Beyond the Book

In 2019, The Alabama Bicentennial Commission African American Heritage Committee published The Future Emerges from the Past: Celebrating 200 Years of Alabama African American History and Culture. This book highlights the history, people, events, institutions, and movements that contributed to the Great State of Alabama, the nation, and world during the state’s first 200 years.

The Alabama African American History Beyond the Book website continues the journey and goes beyond what could be included in the book’s 244 pages.

On a monthly basis, this site will not only highlight past Alabama African American history makers and events, it will also contain present day icons, unsung sheroes/heroes, and current events.

Short articles along with links to videos, photos, reference material, and additional information will be uploaded monthly for all to enjoy.

The website’s goal is the same as the book’s, to inspire the young and young at heart to dream big and never allow obstacles to stop their march toward achieving those dreams.

Beyond the Book
In 2019, The Alabama Bicentennial Commission African American Heritage Committee published The Future Emerges from the Past: Celebrating 200 Years of Alabama African American History and Culture. This book highlights the history, people, events, institutions, and movements that contributed to the Great State of Alabama, the nation, and world during the state’s first 200 years.

The Alabama African American History Beyond the Book website continues the journey and goes beyond what could be included in the book’s 244 pages.

On a monthly basis, this site will not only highlight past Alabama African American history makers and events, it will also contain present day icons, unsung sheroes/heroes, and current events.

Short articles along with links to videos, photos, reference material, and additional information will be uploaded monthly for all to enjoy.

The website’s goal is the same as the book’s, to inspire the young and young at heart to dream big and never allow obstacles to stop their march toward achieving those dreams.

 

James Earl McLeod

James Earl McLeod was born in Dothan, Alabama on July 29, 1944 and was the second of five children of James Clarence (JC) and H. Earline Jackson McLeod.

McLeod was educated at Carver High School in the Dothan City School System and entered Morehouse College at age 16.

While at Morehouse, he soared academically and for two years was able to study abroad in Vienna, Austria with the Institute of European Studies at the University of Vienna. During that time, and shortly after graduating from Morehouse in 1966 with a degree in German and chemistry, he took German studies and did his graduate work as a National Defense Education Act Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Rice University, Houston, Texas.

James Earl McLeod
James Earl McLeod

James Earl McLeod was born in Dothan, Alabama on July 29, 1944 and was the second of five children of James Clarence (JC) and H. Earline Jackson McLeod.

McLeod was educated at Carver High School in the Dothan City School System and entered Morehouse College at age 16.

While at Morehouse, he soared academically and for two years was able to study abroad in Vienna, Austria with the Institute of European Studies at the University of Vienna. During that time, and shortly after graduating from Morehouse in 1966 with a degree in German and chemistry, he took German studies and did his graduate work as a National Defense Education Act Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Rice University, Houston, Texas.

James Earl McLeod
This Monith in African American History
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Troy Hicks
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