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Stealth Reconstruction
An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
America seems to have little sense of how the Civil Rights Movement actually played into southern politics over the remainder of the twentieth Century. The common vision is a monolithic struggle between heroes and villains, depicted literally and figuratively in black and white. Unfortunately, this...
A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation
Based on His Experiences Beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
In 1955, when the Montgomery Bus Boycott began, author Bob Graetz was the young white pastor of a black Lutheran Church in Montgomery. His church and his home were in the black community and he and his wife among the few whites who supported the boycott. Their church and home were both bombed; their...
Jim Crow and Me
Stories From My Life As a Civil Rights Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Civil rights lawyer Solomon S. Seay, Jr. chronicles both heartening and heartbreaking episodes of his first-hand struggle to achieve the actualization of civil rights. Tempered with wit and told with endearing humility, Seay’s memoir Jim Crow and Me: Stories from My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer...
Looking for the Future
A Meditation on Political Choice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
We Americans approach -- not a crossroads -- but a branching of our political road where several destinations are possible. One requires surrendering power to what has become our de-facto governing or ruling class. Another takes us to an expanded democracy where the gap between the “have much”...
They Had No Voice
My Fight for Alabama's Forgotten Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Denny Abbott first encountered the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs as a twenty-one-year-old probation officer for the Montgomery County Family Court. He would became so concerned about conditions for black juvenile offenders there -- including hard labor, beatings, and rape...
The Freedom Rides and Alabama
A Guide to Key Events and Places, Context, and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
This concise guidebook gives a brief overview of the 1961 Freedom Rides, a crucial moment in American history in which an interracial group traveled across the South to protest segregated transportation. The Freedom Rides and Alabama focuses on the Freedom Riders? experiences in Alabama, from the...
Civil Rights in My Bones
More Colorful Stories from a Lawyer's Life and Work, 2005–2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Civil Rights in My Bones: More Colorful Stories from a Lawyer's Life and Work, 2005-2015 is a memoir by Julian L. McPhillips Jr. In a career stretching over forty-plus years, the Montgomery, Alabama, attorney has earned a reputation as a determined advocate for the rights of consumers, victims of...
Drug Conspiracy
We Only Want the Blacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Part history, part true crime thriller, part first-hand investigation into the inner workings of the U.S. Justice Department, and part polemic, Drug Conspiracy: “We Only Want the Blacks”—My Persecution by the United States Government is the story of one man’s attempt to navigate the labyrinthine...
by John Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
This provocative novel takes the reader on a wild ride inside the mind of a Mississippi Delta good-old-boy ex-deputy sheriff who is as vicious and racist as the worst 1950s-’60s stereotypes. Junior Ray Loveblood narrates the story in his own profane, colloquial voice, telling why he hates just about...
by Lewis Grizzard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat, first published in 1982, has sold more than 100,000 copies. Without skipping a beat, one of America's favorite humorists, the late Lewis Grizzard, tells of the early stirrings of his wayward heart in the backseat of a '57 Chevy and the ominous murmurings...
Tinsley Harrison, M.D.
Teacher of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Tinsley Harrison -- doctor, teacher, researcher, medical school leader -- is one of the most important medical figures of the 20th century. He edited the first five editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, regarded as a quintessential medical text and perhaps the best-selling medical...
Crooked Letter i
Coming Out in the South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Crooked Letter i offers a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct 'coming out' experiences of a complex cross-section of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Southerners from all walks of life and at different stages in their lives. There is the Appalachian widower who,...
When Heaven and Earth Collide
Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
When Heaven and Earth Collide is an investigation into what went wrong in the American South in regard to race and religion—and how things can be and are being made right. Why, in a land filled with Christian churches, was there such racial oppression and division? Why didn’t white evangelicals...
The Poetry of Faith
Sermons Preached in a Southern Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The ministry of the Rev. Stephen F. Dill was forged in the turbulent civil rights years when he stood for social justice and spoke against racial segregation. In this collection of sermons -- many from his 20 years as pastor of Dauphin Way United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama -- Dill reflects...