From Civil War to civil rights, Alabama 1860–1960 : an anthology from the Alabama Review / compiled by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alabama--History--1819-1950.

Alabama--History--1951-.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (550 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To understand Alabama history one must appreciate the impact of the failure of secession of the state in the subsequent half century as well as the causes for the success of the Civil Rights Movement in the state in the mid-twentieth century.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Civil War and Reconstruction; The Young Manhood of William L. Yancey - Ralph B. Draughon, Jr.; Selma and the Confederate States Navy - William N. Still; The Cahawba Military Prison, 1863-1865 - Peter A. Brannon; The 1863 Raid of Abel D. Streight: Why It Failed - James F. Cook; Five Men Called Scalawags - Sarah Van V. Woolfolk; Carpetbaggers in Alabama: Tradition Versus Truth - Sarah Van Woolfolk; Josiah Gorgas and the Brierfield Iron Works - Frank E. Vandiver

Female Planters and Planters' Wives in Civil War and Reconstruction: Alabama, 1850-1870 - Jonathan M. WienerBourbonism and Populism; The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Alabama Agriculture - Grady McWhiney; The Alabama State Grange - William Warren Rogers; William Manning Lowe and the Greenback Party in Alabama - Frances Roberts; The Farmers' Alliance in Alabama - William Warren Rogers; Governor Johnston's Attempt to Unseat Senator Morgan, 1899-1900 - Joseph A. Fry; Progressive Era; Political Reforms of the Progressive Era - Allen W. Jones

Comer, Smith, and Jones: Alabama's Railroad War of 1907-1914 - James F. DosterEdgar Gardner Murphy and the Child Labor Movement - Hugh C. Bailey; George Gordon Crawford: Man of the New South - Marlene Hunt Rikard; Religion in the Urban South: The Divided Religious Mind of Birmingham, 1900-1930 - Wayne Flynt; The Woman Suffrage Movement in Alabama, 1910-1920 - Lee N. Allen; The Twenties; Henry Ford and Muscle Shoals - Leslie S. Wright; Fiery Crosses in the Roaring Twenties: Activities of the Revised Klan in Alabama, 1915-1930 - William R. Snell

The 1924 Underwood Campaign in Alabama - Lee N. AllenBibb Graves as a Progressive, 1927-1930 - William E. Gilbert; Alabama Politics, J. Thomas Heflin, and the Expulsion Movement of 1929 - J. Mills Thornton III; The Great Depression; Spindle, Mine, and Mule: The Poor White Experience in Post-Civil War Alabama - Wayne Flynt; World War II and Beyond; The Old Order Changes: Graves, Sparks, Folsom, and the Gubernatorial Election of 1942 - William D. Barnard; The Senate's Rejection of Aubrey Williams as Rural Electrification Administrator - Leonard Dinnerstein

James E. Folsom's 1946 Campaign - Carl GraftonChallenge and Response in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 - J. Mills Thornton III; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-8173-9061-8

0-585-22391-2

OCLC:

967523599