Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biracial federal jury acquitted Christopher Lynn Johnson, the son of a black activist, of charges that he burned down Alabama's Randolph County High School last year. The school was gutted following the furor that erupted when the school's white principal, Hulond Humphries, unsuccessfully tried to cancel a prom because of interracial dating. The defense suggested that Humphries may have been the real arsonist--an accusation the principal strongly and tearfully denied on the stand...
...Southern U.S. last week. The storm grew with surprising speed from a mild tropical depression to the most powerful hurricane of the season that was one of the worst stretches of hurricane formation on record. If Opal had struck a few hours earlier, or hit New Orleans, or Mobile, Alabama, or another big coastal city, it could have been one of the deadliest as well...
...losses were estimated at $2 billion, making it the fourth most costly natural disaster in U.S. history. Opal utterly demolished much of a 140-mile stretch of coastline between Mobile and Panama City, Florida, including some of America's most exquisite beaches. It killed people with falling trees in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. But no major population areas caught the full force of its winds, and some towns directly in its path managed to escape almost unscathed...
...least one person, a 76-year-old woman, was killed when a spun-off tornado destroyed her mobile home. Opal is the ninth and by far the strongest hurricane of the season, one of the roughest ever. State officials compared it Hurricane Camille, which killed 256 people in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana when it hit the Gulf Coast in 1969. Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict
...addition, the Southern Baptist Church was given an award for compiling figures on how many people in different areas in Alabama would go to hell, Abrahams said...