| There are many famous women who hailed from | | | | in Birmingham, Alabama to Courtney and Richard |
| Alabama. The likes of Helen Keller, Rosa Parks and | | | | Lewis Cox. |
| Courtney Cox bring pride to this wonderful Southern | | | | Courtney Cox, or CeCe as her friends would call her, |
| state. | | | | was raised within Mountain Brook Birmingham, |
| Alabama is not only popular for its scenic attractions | | | | Alabama to a rich suburb. This is where she studied |
| and landscapes. It is also home to a lot of famous | | | | and became a tennis player, swimmer and |
| women who not only excelled in their chosen fields but | | | | cheerleader. |
| made significant changes in the world. Let us get to | | | | Upon graduation, she pursued interior design and |
| know some of them. | | | | architecture at Mount Vernon College for Women. |
| Helen Keller | | | | However, she dropped-out when Ford Modeling |
| Helen Keller was a famous American lecturer, author | | | | Agency convinced her to go to New York for a |
| and activist. She was noted as the first deaf-blind | | | | modeling career. In the midst of her modeling career, |
| person to ever graduate from College. She was born | | | | she also had acting lessons, working hard to improve |
| in Ivy Green Tuscumbia, Alabama to Kate Adams | | | | her accent as well. |
| Keller. Her father was formerly the Confederate | | | | Rosa Parks |
| Army's officer, Captain Arthur Keller. | | | | Rosa Parks is world renowned as an Afro-American |
| Though Helen was born in Alabama, the Keller Family | | | | civil rights activist. She was regarded as "The Mother |
| originated from Germany. | | | | of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement." |
| Helen Keller was born neither deaf nor blind. She could | | | | She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama to a Leona |
| hear and see clearly until she contracted a disease at | | | | Edwards and James McCauley, a teacher and |
| age 19. The doctors referred to it as "an acute | | | | carpenter respectively. Her family had |
| congestion of the stomach and the brain." Nowadays, | | | | Cherokee-Creek, Scots-Irish and African-American |
| it will be more known as meningitis or scarlet fever. | | | | blood. |
| Helen's disease supposedly brings retardation and | | | | In her growing up years, discrimination was very |
| blindness. Although it did not last long, it left Helen blind | | | | rampant. There was the so-called Jim Crow Laws |
| and deaf. She survived through this phase through sign | | | | that segregated the blacks and the whites in virtually all |
| language. | | | | aspects of daily living including public rides. Instead of |
| It was Annie Sullivan, her teacher, who inspired her to | | | | providing separate vehicles for the blacks and the |
| communicate and become world renowned. Sullivan | | | | whites, train and bus companies just enforced strict |
| taught her to talk using a method called Tadoma. | | | | seating arrangements. School buses were not |
| Tadoma is touching the throat and lips of a person to | | | | available to the black students. While the whites |
| understand what is being said. It also involves finger | | | | conveniently rode school buses, blacks were forced to |
| spelling the letter onto a child's palm. Later on, Helen | | | | walk to school. |
| learned the Braille method. She used it for reading | | | | In Montgomery Alabama in December 1955, Rosa |
| English, French, Greek, German and Latin languages. | | | | Parks disobeyed a bus driver named James Blake |
| As an author, Helen Keller was outspoken and | | | | who was supposedly ordering her to make room and |
| well-traveled, particularly opposing the threats of war. | | | | give up her seat for a white passenger. Although there |
| She became world renowned through her dramatic | | | | have been other cases of civil disobedience, it was |
| depiction of the film and play "The Miracle Worker." | | | | Rosa Park's action that sparked and triggered the |
| She campaigned and took a stand for the worker's | | | | Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| rights, socialism, women's suffrage and various other | | | | Her act of defiance brought about the Modern Civil |
| progressive causes. | | | | Rights Movement, having her as their international icon |
| Courteney Cox | | | | of resistance to racial segregation. Later on, she |
| Courtney Cox is a famous American film producer, | | | | collaborated and organized with other civil rights |
| actress and model. She starred in popular films like | | | | leaders, such as the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. She |
| Sitcom Friends, Scream Film Series and Dirt among | | | | even helped launch his national prominence to the Civil |
| others. | | | | Rights Movement. |
| She belonged to a rich Southern family. She was born | | | | |