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Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch
somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt
got the opportunity to do just this with Nelle Harper Lee. In a
friendship that blossomed over a dozen years starting when Lee
relocated back to Alabama after having had a stroke, Flynt and his
wife Dartie became regular visitors at the assisted living facility
that was Lee's new home. And there the conversation began. It began
where it always begins with Southern storytellers, with an
invitation to "Come in, sit down, and stay a while." The stories
exchanged ranged widely over the topics of Alabama history, Alabama
folklore, family genealogy, and American literature, of course. On
the way from beginning to end there were many detours: talks about
Huntingdon College; The University of Alabama; New York City; the
United Kingdom; Garden City, Kansas; and Mobile, Alabama, to name
just a few. Wayne and his wife were often joined by Alice Lee, the
oldest Lee sister, a living encyclopedia on the subject of family
genealogy, and middle sister Louise Lee Conner. The hours spent
visiting, in intimate closeness, are still cherished by Wayne
Flynt. They yielded revelations large and small, which have been
shaped into Afternoons with Harper Lee. Part memoir, part
biography, this book offers a unique window into the life and mind
and preoccupations of one of America's best-loved writers. Flynt
and Harper Lee and her sisters learned a great deal from each
other, and though this is not a history book, their shared interest
in Alabama and its history made this extraordinary work possible.
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women
celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by
highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our
understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as
politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of
eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social,
cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama.
Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing,
Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ru ner
Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald, Sara Martin May eld, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia
Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles
Smith, and Harper Lee.
A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama's history to celebrate the
state's bicentennial. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State,
Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the
state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated
to celebrate the state's bicentennial year, offers a detailed
survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in
Alabama's evolution. Organized chronologically and divided into
three main sections-the first concluding in 1865, the second in
1920, and the third bringing the story to the present-makes clear
and interprets the major events that occurred during Alabama's
history within the larger context of the South and the nation. Once
the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and
occupied by a number of European nations prior to becoming a
permanent part of the United States in 1819. A cotton and slave
state for more than half of the nineteenth century, Alabama seceded
in 1861 to join the Confederate States of America, and occupied an
uneasy and uncertain place in America's post-Civil War landscape.
Alabama's role in the twentieth century has been equally tumultuous
and dramatic. General readers as well as scholars will welcome this
up-to-date and scrupulously researched history of Alabama, which
examines such traditional subjects as politics, military history,
economics, race, and class. It contains essential accounts devoted
to Native Americans, women, and the environment, as well as
detailed coverage of health, education, organized labor, civil
rights, and the many cultural developments, from literature to
sport, that have enriched Alabama's history. The stories of
individual leaders, from politicians to creative artists, are also
highlighted. A key facet of this landmark historical narrative is
the strong emphasis placed on the common everyday people of
Alabama, those who have been rightly described as the "bone and
sinew" of the state.
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Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women
celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by
highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our
understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as
politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of
eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social,
cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama.
Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing,
Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ru ner
Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald, Sara Martin May eld, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia
Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles
Smith, and Harper Lee.
"The best sort of introductory study... packed with enlightening
information." The Times Literary Supplement
Poor whites have been isolated from mainstream white Southern
culture and have been in turn stereotyped as rednecks and Holy
Rollers, discriminated against, and misunderstood. In their
isolation, they have developed a unique subculture and defended it
with a tenacity and pride that puzzles and confuses the larger
society. Written 25 years ago, this book was one scholar s attempt
to understand these people and their culture. For this new edition,
Wayne Flynt has provided a new retrospective introduction and an
up-to-date bibliography."
A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama's history to celebrate the
state's bicentennial. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State,
Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the
state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated
to celebrate the state's bicentennial year, offers a detailed
survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in
Alabama's evolution. Organized chronologically and divided into
three main sections-the first concluding in 1865, the second in
1920, and the third bringing the story to the present-makes clear
and interprets the major events that occurred during Alabama's
history within the larger context of the South and the nation. Once
the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and
occupied by a number of European nations prior to becoming a
permanent part of the United States in 1819. A cotton and slave
state for more than half of the nineteenth century, Alabama seceded
in 1861 to join the Confederate States of America, and occupied an
uneasy and uncertain place in America's post-Civil War landscape.
Alabama's role in the twentieth century has been equally tumultuous
and dramatic. General readers as well as scholars will welcome this
up-to-date and scrupulously researched history of Alabama, which
examines such traditional subjects as politics, military history,
economics, race, and class. It contains essential accounts devoted
to Native Americans, women, and the environment, as well as
detailed coverage of health, education, organized labor, civil
rights, and the many cultural developments, from literature to
sport, that have enriched Alabama's history. The stories of
individual leaders, from politicians to creative artists, are also
highlighted. A key facet of this landmark historical narrative is
the strong emphasis placed on the common everyday people of
Alabama, those who have been rightly described as the "bone and
sinew" of the state.
