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Author | : Wayne Flynt |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2004-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081731430X |
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A native son and accomplished historian does not flinch from pointing out Alabama's failures from the past 100 years; neither is he restrained in calling attention to the state's triumphs in this authoritative, popular history of the past 100 years.
Author | : J. Mack Lofton |
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Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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A mosaic constructed by Alabamians remembering their past. Lofton traveled the length and breadth of the state listening as miners, mill workers, bank executives, homemakers, sharecroppers, businessmen, and college presidents told about their lives in the 1920s, the Great Depression, and World War II.
Author | : Patricia H. Klein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Alabama |
ISBN | : 9781567330106 |
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Author | : Allen Tullos |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082033961X |
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In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation's most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary—the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity. From Alabama's largely ineffectual politicians to its miserly support of education, health care, cultural institutions, and social services, Tullos examines why the state appears to be stuck in repetitive loops of uneven development and debilitating habits of judgment. The state remains tied to fundamentalisms of religion, race, gender, winner-take-all economics, and militarism enforced by punitive and defensive responses to criticism. Tullos traces the spectral legacy of George Wallace, ponders the roots of anti-egalitarian political institutions and tax structures, and challenges Birmingham native Condoleezza Rice's use of the civil rights struggle to justify the war in Iraq. He also gives due coverage to the state's black citizens who with a minority of whites have sustained a movement for social justice and democratic inclusion. As Alabama competes for cultural tourism and global industries like auto manufacturing and biomedical research, Alabama Getaway asks if the coming years will see a transformation of the “Heart of Dixie.”
Author | : Betty Barnett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Describes the prominent people and events of Alabama from the early Indian settlements and the arrival of the white man to the present day.
Author | : Fletcher S. Roberts |
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Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Alabama |
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Total Pages | : 51 |
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Author | : Joseph Bagley |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 082035418X |
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In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954–73 taught Alabama’s segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense of white privilege, placing them in the vanguard of a new conservatism oriented toward the Sunbelt, not the South. Scholars have recently begun uncovering the ways in which segregationists abandoned violent backlash and overt economic reprisal and learned how to rearticulate their resistance and blind others to their racial motivations. Bagley is most interested in a creedal commitment to maintaining “law and order,” which lay at the heart of this transition. Before it was a buzz phrase meant to conjure up fears of urban black violence, “law and order” represented a politics that allowed self-styled white moderates to begrudgingly accept token desegregation and to begin to stake their own claims to constitutional rights without forcing them to repudiate segregation or white supremacy. Federal courts have, as recently as 2014, agreed that Alabama’s property tax system is crippling black education. Bagley argues that this is because, in the late 1960s, the politics of law and order became a politics of white rights, which supported not only white flight to suburbs and private schools but also nominally color-blind changes in the state’s tax code. These changes were designed to shield white money from the needs of increasingly black public education. Activists and courts have been powerless to do anything about them, because twenty years of desperate litigious combat finally taught Alabama lawmakers how to erect constitutional bulwarks that could withstand a legal assault.
Author | : Robert H. Woodrum |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820328799 |
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In 1930 almost 13,000 African Americans worked in the coal mines around Birmingham, Alabama. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union's local membership. At the close of the twentieth century, only about 15 percent of Birmingham's miners were black, and the entire mining workforce had been sharply reduced. Robert H. Woodrum offers a challenging interpretation of why this dramatic decline occurred and why it happened during an era of strong union presence in the Alabama coalfields. Drawing on union, company, and government records as well as interviews with coal miners, Woodrum examines the complex connections between racial ideology and technological and economic change. Extending the chronological scope of previous studies of race, work, and unionization in the Birmingham coalfields, Woodrum covers the New Deal, World War II, the postwar era, the 1970s expansion of coalfield employment, and contemporary trends toward globalization. The United Mine Workers of America's efforts to bridge the color line in places like Birmingham should not be underestimated, says Woodrum. Facing pressure from the wider world of segregationist Alabama, however, union leadership ultimately backed off the UMWA's historic commitment to the rights of its black members. Woodrum discusses the role of state UMWA president William Mitch in this process and describes Birmingham's unique economic circumstances as an essentially Rust Belt city within the burgeoning Sun Belt South. This is a nuanced exploration of how, despite their central role in bringing the UMWA back to Alabama in the early 1930s, black miners remained vulnerable to the economic and technological changes that transformed the coal industry after World War II.
Author | : Alabama Library Association. Bibliographic Committee |
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Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Alabama |
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