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Sumter County School District (Alabama)
Sumter County School District is a school district operating public schools in Sumter County, Alabama; its headquarters are in Livingston. History In 1968 the district's student body was 16.4% white. At the time the county had fourteen public schools, three of which were majority white. White people reacted to the ''Lee v. Macon County Board of Education'' case. By 1970,Fifteen Years Ago... Rural Alabama Revisited " . Clearinghouse Publication Number 82. December 1983. p. 77 or p. 85 (PDF document p. 84/163) Sumter County Schools had been ordered to de facto deseg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School District
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. North America United States In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, which usually operate several schools, and the largest urban and suburban districts operate hundreds of schools. While practice varies significantly by state (and in some cases, within a state), most American school districts operate as independent local governmental units under a grant of authority and within geographic limits created by state law. The executive and legislative power over locally controlled policies and operations of an independent school district are, in most cases, held by a school district's board of education. Depending on state law, members of a local board of education (often referred to informally as a school board) may be elected, appointed by a political office holder, serve ex officio, or a combination of any of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have no unincorporated areas at all or these are very rare: typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or List of uninhabited regions, uninhabited areas. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local government in Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVUA-CD
WVUA-CD (channel 7) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to both Tuscaloosa and Northport, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the classic television network Cozi TV. Owned by the University of Alabama, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities within the Digital Media Center at Bryant–Denny Stadium on the University's campus in Tuscaloosa. As WVUA-CD's broadcasting radius does not reach the entire Birmingham–Tuscaloosa– Anniston market, the station's programming is simulcast to the remainder of the area on full-power satellite WVUA (channel 23), which is also licensed to Tuscaloosa with its transmitter located atop Red Mountain, near the southern edge of Birmingham. In addition to full-power WVUA, WVUA-CD's signal is relayed on low-power digital translator WDVZ-CD (channel 3) in Greensboro. Overview Despite being owned by the University of Alabama System, the station is financially independent from the University of Alabama. WVUA is lic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Belt (region Of Alabama)
The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region's rich, black soil, much of it in the soil order Vertisols. The term took on an additional meaning in the 19th century, when the region was developed for cotton plantation agriculture, in which the workers were enslaved African Americans. After the American Civil War, many freedmen stayed in the area as sharecroppers and tenant farmers, continuing to comprise a majority of the population in many of these counties. The physical geography of the "Black Belt," as related to the history of this cotton-dependent region, refers to a much larger region of the Southern United States, stretching from Delaware to Texas but centered on the Black Belt of uplands areas of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. In the Antebellum and Jim Crow eras, the white elite of the Black Belt dominated Alabama state politics well into the 1960s, a trend that has continued to the current day. As i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panola, Sumter County, Alabama
Panola is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 144. Panola is north-northeast of Geiger. Panola has a post office with ZIP code 35477. The community's name comes from the Choctaw word ''ponola'', which means "cotton". Demographics As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 144 people living in the CDP. The racial makeup of the CDP was 100% Black or African American Education Sumter County School District operates public schools, including Sumter Central High School. North Sumter Junior High School was previously in operation near, but not in, the Panola CDP. The Sumter County school board voted to close the school in 2018. Notable people *Bill Bruton (1925 – 1995), Major League Baseball center fielder who was the National League stolen base champion in 1953, 1954, and 1955 *Boston Blackie (1943 – 1993), Chicago blues Chicago blues is a form of blues music de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York, Alabama
York is a city in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. Founded around 1838 after the merging of two communities, Old Anvil and New York Station, the latter a station on a stagecoach line. The rail came through in the 1850s and later, the "New" was dropped from York Station in 1861. With the discovery that another community in Alabama bore that name, the "Station" was dropped and York was formally incorporated on April 6, 1881. At the 2010 census the population was 2,538, down from 2,854 in 2000. From 1920 to 1980, it was the largest town in the county. Since 1990, it has been the second largest city behind the county seat of Livingston. Geography York is located at . According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (0.28%) is water. Demographics 2000 census At the 2000 census there were 2,854 people in 1,046 households, including 689 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 1,209 housing units at an average d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBHM
