Author: Kahl Montgomery
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Temple Beth-Or, Montgomery, Ala
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Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Author: Temple Beth-Or, Montgomery, Ala
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Matthew Powers Blue
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1588380319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Award The 1878 City Directory of Montgomery, Alabama, included "A Brief History of Montgomery," consisting of a "narrative" and a series of events arranged by the months. Compiled by Matthew Powers Blue, this was the earliest history of a place that already served as the center of Deep South cotton culture and as the first capital of the Confederacy. Contemporary historian Mary Ann Neeley has annotated Blue's history to correct errors and clear up inconsistencies, and added other material on early churches, a genealogy of the colorful Blue family, and a Civil War diary by Blue's sister, Ellen. The book also includes many 19th century photographs.

Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814321881
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 974

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The third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920, beginning with the Jews, slavery, and the Civil War, and concluding with the rise of Reform Judaism as well as the increasing spirit of secularization that characterized emancipated, prosperous, liberal Jewry before it was confronted by a rising tide of American anti-Semitism in the 1920s.

Author: Mary Stanton
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082032857X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Morgan backed her words with action. As a New Deal Democrat, she worked to abolish the poll tax and establish a federal antilynching law. She rarely hesitated to appear in integrated settings, and years before the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, she was regularly confronting bus drivers over their mistreatment of black riders. Morgan's letters had consequences: she and the newspapers that published them were vilified and threatened. Although the trustees of the Montgomery Public Library, where Morgan worked, resisted pressure to fire her, a cross was burned in her yard, and friends, neighbors, former students, and colleagues shunned her.

Author: Jeffrey C. Benton
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603062297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations--military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic. The book also includes seasonal activities--religious and national holidays, fairs, balls, horse racing, and summering at mineral springs. Commercial entertainment, which became more prominent in the late antebellum period, included theater, opera, circuses, and minstrel shows. Historian Jeffrey Benton describes not only those everyday, seasonal, and commercial activities, but also shows how antebellum society debated the moral and philosophical questions of how leisure time should be spent. Woven throughout the book are comparisons between Montgomery and other cities and towns in antebellum America. Although the United States may have been increasingly divided economically, on rural-urban experiences, and of course on the issue of slavery, it seems that antebellum Americans--at least those living in or with easy access to urban areas--shared very similar leisure time activities.

Author: Mary Stanton
Publisher: River City Publishing
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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"In 1955, the majority of Montgomery's Jews confounded Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by ignoring the Bus Boycott. The experience of the Jewish community during its first hundred years shaped its collective response to the Boycott; how the community dealt with this tension is the story of their Southern experience"--Provided by publisher.

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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: Wesley Phillips Newton
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817356320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II. Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II. The war affected every segment of Montgomery society: black and white, rich and poor, male and female, those who fought in Europe and the Pacific and those who stayed on the home front. Newton follows Montgomerians chronologically through the war from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima as they experience patriotism, draft and enlistment, rationing, scarcity drives, and the deaths of loved ones. His use of small vignettes based on personal recollections adds drama and poignancy to the story. Montgomery in the Good War is an important reminder that wars are waged at home as well as abroad and that their impact reverberates well beyond those who fight on the front lines. Those who came of age during the war will recognize themselves in this moving volume. It will also be enlightening to those who have lived in times of relative peace.