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Alabama Women

PORTRAITS OF PERSISTENCE

A Virtual Exhibit Presented by the Alabama Department of Archives & History 

EXHIBIT FILMS

These short films tell compelling stories of the lives and achievements of women

who shaped our state’s history.  

Introduction to Alabama Women: Portraits of Persistence
01:36
Juliette Hampton Morgan, Librarian and Civil Rights Activist
03:16
Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson, Alabama’s First Licensed Female Physician
02:53
Margaret Murray Washington, Educator & Suffragist
02:45
Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, Suffragist
04:04
Bossie O’Brien Hundley, Suffragist
03:22
Coretta Scott King, Civil Rights Activist
03:47
Tallulah Bankhead, Actor and Activist
03:35
Vivian Malone, Civil Rights Activist
03:43

Alabama Department of Archives & History

624 Washington Avenue

Montgomery, Alabama, 36130

archives.alabama.gov

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