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    William Hooper Councill (July 12, 1848 – 1909) was an American former slave and the first president of Huntsville Normal School, which is today Alabama...
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    William Hooper Councill Memorial Park. The first public school for African Americans in Huntsville, it was named for William Hooper Councill who founded...
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    Alabama's first Lieutenant Governor. Councill Training School, which eventually became William Hooper Councill High School, was established as the first...
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    National Register of Historic Places. Teacher and schoolmaster William Hooper Councill won approval for his plan for the Huntsville State Normal School...
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    29, 1900, after they had settled in Florence. Around that time, William Hooper Councill, the president of State Agricultural and Mechanical College for...
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    relatives, but he returned to Huntsville, Alabama, to complete William Hooper Councill High School. He attended Knoxville College and Alabama A&M College...
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  • 1991), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League William Hooper Councill - Former slave and the first president of Huntsville Normal School...
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  • Livingstone College, and William Hooper Councill. Articles included: December 1898: The Educated Negro and Menial Pursuits] by William Scarborough July 1898:...
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    American Civil War ended, he attended school and graduated from William Hooper Councill High School. Scruggs attended Central Alabama College in Birmingham...
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    same year to erect the Councill Domestic Sciences Building on the campus, named after the college's founder William Hooper Councill, an educator who was...
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  • Royal – Bullock County 1867 Henry Stokes – Dallas County 1867 William Hooper Councill – assistant engrossing clerk in the Alabama Legislature 1872, 1874...
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  • United States (1969–1972) William J. Cabaniss, United States Ambassador to Czech Republic (2004–2006) William Hooper Councill, black educator and first...
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  • William Hooper Councill (center), lawyer, editor and founder of Huntsville Normal School (later Alabama A&M University), posing with some of his students...
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  • Residence, Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge February 2, 2001 Triana 1941 NRHP 49 William Hooper Councill High School February 2, 2001 Huntsville 1927–53...
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