B. J. Hollars

B. J. Hollars is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. His most recent book is OpeningtheDoors:TheDesegregationoftheUniversityofAlabamaandtheFightforCivilRightsinTuscaloosa.

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Dispatches from the Drownings

Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction

University of New Mexico Press

In homage to Michael Lesy's cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs reports from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalists with fictional versions, creating a hybrid text complete with facts, lies, and a wide range of blurring in between.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Road South

Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders

University of Alabama Press

Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Thirteen Loops

Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America

University of Alabama Press

A vivid and troubling portrait of violence, lynching, and race relations over a fifty-year period in the state of Alabama.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Opening the Doors

The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa

University of Alabama Press

Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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