Newsouth Books: 150 books
Hadacol Days
A Southern Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Clyde Bolton has long been a dean of the Southern sportswriting community. Now this popular columnist focuses his beguiling prose on his boyhood memories in his delightful memoir, Hadacol Days. The title is taken from a high school cheer: “Statham Wildcats on the Ball, They’ve Been Drinking Hadacol.”...
Behind the Hedges
Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In Behind the Hedges, journalist Rich Whitt focused his investigative lens on recent events at the University of Georgia, and in so doing examined the bigger story of "a sea change in how America supports its institutions of higher education." Through interviews with many key figures in...
'Echoes' of Robert E. Lee High School
The First Decade, 1955-65
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This book is an anthology about the first decade of Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Alabama, written and compiled by persons who supplemented their unique personal experiences at the school with research on the same. The "echoes" of the title refers to how life experiences reverberate...
by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s Hank Hung the Moon is more of a musical memoir than a biography: the author’s evocative and personal stories of 1950s and ’60s musical staples—elementary school rhythm bands, British Invasion rock concerts and tear-jerker movie musicals....
by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, winner of the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest reporting, turns her sharp eye on herself in this frank, exhilarating, wise, poignant, and brave memoir. Her territory ranges from childhood memories of ritual pre-interstate trips in the family...
by Lewis Grizzard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Lewis Grizzard got his first newspaper job when he was ten years old. Thirty-odd years later (thirty-very-odd years) he’s still in the newspaper business—and he’s still infuriated by it, still tickled by it, and still very much in love with it. If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail...
by Dr. Ibrahim Fawal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
On the Hills of God describes the year-long journey of a boy becoming a man, while all that he has known crumbles to ashes. The novel has been translated into German and Arabic and won the PEN Oakland Award for literary excellence. Critic Ishmael Reed calls it “a monumental book.” This revised...
Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama
A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. In addition, she has taught the art to hundreds of students. As Dr. James Rose notes, all genealogists...
The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders
On the Old Southwest Frontier, 1716-1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In this volume, Amos J. Wright Jr. compiles and presents the source materials relating to the lives and careers of Laughlin McGillivray and Alexander McGillivray. The volume represents tweny years of meticulous detective work, during which the author has ferreted out details previously unknown, has...
Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees
One Thing Leads to Another
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
With sprightly humor and a lifetime spent observing Southern culture, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham shares memories of her childhood in Thomasville, Alabama. She affectionately recounts stories about family members, friends, and favorite pastimes. Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees recalls...
Stealth Reconstruction
An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
America seems to have little sense of how the Civil Rights Movement actually played into southern politics over the remainder of the twentieth Century. The common vision is a monolithic struggle between heroes and villains, depicted literally and figuratively in black and white. Unfortunately, this...
A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation
Based on His Experiences Beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
In 1955, when the Montgomery Bus Boycott began, author Bob Graetz was the young white pastor of a black Lutheran Church in Montgomery. His church and his home were in the black community and he and his wife among the few whites who supported the boycott. Their church and home were both bombed; their...
Jim Crow and Me
Stories From My Life As a Civil Rights Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Civil rights lawyer Solomon S. Seay, Jr. chronicles both heartening and heartbreaking episodes of his first-hand struggle to achieve the actualization of civil rights. Tempered with wit and told with endearing humility, Seay’s memoir Jim Crow and Me: Stories from My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer...
They Had No Voice
My Fight for Alabama's Forgotten Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Denny Abbott first encountered the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs as a twenty-one-year-old probation officer for the Montgomery County Family Court. He would became so concerned about conditions for black juvenile offenders there -- including hard labor, beatings, and rape...