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Author : Alabama Power Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Telling the World about Alabama written by Alabama Power Company and published by . This book was released on 192? with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Lacefield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976930419
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks written by Jim Lacefield and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780241339466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.
Author : Kathryn H. Braund
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817359303
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Old Federal Road in Alabama written by Kathryn H. Braund and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama's development Forged through the territory of the Creek Nation by the United States federal government, the Federal Road was developed as a communication artery linking the east coast of the United States with Louisiana. Its creation amplified already tense relationships between the government, settlers, and the Creek Nation, culminating in the devastating Creek War of 1813–1814, and thereafter it became the primary avenue of immigration for thousands of Alabama settlers. Central to understanding Alabama’s territorial and early statehood years, the Federal Road was both a physical and symbolic thoroughfare that cut a swath of shattering change through the land and cultures it traversed. The road revolutionized Alabama’s expansion, altering the course of its development by playing a significant role in sparking a cataclysmic war, facilitating unprecedented American immigration, and enabling an associated radical transformation of the land itself. The first half of The Old Federal Road in Alabama: An Illustrated Guide offers a narrative history that includes brief accounts of the construction of the road, the experiences of historic travelers, and descriptions of major changes to the road over time. The authors vividly reconstruct the course of the road in detail and make use of a wealth of well-chosen illustrations. Along the way they give attention to the very terrain it traversed, bringing to life what traveling the road must have been like and illuminating its story in a way few others have ever attempted. The second half of the volume is divided into three parts—Eastern, Central, and Southern—and serves as a modern traveler’s guide to the Federal Road. This section includes driving tours and maps, highlighting historical sites and surviving portions of the old road and how to visit them.
Author : Angela Jackson-Brown
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785240454
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)
Download or read book When Stars Rain Down written by Angela Jackson-Brown and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s—and then the Klan descends. A moving story that confronts America’s tragic past, When Stars Rain Down is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. The summer of 1936 in Parsons, Georgia, is unseasonably hot, and Opal Pruitt senses a nameless storm brewing. She hopes this foreboding feeling won’t overshadow her upcoming 18th birthday or the annual Founder’s Day celebration in just a few weeks. She and her Grandma Birdie work as housekeepers for the white widow Miss Peggy, and Opal desperately wants some time to be young and carefree with her cousins and friends. But when the Ku Klux Klan descends on Opal’s neighborhood, the tight-knit community is shaken in every way possible. Parsons’s residents—both Black and white—are forced to acknowledge the unspoken codes of conduct in their post-Reconstruction era town. To complicate matters, Opal finds herself torn between two unexpected romantic interests—the son of her pastor, Cedric Perkins, and the white grandson of the woman she works for, Jimmy Earl Ketchums. Faced with love, loss, and a harsh awakening to an ugly world, Opal holds tight to her family and faith—and the hope for change. “When Stars Rain Down is so powerful, timely, and compelling . . . an important and beautifully written must-read of a novel.” —Silas House, author of Southernmost 2021 Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction – Finalist Stand-alone novel Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Author : Shawn Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735582269
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Shades Cahaba written by Shawn Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Watt Key
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429987650
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Alabama Moon written by Watt Key and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Alabama Moon, the basis for the film of the same name starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman. For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand; he's become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies, he adapts his wilderness survival skills and learns to survive in the outside world, and even, perhaps, make his home there. This title has Common Core connections. Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author : Harry Mell Ayers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Telling the World about Anniston, Alabama written by Harry Mell Ayers and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Electric Light and Power written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judy Reene Singer
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496709462
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)
Download or read book In the Shadow of Alabama written by Judy Reene Singer and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estranged daughter returns home to discover her father’s WWII history in a “beautifully written” novel of family rifts and the burdens of racism (Historical Novel Society). Rachel Fleischer has good reasons not to be at her father’s deathbed. Foaling season is at hand and her horses are becoming restless. But her horse manager, Malachi—more of a father to Rachel than Marty ever was—convinces her to go. When a stranger at her father’s funeral delivers an odd gift and an apology, Rachel is drawn into the epic story of her father’s World War II experience and the scandal that would cast a shadow on his life. As she learns about his time as a Jewish sergeant in charge of a platoon of black soldiers in 1940s Alabama, she finally begins to free herself from the past and choose a life waiting in the wings. “Prepare for Singer to keep you up all night ricocheting between a present day horse farm, family traumas, and the unthinkable racism in the military during WWII. The long arm of war travels through generations in this emotional drama.” —New York Times–bestselling author Jacqueline Sheehan
Author : Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625490
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Hammer and Hoe written by Robin D. G. Kelley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The World's Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.
Author : Kimberley Mangun
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781433148026
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940-1975 written by Kimberley Mangun and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This cultural biography tells the story of Birmingham World editor Emory O. Jackson. During his 35-year career in Alabama, he waged numerous sustained civil-rights campaigns for the franchise, equal educational opportunities, and justice for the victims of police brutality and bombings. The semiweekly newspaper was central to his advocacy. Jackson wrote editorials and columns that documented injustices and urged legislative and legal action in an effort to secure civil rights for Black Alabamians. His body of work, grounded in protest and passion, was part of the long tradition of the Black Press as an instrument to agitate for social and political change. Jackson also was a frequent speaker at NAACP branches, colleges, and churches. He was known as a commanding, even fiery, speaker who stressed first-class citizenship. Issues explored in the book demonstrate an assertion of constitutional rights in post-World War II America and a remarkable resilience. Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940-1975, is the first scholarly analysis of his work and as such contributes to scholarship on the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and the nation"--
Author : United States. Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Plummer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415102957
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Telling Sexual Stories written by Kenneth Plummer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinrich Schenker: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and theorist.
Author : Allen Cronenberg
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817350276
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Forth to the Mighty Conflict written by Allen Cronenberg and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama and its people played a conspicuous role in World War II. Not only were thousands of servicemen trained at military facilities in the state but Axis prisoners of war were interned in camps on Alabama soil, most notably at Aliceville and Opelika. More than 45,000 Alabama citizens were killed in combat or died as POWs, some came home injured, and many labored in war factories at home.
Author : Carolyn McKinstry
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414352999
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)
Download or read book While the World Watched written by Carolyn McKinstry and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl’s restroom she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history . . . and the turning point in a young girl’s life. While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of life in the Jim Crow South: from the bombings, riots, and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that characterized the Civil Rights movement. A uniquely moving exploration of how racial relations have evolved over the past 5 decades, While the World Watched is an incredible testament to how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go.
