Literature

All Over Alabama is the fun account of a close-knit family that lives in Alabama- a family of frogs that is! Readers with roots in Alabama will smile as a bullfrog named Gig, whose family is very big, desrcribes some of the relatives he has living throughout the state. There's Gig's Uncle Wart in Spanish Fort, Cousin Toady Belle- the beauty queen from Hazel Green, the cousins that are itty bitty-tiny tadpoles in Pell City... and that's not all!

Jackson Knight is a historian, photographer, and author dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of Alabama’s Black Belt region. Through extensive travel and research, he has documented over 1,500 historic churches, capturing their architecture, stories, and locations before they disappear. His growing series of photo books showcases these sacred spaces county by county, offering a unique visual record of rural Southern history. The Churches of The Alabama Black Belt: Sumter County paperback...

Jackson Knight is a historian, photographer, and author dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of Alabama’s Black Belt region. Through extensive travel and research, he has documented over 1,500 historic churches, capturing their architecture, stories, and locations before they disappear. His growing series of photo books showcases these sacred spaces county by county, offering a unique visual record of rural Southern history. The Churches of The Alabama Black Belt: Butler County paperback...

Jackson Knight is a historian, photographer, and author dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of Alabama’s Black Belt region. Through extensive travel and research, he has documented over 1,500 historic churches, capturing their architecture, stories, and locations before they disappear. His growing series of photo books showcases these sacred spaces county by county, offering a unique visual record of rural Southern history. The Churches of The Alabama Black Belt: Conecuh County paperback...

Jackson Knight is a historian, photographer, and author dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of Alabama’s Black Belt region. Through extensive travel and research, he has documented over 1,500 historic churches, capturing their architecture, stories, and locations before they disappear. His growing series of photo books showcases these sacred spaces county by county, offering a unique visual record of rural Southern history. The Churches of The Alabama Black Belt: Lowndes County paperback...

Jackson Knight is a historian, photographer, and author dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of Alabama’s Black Belt region. Through extensive travel and research, he has documented over 1,500 historic churches, capturing their architecture, stories, and locations before they disappear. His growing series of photo books showcases these sacred spaces county by county, offering a unique visual record of rural Southern history. The Churches of The Alabama Black Belt: Marengo County paperback...

Cora Jean is the story of a young girl from the American South, the daughter of a prostitute who is sold for forty dollars and five sacks of sweet potatoes. From a brutal upbringing and tumultuous life growing up in the 1960s to modern day, Cora Jean's simple heart and strength of character shine through in a story of love, loss and ultimate grace that speaks volumes to us all.

Dead Towns of Alabama is not merely a series of obituaries for dead towns. Instead, it brings back to life 83 Indian towns, 77 fort sites, and 112 colonial, territorial, and state towns. W. Stuart Harris conjures up a wealth of fascinating images from Alabama's rich and colorful past--images of life as the Indians lived it, of colonial life in the wilderness, of Spanish explorers and French exiles, of danger and romance, of riverboats and railroads, of plantations and gold mines, of...

In Eden Rise Tom McKee, a white college freshman, returns to his home in the Alabama Black Belt in the summer of 1965 and becomes embroiled in a civil-rights conflict that divides his family, his town, and his own identity. His wealthy and powerful family is not prepared for the shocks that have followed the racial quake of the Selma March a few months earlier. Tom’s black college friend accompanies him home and gets caught in racial violence. Coming to his friend’s defense, Tom earns the...

In three dozen poems and a two-act play, MacArthur Fellow Billie Jean Young honors the tradition of struggle, resistance, and survival common to generations of women descended from African slaves. The tradition she dramatizes in her acclaimed portrayal of Fannie Lou Hamer (here for the first time in book form)-the tradition of making a way out of no way-is the same tradition she celebrates in remembering her mother's "rub-board hands." Her poetry also reveals the deeply painful, often hidden...

This book gives a biref 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 firebombing of their bus in Anniston to surviving beatings in Birmingham. A large portion of this book describes the riders' arrival in Montgomery, including the violent white mob that greeted them and the ensuin...

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