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Tuscaloosa Through Time

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Author : Serena Blount
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781635000696
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa Through Time written by Serena Blount and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its two hundred years of history, the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has held a prominent position within the state, not only as home to the state's flagship university, but also taking turns as the State Capitol, as the location for the state mental health hospital, as the site of Civil War conflict, and as a Civil Rights landmark. A locale marked by rapid growth at the time of its formal incorporation, today's Tuscaloosa replicates that rapid development--witnessing industrial and commercial growth, a rising population, and an expanding University. Yet residents of contemporary Tuscaloosa are never far from their history and forebears, for beautiful reminders of its past dot the city and lend to its grace and charms, while uglier aspects of that past lend to its self-awareness and point the way toward more enlightened and just self-governance. Indeed, this rich and varied history claims for Tuscaloosa a compelling position in American memory.

Tuscaloosa

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Author : G. Ward Hubbs
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817359443
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa written by G. Ward Hubbs and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Alabama Historical Association's 2020 Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award! A lavishly illustrated history of this distinctive city’s origins as a settlement on the banks of the Black Warrior River to its development into a thriving nexus of higher education, sports, and culture In both its subject and its approach, Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making is an account unlike any other of a city unlike any other—storied, inimitable, and thriving. G. Ward Hubbs has written a lively and enlightening bicentennial history of Tuscaloosa that is by turns enthralling, dramatic, disturbing, and uplifting. Far from a traditional chronicle listing one event after another, the narrative focuses instead on six key turning points that dramatically altered the fabric of the city over the past two centuries. The selection of this frontier village as the state capital gave rise to a building boom, some extraordinary architecture, and the founding of The University of Alabama. The state’s secession in 1861 brought on a devastating war and the burning of the university by Union cavalry; decades of social adjustments followed, ultimately leading to legalized racial segregation. Meanwhile, town boosters set out to lure various industries, but with varying success. The decision to adopt new inventions, ranging from electricity to telephones to automobiles, revolutionized the daily lives of Tuscaloosans in only a few short decades. Beginning with radio, and followed by the Second World War and television, the formerly isolated townspeople discovered an entirely different world that would culminate in Mercedes-Benz building its first overseas production plant nearby. At the same time, the world would watch as Tuscaloosa became the center of some pivotal moments in the civil rights movement—and great moments in college football as well. An impressive amount of research is collected in this accessibly written history of the city and its evolution. Tuscaloosa is a versatile history that will be of interest to a general readership, for scholars to use as a starting point for further research, and for city and county school students to better understand their home locale.

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Author : W. Glasgow Phillips
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452274396
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa written by W. Glasgow Phillips and published by Plume. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the verge of entering whatever "high society" Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has to offer a young man in 1972, Bill Mitchell falls in love with an inmate at his father's mental institution. Now Bill must either muster the courage to elope with his love or accept a prescribed--but unwelcome--role within the Southern patriarchy. "An ambitious and surprisingly effective first novel".--San Francisco Chronicle.

Civil War Alabama

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Author : Christopher Lyle McIlwain
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318941
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Alabama written by Christopher Lyle McIlwain and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Opening the Doors

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Author : B. J. Hollars
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317929
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Opening the Doors written by B. J. Hollars and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the University of Alabama’s desegregation, in Opening the Doors B. J. Hollars focuses on Tuscaloosa’s purposeful divide between “town” and “gown,” providing a new contextual framework for this landmark period in civil rights history. The image of George Wallace’s stand in the schoolhouse door has long burned in American consciousness; however, just as interesting are the circumstances that led him there in the first place, a process that proved successful due to the concerted efforts of dedicated student leaders, a progressive university president, a steadfast administration, and secret negotiations between the U.S. Justice Department, the White House, and Alabama’s stubborn governor. In the months directly following Governor Wallace’s infamous stand, Tuscaloosa became home to a leader of a very different kind: twenty-eight-year-old African American reverend T. Y. Rogers, an up-and-comer in the civil rights movement, as well as the protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. After taking a post at Tuscaloosa’s First African Baptist Church, Rogers began laying the groundwork for the city’s own civil rights movement. In the summer of 1964, the struggle for equality in Tuscaloosa resulted in the integration of the city’s public facilities, a march on the county courthouse, a bloody battle between police and protesters, confrontations with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a bus boycott, and the near-accidental-lynching of movie star Jack Palance. Relying heavily on new firsthand accounts and personal interviews, newspapers, previously classified documents, and archival research, Hollars’s in-depth reporting reveals the courage and conviction of a town, its university, and the people who call it home.

