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    Hollis Crossroads is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 665 as of the...
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  • Hollis Speedway is a 0.23-mile dirt oval motor racetrack in Heflin, Alabama. The track opened in 1979 and operated continuously until 1998, reopening...
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    1972 defeat. Heflin (county seat) Edwardsville Fruithurst Ranburne Hollis Crossroads Abel Abernathy Ai Arbacoochee Chulafinnee Hopewell Liberty Hill Muscadine...
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    the highest mountain in the state. It leaves the forest and enters Hollis Crossroads, junctioning with SR 9. It enters Randolph County. The route has no...
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  • McIntosh Road (category Streets in Alabama)
    at a pass some miles north. It travels through the area of modern Hollis Crossroads and crosses the Tallapoosa River at an Okfuskee village, continuing...
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  • 25, 1987. The second part, Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985, chronicles the time period from the national emergence of Malcolm...
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    Route 9 (SR 9) is one of the longest state highways in the U.S. state of Alabama. From the Florida state line north to Montgomery, SR 9 is the unsigned...
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  • communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of Alabama also includes information on the number of counties in which the place...
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    County.org Hollis, Tim (2006). Glass Bottom Boats & Mermaid Tails: Florida's Tourist Springs. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Book. p. 60. Hollis, Tim (2006)...
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    census-designated places in Alabama. List of census-designated places List of cities and towns in Alabama List of unincorporated communities in Alabama "Geographic Terms...
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  • Easter, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio) (b. 1960) Wilburn Hollis, 83, football player (Iowa Hawkeyes) (b. 1940) Alonzo Johnson, 60, football...
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  • Alex Haley's Queen (category Television shows set in Alabama)
    series begins on Forks of Cypress, a plantation near Florence in northern Alabama. James Jackson Jr., the son of the plantation owner, and Easter, a slave...
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    the turn of the millennium, scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins have re-examined Uncle Tom's Cabin in what has been called a "serious...
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    Carroll at the hands of young white socialite William Zantzinger. "Ballad of Hollis Brown" and "North Country Blues" addressed despair engendered by the breakdown...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
    and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he...
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    Coretta Scott King (category Baptists from Alabama)
    musical talent and singing voice. As a child, Bernice attended the local Crossroads School; her formal education ended with the fourth grade. Bernice's older...
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    Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9053-4. Lawson, Steven F. (2003). Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle. University Press of...
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    ISBN 978-0-253-00732-2. "Collection: Papers of Isabel Dowden Johnson Hiss, 1907-2000 | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved January 31, 2022. "Isabel...
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  • The 1955 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1955 college football season...
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  • continued into the late 1970s; some shows continued into the 1990s. Author Tim Hollis documented about 1,400 local children's shows in a 2002 book, Hi There,...
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  • 2002 (23rd) Madonna (tie) Swept Away Amber Leighton Britney Spears (tie) Crossroads Lucy Wagner Angelina Jolie Life or Something Like It Lanie Kerrigan Jennifer...
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    North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807895597. Goudsouzian, Aram. Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear. (New...
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    70 African American voters marched to the Dallas County Courthouse in Alabama to register to vote following a court order allowing them to do so. However...
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    http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/ "Parks and Recreation: Harlem at a Crossroads in the Summer of '69". Poverty & Race. Poverty and Race Research Action...
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    active in the civil rights movement. On October 7, 1963, he came to Selma, Alabama, and spoke for two hours on a public platform two days before the voter...
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  • James Orange (category Activists from Birmingham, Alabama)
    people into the movement. James Edward Orange was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1960s. Orange, at over 6 feet...
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  • philanthropist (born 1938) Robert Fano, Italian-born computer scientist (born 1917) Hollis L. Harris, businessman (born 1931) Carolyn See, author and educator (born...
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  • - F E B R U A R Y 2 If Only For The Hatchery Wingtip Sloat - Mark Hollis Mark Hollis - 3 Blues Brothers 2000 Various Artists Soundtrack Ready for the World...
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    Diego Rivera in 1933 and worked as his assistant on his mural Man at the Crossroads at Rockefeller Plaza. The two had an affair which caused a rift between...
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    Last Night". Brooklyn Eagle. 12 December 1895.. Mentions 1894 split from Hollis. See also full article and sketch of school:"Brooklyn Eagle" (PDF). 12 December...
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