Many of you have suggested famous Alabama women that we should have included on our Women's History Month flyer.
In an attempt to display a more comprehensive appreciation towards our Alabama women, here is a list of some more famous Alabama females.
Tallulah Bankhead, actress (Jasper)
Janice Rogers Brown, Judge- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Luverne)
Brett Butler, comedian (Montgomery)
Nell Carter; actress, singer (Birmingham)
Courteney Cox, actress (Mountain Brook)
Angela Davis, activist (Birmingham)
Mahala Ashley Dickerson, lawyer (Montgomery)
Deidre Downs, 2005 Miss America (Pelham)
Fannie Flagg, author and actress (Birmingham)
Louise Fletcher, actress (Birmingham)
Betty Lou Gerson, voice actress, "Cruella de Vil" of One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Birmingham)
Mary Katharine Ham; journalist, video blogger, Fox News contributor (Montgomery)
Mia Hamm, soccer star (Selma)
Emmylou Harris, singer (Birmingham)
Alexis Herman, former Secretary of Labor, (Mobile)
Sylvia Hitchcock, Miss USA and Miss Universe 1967 (Tuscaloosa)
Linda Howard, romance writer (Gadsden)
Kate Jackson, actress (Birmingham)
Katherine Jackson, mother of Jackson 5 (Barbour County)
Mae C. Jemison, astronaut (Decatur)
Helen Keller, writer (Tuscumbia)
Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (Monroeville)
Zora Neale Hurston, author (Notasulga)
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist (Tuskegee)
Paula Poundstone, comedian (Huntsville)
Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State (Birmingham)
Marie Rudisill, aka "The Fruitcake Lady", Truman Capote's aunt (Monroeville)
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, writer (Montgomery)
Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader (Marion)
Toni Tennille, musician (Montgomery)
Cynthia Tucker, columnist and editor (Monroeville)
Margaret Walker, poet, author (Birmingham)
Dinah Washington, singer (Tuscaloosa)
Heather Whitestone, 1995 Miss America (Dothan)
Barbara Wiedemann, poet and English professor (Montgomery)
Kathryn Tucker Windham, storyteller and author (Dallas County)
Tammy Wynette, country singer (Red Bay)
If you would like to learn more about any of these women, you can go to search on google for lots more information.
For the rest of this month, we will now focus on women and the USPS.
