The Alabama Telephone Company was an American independent telephone company in Northwest Alabama, operating in the mid-20th century and serving Pickens County, Fayette County, and the Haleyville area.
[3] In 1954, employees organized under the Communications Workers of America and held a strike for over a year.
In October, following the end of the strike, the exchange in Hamilton, Alabama was reduced to rubble by a dynamite attack.
Alabama Public Service Commission director Bull Connor witnessed the call being answered.
[7][8] According to Gallagher, the motivation to beat AT&T to implementing 9-1-1 came from his father, a fire chief in West Virginia.