OLLI of Greater Birmingham presents Alabama’s Long Road to Becoming a Territory with instructor:  Instructor: Ed Bridges, author and Director Emeritus, Alabama Department of Archives and History.  One of a series of OLLI programs related to Alabama’s Bicentennial.

By the time Alabama became a territory, it already had witnessed enough history to fill textbooks.  We will review the rich history that preceded statehood, including early Indian history, Alabama Indians and European colonizers; the Creek Indians and the emerging United States;  creation of the Mississippi Territory; settlements in the Alabama portion of the Mississippi Territory; rising Creek anger and the Creek War; and the “Alabama fever” land rush.