On the 67th lap of the 1991 Poulan Pro 500k at Talladega, Chris Gehrke spun in the tri-oval, flipped several times before sliding to a halt.
Mayor Gresham taught mainly elementary age special education students in Talladega, Alabama and Augusta, GA for over 32 years.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Johnson spent the next six years teaching at historically black universities in the deep South, including Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, Dillard University in New Orleans, and Tillotson College in Austin, Texas.
In 1991, Toledo also participated in negotiations during riots at the federal prison in Talladega, Alabama.
More recently, he has been Clerk of the Course at the Rally Finland, the event he won three times himself, and he has also assisted Saab in two racing events; their Saab 900 Talladega Challenge in Alabama in 1996 where several speed records were set, and the 2000 Pikes Peak race, when Per Eklund won in a race-prepped Saab 9-3 Viggen.
Her best-remembered role is probably Rita Ross in Murder at the Vanities (1934), one of the last pre-Code films, in which she sang an ode to marijuana (Sweet Marijuana).
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Robert Bradley grew up in Evergreen, Alabama, and attended school in Talladega at the Alabama School for the Blind.
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After two years of preparation, it signed on the nation's ninth educational television station, WEDM in Munford, serving Talladega.
Besides connecting the cities of Talladega and Pell City, one of the main functions of SR-34 is that serves as one of several routes that leads motorists to and from Talladega Superspeedway, the site of two NASCAR Sprint Cup races.
Alpine, Talladega County, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama
After being fastest in practice in Talladega, his crew chief Todd Parrott was suspended or violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy.
Herman H. Long (1912–1976), American author of race relations studies; president of Talladega College and United Negro College Fund
In 1994, he drove the #27 McDonald's Ford for Junior Johnson and won his first two and so far only career Cup races, at Daytona and Talladega.
He was a member of the first Class of Inductees into the Talladega-Texaco Walk Of Fame.
The #34 team picked up sponsorship from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino at Las Vegas, and had a strong run at Talladega, finishing 7th.
In the spring race at Talladega in 1987, Read was swept up in a massive pileup late in the race, but was uninjured.
WTDR-FM, a radio station (92.7 FM) licensed to Talladega, Alabama