Associated Press - October 26, 2009 8:34 AM ET

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Five Alabama women, including Judson College artist-in-residence Billie Jean Young, will be inducted into the Southern Rural Black Women's Hall of Fame next month.

Young founded and directed the Drama Project-Child Abuse Project, which uses improvisational drama to help women and children identify and respond to abuse.

Carrie Johnson of Choctaw County, who spent more than six decades as an advocate for civil and human rights, is also among the inductees.

The other nominees from Alabama - Gwendolyn Patton, Earnestine Edwards-Williams and Arzula Johnson - are also civil rights advocates. Patton, who worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in her college years, established 1 of the first civil rights archives in the U.S. at Trenholm State Technical College.

Information from: The Tuscaloosa News, http://www.tuscaloosanews.com

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