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Distracted by Alabama
A gateway to Alabama for the omnivorous mind, Distracted by Alabama is a collection of twelve captivating essays about Alabama and the South by Samford University writer and scholar Jim Brown, a former president of the Alabama Folklife Association.
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Physicians for the People
A comprehensive historical account of race and
healthcare in the segregated South
Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable
stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama
during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the
ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who
defied segregation by establishing hospitals and clinics and
providing vital healthcare to underserved Black
communities.
This meticulously researched work draws on archival sources,
oral histories, and an unparalleled database to dismantle the
myth of a monolithic medical system in the Jim Crow South. Jack
D. Ellis argues that the post–Civil War lives of Black
physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives hold
special significance, illuminating both the causes of health
care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for
their continued underrepresentation in the medical
professions.
Offering much of interest to students and scholars of Black
history, medical history, and the civil rights movement,
Physicians for the People exposes the deliberate
exclusion faced by Black doctors within the white medical
establishment and their ongoing fight for racial equality in
medicine.
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Deep South Dynasty
Winner of the Gulf South Historical Association's Michael
V. R. Thomason Book Award The sweeping story of an ambitious and
once-powerful southern family From Reconstruction
through the end of World War II, the Bankheads served as the
principal architects of the political, economic, and cultural
framework of Alabama and the greater South. As a family, they
were instrumental in fashioning the New South and the twentieth
century American political economy, but now the Bankhead name is
largely associated only with place names
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Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama is a deeply
researched epic family biography that reflects the complicated
and evolving world inhabited by three generations of the
extremely accomplished—if problematic—Bankhead family
of northwest Alabama. Kari Frederickson’s expertly crafted
account traces the careers of five members of the
family—John Hollis Bankhead; his sons, John Hollis Bankhead
Jr. and William Brockman Bankhead; his daughter, Marie Bankhead
Owen; and his granddaughter, Tallulah Brockman Bankhead. A
Confederate veteran and son of a slaveholder, John Hollis
Bankhead held political office almost continuously from 1865
until his death in 1920, first in state-level positions and
ultimately in Congress–in the House then in the
Senate–for thirty-three years. Two of his three sons, John
Jr. and William, followed in their father’s political
footsteps. John Jr., a successful corporate attorney, was elected
to the state legislature and then to the US Senate in 1930;
William was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 and
chosen Speaker of the House in 1936. Together, father and sons
played key roles in crafting and maintaining a conservative
political culture, legal code, and economic system that
facilitated economic opportunities for cotton farmers, coal
barons, and emerging industries in Alabama and across the South
while perpetuating White supremacy. Daughter Marie Bankhead Owen
extended the family’s cultural power during her
thirty-five-year tenure as director of the Alabama Department of
Archives and History. From this position and through her work
with groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy, she
embraced and disseminated a historical narrative steeped in Lost
Cause mythology that validated the power and privilege of White
elites and naturalized the second-class status of African
Americans. William’s daughter, actress Tallulah Bankhead,
benefited from her family’s rich political bloodlines and
in turn lent them a touch of glamour and made the Bankheads
modern. Frederickson’s meticulously researched examination
of this once-powerful but now largely forgotten southern family
is a sweeping and complex story of the region and its
relationship with the wider world over the course of eight
decades, from the wreckage of the Civil War to the dawn of the
nuclear age.
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Patterson for Alabama
John Patterson, Alabama governor from 1959 to 1963, was
thrust into the Alabama political arena after the brutal murder
of his father, attorney general Albert Patterson in 1954. Allowed
by the Democratic Party to take his father’s place and to
complete the elder’s goal of cleaning up corruption in his
hometown Phenix City, Patterson made a young, attractive, and
sympathetic candidate.
Patterson for Alabama details his efforts to clean up
his hometown, oppose corruption in the administration of Governor
Big Jim Folsom, and to resist school desegregation. Popular on
all three counts, Patterson went on to defeat rising populist
George Wallace for governor. Patterson’s term as governor
was marked by rising violence as segregationists violently
resisted integration. His role as a champion of resistance has
clouded his reputation to this day. Patterson left office with
little to show for f his efforts and opposed for one reason or
another by nearly all sectors of Alabama. Stymied in efforts to
reclaim the governorship or a seat on the Alabama state Supreme
Court, Patterson was appointed by Wallace to the state court of
criminal appeals in 1984 and served on that body until retiring
in 1997. In 2004, he served as one of the justices who removed
the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore for
ignoring a federal court order.
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The broken road : George Wallace and a daughter's journey to reconcilation
\"From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate--and illuminates her journey towards redemption\"-- Provided by publisher.
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He included me : the autobiography of Sarah Rice
A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, He Included Me weaves together the story of a black family-eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister-and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead.
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