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Farming For A Better Future, page 336
2.
DETAILS OF
PLACES OF INTEREST
Acklin Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church
This church is in the community of Berkley in eastern Madison County. The church is present on the 1936 USGS topographic map. During this time period, most of the land surrounding the church was owned by African American farmers. The church property was once owned by Reuben W. Brazelton from 1922-1949 and then by Joseph W. Brazelton (presumably his son) until at least 1986. It is possible that the Brazeltons donated the land for the church.
Alabama A&M University
(Above) William Hooper Councill, Founder and President of Alabama A&M University (Alabama A&M University) (Top) Photograph of Students of Alabama A&M University in Front of the Carnegie Library, Circa 1900 (Huntsville Revisited Facebook Page) (Page Excerpts) 1900 Federal Census of Huntsville, Madison County Showing William H.
Councill, Students, and Teachers at Alabama A&M University (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com)
Located north of downtown Huntsville in
the community of Normal, this university has been pivotal to the education of the African American community at large, not just as an institution of higher learning, but for all levels. Alabama A&M has been
dedicated to the education and welfare of
African Americans since Reconstruction.
William Hooper Councill, a former slave, founded the school and served as its first
president from 1875 to 1908. Although it has gone through many iterations, as the Huntsville State Normal School for
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