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Alma Rittenberry
Alma Rittenberry
Birmingham
native
Alma Rittenberry
was deeply involved in many significant progressive and reform movements in Alabama. She was a member of the
Alabama Equal Suffrage Association
and the
Good Roads Movement
, and pushed for the creation of a "Jackson Highway" connecting Chicago with New Orleans through Alabama along Andrew Jackson's route during the
Creek War of 1813-14
.
Photo courtesy of the Birmingham Public Library