WBHM (90.3 MHz) is a non-commercial public FM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama. The station is licensed to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where it maintains its radio studios on 11th Street South. WBHM features programming from National Public Radio, American Public Media and Public Radio Exchange. On weekdays, it carries news and information programming, with classical music heard late nights, seven days a week. Weekend programming includes public radio shows such as ''Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me'', '' On The Media'', ''The Moth Radio Hour'' and '' Travel with Rick Steves'', as well as Bluegrass music and New Age music. WBHM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 32,000 watts. The transmitter is in Vulcan Park, amid towers for other Birmingham-area FM and TV stations. It broadcasts using HD Radio technology. On a digital subchannel, it operates the Alabama Radio Reading Service for blind and visually impaired listeners. Articles from the '' Birmingham News'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba, Alabama
Cuba is a town in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 346, down from 363 in 2000. History The Cuba post office existed prior to 1850, with nothing in the present-day area of the town of Cuba but wilderness. The first people to live in this site were a slaveowner named Mr. R.A. Clay, who moved from Autauga County with his family and approximately 100 slaves in 1852, and purchased all the land which later made up the town of Cuba. By 1861, the town was a thriving farming industry and had a sizable truck-crop enterprise. Also during this time, the Southern Railroad was being built. Clay donated land for the railroad right-of-way, built mainly by the people he enslaved. As the town was settled, the post office became known as Cuba Station. The Town of Cuba was incorporated in 1890 with Dr. A.L. Vaughan as its first mayor. In 1870, Mr. Clay sold to Mr. Warner Lewis half of the town and divided it into lots, with two set aside for the building o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livingston High School (Alabama)
Livingston High School was a senior high school in Livingston, Alabama. It was a part of the Sumter County School District. The first African-American students were admitted in 1966. In 1968 97.8% of the students were white and 84.3% of the teachers were white. Due to white flight, the percentage of white students dropped to .3% by 1970, as only four white students were enrolled, and about 33% of the teachers were white.Fifteen Years Ago... Rural Alabama Revisited " The United States Commission on Civil Rights. Clearinghouse Publication Number 82. December 1983. p. 77 or p. 85 (PDF document p. 84/163) Many white students had been placed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumter County High School
Sumter County High School was a senior high school in York, Alabama. It was a part of the Sumter County School District. In 1968 the student body was 99.1% white and 90.1% of the teachers were white. Due to white flight White flight or white exodus is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States. They refer ..., no white students remained by 1970, and about 33% of the teachers were white.Fifteen Years Ago... Rural Alabama Revisited " The United States Commission on Civil Rights. Clearingho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumter Central High School
Sumter Central High School is a senior high school in an unincorporated area of Sumter County, Alabama, between Livingston and York. It has of space. It is a part of the Sumter County School District. The school opened in 2011 as a merger of Livingston High School and Sumter County High School Sumter County High School was a senior high school in York, Alabama. It was a part of the Sumter County School District. In 1968 the student body was 99.1% white and 90.1% of the teachers were white. Due to white flight White flight or white .... It initially had 760 students. The impetus to merge came because of a declining population - the county had a total of 838 high school students divided between the two schools in 2009 - as well as the condition of Sumter County High and budget issues. Sumter Central High School has a predominantly African American student body and most are from economically disadvantaged families. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumter County, Alabama
Sumter County is a county located in the west central portion of Alabama."ACES Winston County Office" (links/history), Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES), 2007, webpageACES-Sumter At the 2020 census, the population was 12,345. Its county seat is Livingston. Its name is in honor of General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina. History Sumter County was established on December 18, 1832. From 1797 to 1832, Sumter County was part of the Choctaw Nation, which was made up of four main villages. The first settlers in Sumter County were French explorers who had come north from Mobile. They built and settled at Fort Tombecbee, near the modern-day town of Epes. In 1830, with the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Choctaw Indians ceded the land that is now Sumter County to the government. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.0%) is covered by water. It is intersected by the Noxubee River. Major highways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
