TROY – Small businesses can learn more about developing business proposals for the federal government in a Troy University-sponsored program in Enterprise.

“The Government Proposal Process from an Industry Perspective” is slated for 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. October 18 at the Enterprise-Coffee-Geneva Economic Development Corporation in Yancey Parker Industrial Park. The program is provided by the Alabama Small Business Development Network, and TROY’s Small Business Development Center and Procurement Technical Assistance Center.

“This program will explore several critical concerns regarding manufacturing proposals for federal contracting opportunities,” said Judy Callin, a Senior Consultant for Troy’s Small Business Development Center and Procurement Technical Assistance Center.

October 1-4, 1867: For the first time in Alabama history, African Americans vote in a statewide election. About 70,000 black men, the majority of voters in the election, called for a constitutional convention and elected an overwhelmingly Republican set of convention delegates, including 18 blacks. That convention produced Alabama's fourth constitution.

Information Source: Alabama Department of Archives and History

September 30, 1865: Alabama's Constitutional Convention of 1865 adjourns. Although the ninety-nine delegates repealed Alabama's 1861 Ordinance of Secession and declared slavery illegal, they produced an essentially conservative document. Blacks were not given the right to vote, representation was based on the white population only, and the constitution was ratified without a vote by the people.