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Playing for Power
Black Resistance in Amateur Basketball and Football in Jim Crow Virginia
University of Alabama Press
Reveals the role of amateur Black football and basketball in Virginia before integration as a form of resistance to white supremacy
City of Hope, City of Rage
Miami, 1968–1994
University of Alabama Press
Examines Miami’s turbulent transformation from a segregated vacation destination to a global, multicultural metropolis
Far East, Down South
Asians in the American South
Edited by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki; Introduction by David M Reimers; Preface by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki
University of Alabama Press
Offers a collection of ten insightful essays that illuminate the little-known history and increasing presence of Asian immigrants in the American southeast
Here I Stand
The Life and Legacy of John Beecher
University of Alabama Press
Biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society
The Greater Good
Media, Family Removal, and TVA Dam Construction in North Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Examines the role of press coverage in promoting the mission of the TVA, facilitating family relocation, and formulating the historical legacy of the New Deal
In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
University of Alabama Press
How Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.
The Politics of Trust
Reubin Askew and Florida in the 1970s
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the extraordinary political career of Reubin Askew, governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979, under whose unorthodox leadership Florida undertook numerous successful reform initiatives
The Great Melding
War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism
University of Alabama Press
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century.
This Bright Light of Ours
Stories from the Voting Rights Fight
By Maria Gitin; Foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin
University of Alabama Press
Combining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965
Stand Up for Alabama
Governor George Wallace
University of Alabama Press
Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace’s career as a national figure, Stand Up for Alabama provides a detailed, comprehensive, and analytical study of Wallace’s political life that emphasizes his activities and their impact within the state of Alabama. Jeff Frederick examines the development of policy during the Wallace administrations and documents relationships with his constituents in ways that go beyond racial politics. He also analyzes the connections between Wallace’s career and Alabamians’ understanding of their history, sense of morality, and class system.
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
University of Alabama Press
This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform.
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie illuminates the dual role of historian and public advocate in modern America. In a time when the nation’s eyes have been focused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita onto the vulnerability and dire condition of poor people in the South, the applicability of research, teaching, and activism for this voiceless element seems all the more relevant.
Alabama in the Twentieth Century
By Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press
An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context
Before Brown
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South
Edited by Glenn Feldman; Foreword by Patricia Sullivan
University of Alabama Press
Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954
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