Tuscaloosa

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Author : Amalia K. Amaki and Priscilla N. Davis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467114367
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa written by Amalia K. Amaki and Priscilla N. Davis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, Tuscaloosa drew national attention when the University of Alabama was fully integrated. The decade also marked the arrival of Paul "Bear" Bryant as head coach of Alabama's football team and the majority of Frank Anthony Rose's tenure as president--a period characterized by race mediation and increases in enrollment, assets, and academic standards. For the next 50 years, sports, education, cultural and recreational opportunities, and business developments contributed to the city and the lifestyles of its residents. Tuscaloosa has associations with people such as F. David Mathews (who concurrently served as president of Alabama and as a secretary under Pres. Gerald Ford), writer Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road), actress Sela Ward, and quarterback Joe Namath.

The Storm and the Tide

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Author : Lars Anderson
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1618939580
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book The Storm and the Tide written by Lars Anderson and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy, Hope, and Triumph in Tuscaloosa

1865 Alabama

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Author : Christopher Lyle McIlwain
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319530
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book 1865 Alabama written by Christopher Lyle McIlwain and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of a vitally important year in Alabama history The year 1865 is critically important to an accurate understanding of Alabama's present. In 1865 Alabama: From Civil War to Uncivil Peace Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr. examines the end of the Civil War and the early days of Reconstruction in the state and details what he interprets as strategic failures of Alabama's political leadership. The actions, and inactions, of Alabamians during those twelve months caused many self-inflicted wounds that haunted them for the next century. McIlwain recounts a history of missed opportunities that had substantial and reverberating consequences. He focuses on four factors: the immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves, the destruction of Alabama's remaining industrial economy, significant broadening of northern support for suffrage rights for the freedmen, and an acute and lengthy postwar shortage of investment capital. Each element proves critically important in understanding how present-day Alabama was forged. Relevant events outside Alabama are woven into the narrative, including McIlwain's controversial argument regarding the effect of Lincoln's assassination. Most historians assume that Lincoln favored black suffrage and that he would have led the fight to impose that on the South. But he made it clear to his cabinet members that granting suffrage rights was a matter to be decided by the southern states, not the federal government. Thus, according to McIlwain, if Lincoln had lived, black suffrage would not have been the issue it became in Alabama. McIlwain provides a sifting analysis of what really happened in Alabama in 1865 and why it happened--debunking in the process the myth that Alabama's problems were unnecessarily brought on by the North. The overarching theme demonstrates that Alabama's postwar problems were of its own making. They would have been quite avoidable, he argues, if Alabama's political leadership had been savvier.

Sketches of Alabama

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Author : Mary Gordon Duffee
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081735011X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Sketches of Alabama written by Mary Gordon Duffee and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-04-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.

Operation Tuscaloosa

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Author : John J. Culbertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804115650
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Operation Tuscaloosa written by John J. Culbertson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967, Operation Tuscaloosa sent 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, into the hostile Song Thu Bon valley. Their mission--to exterminate the Viet Cong. But a sandbar island in the river quickly became an island of death for the Marines. As point man for the lead squad of Hotel Company, 2/5, John Culbertson tells the full bloody story of the battle.

Tuskaloosa Kills

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Author : Scott Mc McWaters
Publisher : Spork Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948510325
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Tuskaloosa Kills written by Scott Mc McWaters and published by Spork Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuskaloosa Kills has the teeth of a saw. And the eyes of a wolf. It's a patchwork prose back-and-forth--it's a heady screwloose brew of marblemouth and jughead musings upon a famous football town with a clandestine literary history. Tuskaloosa Kills is a soapbox upon which McWaters and Smith howl of how humans make community and community unmakes humans. Think threads and scraps, interlaced and unraveling: how a yarn isn't bellyached from one voice but through a spice-cabinet of voices--heard, misheard, remembered, misremembered, and echoing for one more round.

Northern Alabama

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Northern Alabama written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ferdinand De Soto and the Invasion of Florida

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Author : Frederick Albion Ober
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ferdinand De Soto and the Invasion of Florida written by Frederick Albion Ober and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks

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Author : Jim Lacefield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976930419
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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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:

Girls' Weekend

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Author : Karen Schaeffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781619591356
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (913 download)

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Selma

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Author : Alston Fitts (III)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780817390655
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Selma written by Alston Fitts (III) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Matt Clinton's Scrapbook

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Author : Matthew William Clinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916620288
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Matt Clinton's Scrapbook written by Matthew William Clinton and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: