Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publications of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History
Author: History of Alabama
Author: Albert James PickettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
These Rugged Days
Author: John S. SledgePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817319603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An accessibly written and dramatic account of Alabama's role in the Civil War. The Civil War has left indelible marks on Alabama's land, culture, economy, and people. Despite its lasting influence, this wrenching story has been too long neglected by historians preoccupied by events elsewhere. In These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War, John S. Sledge provides a long overdue and riveting narrative of Alabama's wartime saga. Focused on the conflict's turning points within the state's borders, this book charts residents' experiences from secession's heady early days to its tumultuous end, when 75,000 blue-coated soldiers were on the move statewide. Sledge details this eventful history using an impressive array of primary and secondary materials, including official records, diaries, newspapers, memoirs, correspondence, sketches, and photographs. He also highlights such colorful personalities as Nathan Bedford Forrest, the "Wizard of the Saddle"; John Pelham, the youthful Jacksonville artillerist who was shipped home in an iron casket with a glass faceplate; Gus Askew, a nine-year-old Barbour County slave who vividly recalled the day the Yankees marched in; and Augusta Jane Evans, the young novelist who was given a gold pen by a daring blockade runner. Sledge offers a refreshing take on Alabama's contributions to the Civil War that will intrigue anyone who is interested in learning more about the state's war efforts. His narrative is a dramatic account that will be enjoyed by lay readers as well as students and scholars of Alabama and the Civil War. These Rugged Days is an enthralling tale of action, courage, pride, and tragedy, making clear the relevance of many of the Civil War's decisive moments for the way Alabamians live today.
A Walk to Freedom
Author: Marjorie Longenecker WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Shades Cahaba
Author: Shawn WrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9781735582269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Marion to Montgomery
Author: Joe CaverPublisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 9781588383600
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
One of the earliest public historically black universities, Alabama State University is a vital source of African American excellence situated directly in the Heart of Dixie. From Marion to Montgomery tells the little-known story of the university's origin as the Reconstruction-era Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama. How did a little school in Lowndes County become one of the world's most renowned HBCUs?
Civil War Alabama
Author: Christopher Lyle McIlwainPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
In fascinating detail, Civil War Alabama reveals the forgotten breadth of political opinions and loyalties among white Alabamians during the antebellum period. The book offers a major reevaluation of Alabama's secession crisis and path to war and destruction.
Daughter of the Boycott
Author: Karen Gray HoustonPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641603062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in a confrontation after he tried to board a city bus. Thomas Gray, who had played football with Hilliard when they were kids, was outraged by the unjustifiable shooting. Gray protested, eventually staging a major downtown march to register voters, and standing up to police brutality. Five years later, he led another protest, this time against unjust treatment on the city's segregated buses. On the front lines of what became the Montgomery bus boycott, Gray withstood threats and bombings alongside his brother, Fred D. Gray, the young lawyer who represented Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the rarely mentioned Claudette Colvin, a plaintiff in the case that forced Alabama to desegregate its buses. An incredible story of family in the pivotal years of the civil rights movement, Daughter of the Boycott is the reflection of Thomas Gray's daughter, award-winning broadcast journalist Karen Gray Houston, on how her father's and uncle's selfless actions changed the nation's racial climate and opened doors for her and countless other African Americans.
The United States Department of Commerce Publications, Catalog and Index Supplement
Author: United States. Department of CommercePublisher:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.