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Author : Wayne Cline
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817361679
The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system
Author : Wayne Cline
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015041012322
Every section of the American frontier.
Author : Steve Suitts
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588383976
Three decades after his death, the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black continue to be studied and discussed. This definitive study of Black’s origins and early influences has been 25 years in the making and offers fresh insights into the justice’s character, thought processes, and instincts. Black came out of hardscrabble Alabama hill country, and he never forgot his origins. He was further shaped in the early 20th-century politics of Birmingham, where he set up a law practice and began his political career, eventually rising to the U.S. Senate, from which he was selected by FDR for the high court. Black’s nomination was opposed partly on the grounds that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. One of the book’s conclusions that is sure to be controversial is that in the context of Birmingham in the early 1920s, Black’s joining of the KKK was a progressive act. This startling assertion is supported by an examination of the conflict that was then raging in Birmingham between the Big Mule industrialists and the blue-collar labor unions. Black of course went on to become a staunch judicial advocate of free speech and civil rights, thus making him one of the figures most vilified by the KKK and other white supremacists in the 1950s and 1960s.
Author : Walter L. Fleming
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664636041
The book tells about the vents and political attitudes during the reconstruction period in Alabama after the civil war. It provides a great background for understanding the current political and economic situation of the state from a historical perspective. The author of the book, Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932), a historian of the South and Reconstruction, prepared the Ph.D. thesis on the same topic, and some parts of the book are part of the materials he collected for the work.
Author : Ethel Armes
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780817356828
“The principal authority for the general treatment of the history of coal, and of iron and steel, in Alabama is the work of Miss Ethel Armes. The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama is a comprehensive and scholarly work portraying in attractive style the growth of the mineral industries in its relation to the development of the state and of the South, in preparation of which the author spent more than five years.” —Thomas McAdory Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
Author : Elizabeth D. Schafer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0738523909
Through many decades, Lake Martin, a symbol of sustenance, has enticed generations of residents, vacationers, and modern retirees to its welcoming shores. This picturesque lake, shaped like a dragon protecting its territory, has witnessed droughts, tornadoes, fishing tournaments, boat races, and even World War II aircraft crashes. Surrounded by its own unique history, Lake Martin also reflects the dynamic personalities of those who sacrificed childhood homes and family land to bring dreams of a prosperous future to fruition. Before the Tallapoosa River was dammed to feed Lake Martin's waters, it was an ideal environment for the Native Americans who resided on land now submerged. The land's history is rife with discord as British soldiers and Georgia Rangers resisted French spies in the early 1700s and migrant settlers defended their homefront during the Civil War. The Martin Dam became a state landmark by 1927, generating hydroelectric power while memorializing the 31-mile-long lake as the world's largest man-made body of water at the time. It was not long before Lake Martin evolved into a community enjoying unparalleled growth as a vacation site and permanent home for Americans who discovered the satisfaction lakeside living could provide. Lake Martin: Alabama's Crown Jewel chronicles the trials and triumphs of the people who created one of today's leading retirement communities through courageous choices and determination. The story is told through compelling narrative and evocative images, many of which have not been widely published.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCAL:B4647624
Author : Christopher Lyle McIlwain
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817318949
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.
Author : Allen Johnston Going
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817305802
Chapter Twelve. The State and Social Welfare -- Chapter Thirteen. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Horace Mann Bond
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780817307349
Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His Negro Education in Alabama won Brown University’s Susan Colver Rosenberger Book Prize in 1937 and was praised as a landmark by W. E. B. Dubois in American Historical Review and by scholars in journals such as Journal of Negro Education and the Journal of Southern History. A seminal and wide-ranging work that encompasses not only education per se but a keen analysis of the African American experience of Reconstruction and the following decades, Negro Education in Alabama illuminates the social and educational conditions of its period. Observers of contemporary education can quickly perceive in Bond’s account the roots of many of today’s educational challenges.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1660 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Holding companies
ISBN : UOM:39015021137016
Author : Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101076804150
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063660000
Author : Bertis D. English
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817320690
How the 1863 elections in Perry County changed the course of Alabama's role in the Civil War In his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis D. English analyzes why Perry county, situated in the heart of a violence-prone subregion, enjoyed more peaceful race relations and less bloodshed than several neighboring counties. Choosing an atypical locality as central to his study, English raises questions about factors affecting ethnic disturbances in the Black Belt and elsewhere in Alabama. He also uses Perry County, which he deems an anomalous county, to caution against the tendency of some scholars to make sweeping generalizations about entire regions and subregions. English contends Perry County was a relatively tranquil place with a set of extremely influential African American businessmen, clergy, politicians, and other leaders during Reconstruction. Together with egalitarian or opportunistic white citizens, they headed a successful campaign for black agency and biracial cooperation that few counties in Alabama matched. English also illustrates how a significant number of educational institutions, a high density of African American residents, and an unusually organized and informed African American population were essential factors in forming Perry's character. He likewise traces the development of religion in Perry, the nineteenth-century Baptist capital of Alabama, and the emergence of civil rights in Perry, an underemphasized center of activism during the twentieth century. This well-researched and comprehensive volume illuminates Perry County's history from the various perspectives of its black, interracial, and white inhabitants, amplifying their own voices in a novel way. The narrative includes rich personal details about ordinary and affluent people, both free and unfree, creating a distinctive resource that will be useful to scholars as well as a reference that will serve the needs of students and general readers.
Author : Alabama Public Service Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101066782929
