To do so, Watkins will have to have better luck than he did a few years ago when he sat on the board of Alabama State University.

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Hugo Black grew up in Alabama, attended his state university's law school, and used membership in the Ku Klux Klan as a means to a swift political rise.

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They were killed in 1480 by raiding Islamist forces that were seeking to take over Europe, the Vatican website said, quoting Donald Prudlo, an associate professor of medieval history at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama.

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General Robert Kennedy and their staffs planned, schemed, pressured the state of Alabama to let two Afro-American students attend summer school at the University of Alabama.

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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- When the "moon dust" had settled Saturday, teams from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, and Graff Career Center in Springfield, Missouri, were winners in the sixth Annual "Great Moonbuggy Race" in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Other schools that have been confirmed to be part of the 14: Alabama, University of Missouri, University of Texas, University of Florida, University of Tennessee and Ohio State University.

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Other schools that have been confirmed to be among the 14: Alabama, University of Missouri, University of Texas, University of Florida, University of Tennessee and Ohio State University, and Nebraska.

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