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Leah Rawls Atkins praises Mary Ann Neeley’s Works of Matthew Blue, Montgomery’s First Historian

From the Alabama Review: Anyone researching a nineteenth-century Alabama topic that touches Montgomery must consult Matthew Blue. Before the appearance of Mary Ann Neeley’s edition of Blue’s works, this was difficult because copies were rare and fragile. Neeley’s edited and annotated volume of Blue’s works should be in major research libraries in the nation and included in most of Alabama’s public and academic collections. Collectors of Alabamiana will welcome this volume …

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Civil Rights Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr. Dies

Chuck Morgan, 78, one of the most colorful and powerful legal advocates for civil rights in the 1960s, died January 8, 2009, of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He “died peacefully at his Destin, Fla., home,” the local newspaper reported. He was a larger-than-life personality who not only recognized the injustices in society but did something about them. NewSouth’s author Bob Zellner wrote movingly about Chuck in The Wrong Side of Murder Creek

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Black Belt civil rights pioneer Hulett passes

John Hulett, the first African American sheriff and later probate judge in Lowndes County, Alabama, has died at age 78. He was a co-founder of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, whose black panther ballot symbol was later adopted by the founders of the Black Panthers.

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