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Alabama Hall of Fame

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ16158766 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Alabama Hall of Fame was established by Act of Alabama No. 646 (1951) to recognize "worthy citizens of the state who rendered outstanding service or who won fame on account of their achievements as to make them exceptional in the history of Alabama". Its membership consists of people considered to be instrumental to the history of the state of Alabama, as selected by a nine-member board. The board was dissolved in 1990. The Hall of Fame plaques are located at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alabama Hall of Fame” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.