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"Hank Aaron and Willie Mays were both born in Alabama.  Henry Louis (Hank) Aaron was born in Mobile in 1934, and holds the all time home run record, while Willie Mays, one of the greatest players of all time, was born in 1931.",

"The Tuskegee airmen, America’s first African American pilots, were trained in Alabama. They flew an amazing 15,553 sorties and completed 1578 missions and have perhaps the finest record of protecting bombers in history.",

"Russell Cave was used by North America’s earliest prehistoric people.  The cave provided shelter for these bands of migrants for thousands of years, all the way until the time of European explorers.",

"During the Civil War, Alabama succeeded from the Union and was actually the Confederacy’s first capital. Its first president, Jefferson Davis, was sworn in in Alabama, helping the state earn its nicknames - the <em>Cradle of the Confederacy</em> and the <em>Heart of Dixie</em>.",

"The first cardiac surgery performed in the Western Hemisphere was performed in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill sutured a stab wound in a young boy's heart.",

"Rosa Parks may have sparked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement when she refused to relinquish her bus seat on December 1, 1955 in Alabama. After her arrest, Martin Luther King organized one of the largest and most successful protests in US history in Montgomery, Alabama.",

"Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. At about 19 months old Keller went deaf and blind, but through the help of a teacher named Anne Sullivan, went onto to become a renowned speaker and author."];