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
is a collection of fifteen essays by award-winning scholar Wayne
Flynt that explores and reveals the often-forgotten religious
heterogeneity of the American South. Throughout its dramatic
history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as
poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party
politics, and Flynt's writing reaffirms religion as the lens
through which southerners understand and attempt to answer these
contentious questions. In Southern Religion and Christian Diversity
in the Twentieth Century, however, Flynt gently but persuasively
dispels the myth-comforting to some and dismaying to others-of
religion in the South as an inert cairn of reactionary
conservatism. Flynt introduces a wealth of stories about
individuals and communities of faith whose beliefs and actions map
the South's web of theological fault lines. In the early twentieth
century, North Carolinian pastor Alexander McKelway became a
relentless crusader against the common practice of child labor. In
1972, Rev. Dr. Ruby Kile, in a time of segregated churches led by
men, took the helm of the eight-member Powderly Faith Deliverance
Center in Jefferson County, Alabama and built the fledgling group
into a robust congregation with more than 700 black and white
worshippers. Flynt also examines the role of religion in numerous
pivotal court cases, such as the US Supreme Court school prayer
case Engel v. Vitale, whose majority opinion was penned by Justice
Hugo Black, an Alabamian. These fascinating case studies and many
more illuminate a religious landscape of far more varied texture
and complexity than is commonly believed. Southern Religion and
Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century offers much to readers
and scholars interested in the South, religion, and theology.
Writing with his hallmark wit, warmth, and erudition, Flynt's
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
is a vital record of gospel-inspired southerners whose stories
revivify sclerotic assumptions about the narrow conformity of
southern Christians.
An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional
and national context Alabama is a state full of contrasts. On the
one hand, it has elected the lowest number of women to the state
legislature of any state in the union; yet according to historians
it produced two of the ten most important American women of the
20th century--Helen Keller and Rosa Parks. Its people are
fanatically devoted to conservative religious values; yet they
openly idolize tarnished football programs as the source of their
heroes. Citizens who are puzzled by Alabama's maddening resistance
to change or its incredibly strong sense of tradition and community
will find important clues and new understanding within these pages.
Written by passionate Alabamian and accomplished historian Wayne
Flynt, Alabama in the Twentieth Century offers supporting arguments
for both detractors and admirers of the state. A native son who has
lived, loved, taught, debated, and grieved within the state for 60
of the 100 years described, the author does not flinch from
pointing out Alabama's failures, such as the woeful yoke of a 1901
state constitution, the oldest one in the nation; neither is he
restrained in calling attention to the state's triumphs against
great odds, such as its phenomenal number of military heroes and
gifted athletes, its dazzling array of writers, folk artists, and
musicians, or its haunting physical beauty despite decades of
abuse. Chapters are organized by topic--politics, the economy,
education, African Americans, women, the military, sport, religion,
literature, art, journalism--rather than chronologically, so the
reader can digest the whole sweep of the century on a particular
subject. Flynt's writing style is engaging, descriptive, free of
clutter, yet based on sound scholarship. This book offers teachers
and readers alike the vast range and complexity of Alabama's
triumphs and low points in a defining century.
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.
This timely examination of Alabama's severely criticized state
constitution will serve as an indispensable guide for legislators
and citizens considering reform of the outdated document. Alabama's
present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the
source of many, if not most, of the state's historic difficulties
and inequities. Chief among these is a poorly funded school system,
an imbalanced tax system that favors special business interests,
legislated racism, and unchecked urban sprawl. Many citizens
believe that, after 100 years of overburdening amendments and
confusing addendums, the constitution urgently needs rewriting.
With this book, Bailey Thomson has assembled the best scholarship
on the constitution, its history, and its implications for the
future. Historian Harvey H. Jackson III details the degree to which
the 1901 document was drafted as a legal tool to ensure white
supremacy at the expense of poor whites and blacks, while Joe A.
Sumners illustrates how the constitution ties the hands of elected
civic leaders by handing authority for local decisions to state
government in Montgomery. James W. Williams Jr. explores the impact
of the state constitution on the beleaguered tax system and the
three principal 'revenue crises' it has engendered. Thomson's own
contribution explains how, in contrast to the previous failed
attempts for constitutional change by past governors who appealed
to their fellow power brokers, the current reform movement arose
from the grassroots level. As citizens and politicians in Alabama
review the 1901 constitution for revision, as they navigate the
pitfalls and opportunities inherent in change, it is incumbent that
they inform themselves adequately on the controversies that have
swirled around the constitution since its adoption. The future of
Alabama's government will depend upon it, as will the fortunes of
Alabama's business interests and the well-being of every citizen in
the state for years to come.
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