Author: Publisher: Heritage Publishing Consultants
ISBN: 9781891647543
Category : Jefferson County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 953
Book Description
The Heritage of Jefferson County, Alabama
Author: Publisher: Heritage Publishing Consultants
ISBN: 9781891647543
Category : Jefferson County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 953
Book Description
Historic Birmingham & Jefferson County
Author: James Ronald BennettPublisher: Historical Publishing Network
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ensley and Tuxedo Junction
Author: David B. FlemingPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738586809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With dreams of building a vast steel production operation, Memphis planter Enoch Ensley founded a city in the wooded valley at the heart of Jefferson County, Alabama. He named the city Ensley, after himself, and established the Ensley Land Company to acquire and develop 4,000 acres for industrial facilities and a town. As field workers left their farms to work in steel mills and businesses sprang up on the valley floor, Ensley became a diverse place of hopes and desires. A strong community of churches, businesses, civic clubs, and neighborhoods developed around the factories and railroads. Jazz music was the social thread of Ensley's African American community, known as Tuxedo Junction. Musicians such as Erskine Hawkins famously mastered the style. The annexation of Ensley into Birmingham established the "Magic City" as the largest and wealthiest in Alabama and the heart of the Southern steel manufacturing economy.
A Walk to Freedom
Author: Marjorie Longenecker WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Birmingham and Jefferson County Alabama
Author: Jefferson County Historical CommissionPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738587301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
From its founding as a steel-making area that rivaled any in the world for quality and quantity, to its present-day role as a leading banking, retail, and medical center for the New South, the rolling, iron-rich land of Jefferson County has been well represented in picture postcards. Roving photographers and those from local studios captured scenes of civic, business, and private life, and made them into postcards that were sent around the world. Birmingham and Jefferson County, Alabama takes the reader on a visual tour of such landmarks as the Tutwiler Hotel, the Empire Building, Rickwood Field, Legion Field, Arlington, and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Explore the beginnings of world-class medical facilities, the rise of the iron and steel industry, and the rich cultural heritage that the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, Greeks, and other ethnic groups brought to the area.
The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill
Author: Helen Shores LeePublisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310336236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district—a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores family lived, earning their neighborhood the nickname “Dynamite Hill.” Due to his work, Shores’ daughter, Barbara, barely survived a kidnapping attempt. Twice, in 1963, Klan members bombed their home, sending Theodora to the hospital with a brain concussion and killing Tasso, the family’s cocker spaniel. The family narrowly escaped a third bombing attempt on their home in the spring of 1965. The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill is an incredible story of a family’s unfair suffering, but also of the Shores’ overcoming. This family’s sacrificial commitment, courage, determination, and triumph inspire us today through this story and the selfless service, work, and lives of Helen Shores Lee and Barbara Sylvia Shores.
A Family Practice
Author: William D. LindseyPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682261271
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century. The thread that binds the stories in this saga is one of blood, of medical vocations passed from fathers to sons and nephews. This study of four generations of Russell doctors is an historical study with a biographical thread running through it. The authors take a wide-ranging look at the meaning of intergenerational vocations and the role of family, the economy, and social issues on the evolution of medical education and practice in the United States.
Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama
Author: John Witherspoon DuBosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Heritage of Blount County, Alabama
Author: Blount County Heritage Book Committee (Blount County, Ala.)Publisher: Heritage Publishing Consultants
ISBN: 9781891647260
Category : Blount County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Author: Ethel Armes