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Selma: A Bicentennial History
Selma: A Bicentennial History© 2017 Alston Fitts III384 pages On December 4th, 1820, the Alabama legislature granted a town charter to a burgeoning community established on a high bluff overlooking the Alabama river. The place, named after a cities of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, American Civil War, Civil Rights, history, race, Selma
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings© 1969 Maya Angelou304 pages I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography in the form of a novel, following a young woman’s coming of age as she journeys from a small … Continue reading
Up from Slavery
Up From Slavery© 1901 Booker T. Washington332 pages Up from Slavery is an hopeful reflection by Booker T. Washington on the future of black Americans and the American nation, as he reflects on the thirty-odd years since the abolition of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, American Literature, Classics Club Challenge, education, race, Reconstruction
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Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis© 2016 J.D. Vance272 pages Imagine a childhood in which the most stable person in your life once methodically marinated her passed-out drunken husband with lighter fluid, then set him … Continue reading
Harvest of Empire
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America© 2000 Juan Gonzalez416 pages Harvest of Empire is a tale of two civilizations, Anglo and Spanish. In general terms, it recounts the history or rather the plight of Latin America, of people … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American Southwest, Central America, geopolitics, history, Latino, Native America, race, social history, South America, Spain
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Dixie’s Forgotten People
Dixie’s Forgotten People: the South’s Poor Whites© 1979 Wayne Flynt200 pgs Just poor people is all we were, tryin’ to make a living out of black land dirt.. When Franklin Roosevelt referred to the forgotten man, he was likely thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged American South, history, labor, poverty, race, social history, sociology, Wayne Flynt
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The Fiery Cross
The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America© 1998 Wyn Craig Wade528 pages Living in the country as I did, the bus ride to school always lasted over an hour, and in elementary school I remember being utterly petrified … Continue reading
Hanging Curve
Hanging Curve © 1999 Troy Soos272 pages St. Louis, 1922. Babe Ruth reigns as the king of baseball. Mickey Rawlings is no king, not even a prince, but he is at least in the peerage: a utility infielder for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, baseball, Civil Rights, historical fiction, mystery, race
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Born Fighting
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America© 2004 Jim Webb384 pages Born Fighting is a family story of the Scots-Irish, a clan of forgotten men. Beginning with the Celts, author Jim Webb moves swiftly through British history to the establishment … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, American South, Britain, Celts, Europe, history, Ireland, race
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Selma 1965
Selma 1965: the March that Changed the South© 1974, 1985, 2015 Chuck Fager257 pages (2nd edition), Last weekend, my hometown suddenly became host to two presidents, a hundred members of Congress, and enough people to see it swell over ten times … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, Civil Rights, history, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, race, Selma
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