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Mr. Brandon's School Bus
What I Heard on the Way to School
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A delightful new book from Tom Brandon, "2013 Steve Harvey Bus Driver of the Year," reminds us of the wisdom of children and their uncanny ability to teach adults a thing or two. Mr. Brandon's School Bus, published by NewSouth Books, collects in one volume the insightful and often humorous...
Against the Grain
Bombthrowing in the Fine American Tradition of Political Cartooning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
While political cartoonist Bill Sanders’s book may be a memoir, it is primarily a chronicle of his brushes with history during the era that stretched from the presidency of John Kennedy to that of Barack Obama—and of his good fortune to have had personal contact with some of the major actors on...
The Judge
The Life and Opinions of Alabama's Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the black drive for civil rights, but the changes he sought came largely in legal opinions issues by federal judges. Foremost of these was Frank Minis Johnson, Jr., of Montgomery, Alabama, who presided over some of the most emotional hearings and trials of the rights...
Swifty
A Life of Yvonne Swift
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The extraordinary story of how a devoted nun became an equally devoted campaigner for justice as a successful criminal defence lawyer. When Yvonne Benedicta Swift entered the Sacre Coeur convent in Rose Bay in 1938, she was determined to dedicate herself to religious life. But in the 1970s she did...
Watermelon Wine
The Spirit of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Originally published 25 years ago, Watermelon Wine was praised for its honest, unsentimental examination of the compassion as well as the passion behind authentic country music. Author Frye Gaillard looked at the commercialization of the Grand Ole Opry; the tradition-minded rebels such as Hank Williams,...
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
An Insiders’ Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of “the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male.” For the next 40 years—even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis—these men were denied medical care...
by Lewis Grizzard
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The 1950s were simple times to grow up. For Lewis Grizzard and his buddies, gallivanting meant hanging out at the local store, eating Zagnut candy bars and drinking "Big Orange bellywashers." About the worst thing a kid ever did was smoke rabbit tobacco rolled in paper torn from a brown...
by Lewis Grizzard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night, Lewis Grizzard once again confirms his reputation as the "William Faulkner of just plain folks" using colorful storytelling to tackle such Grizzardian subjects as: Fashion: "Don't wear anything that features a picture of a pelican, a pink flamingo,...
by Daniel Haulman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The members of the 332d Fighter Group and the 99th, 100th, 301st, and 302d Fighter Squadrons during World War II are remembered in part because they were the only African American pilots who served in combat with the Army Air Forces during the war. They are more often called the Tuskegee Airmen since...
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek
A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Even forty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner’s professors and classmates at a small church school in Alabama thought he was crazy for even wanting to do research...
They Say the Wind Is Red
The Alabama Choctaw — Lost in Their Own Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
They Say the Wind Is Red is the moving story of the Choctaw Indians who managed to stay behind when their tribe was relocated in the 1830s. Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, they had to resist the efforts of unscrupulous government agents to steal their land and resources. But they always maintained...
In Love with Defeat
The Making of a Southern Liberal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Journalist and publisher Brandt Ayers's journey takes him from the segregated Old South to covering the central scenes of the civil rights struggle, and finally to editorship of his family’s hometown newspaper, The Anniston Star. The journey was one of controversy, danger, a racist nightrider murder,...
by Daniel Haulman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The new George Lucas movie called Red Tails focuses attention on the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II and their combat operations overseas. Loaded with special effects and a great cast, the movie is thrilling and inspiring, but how accurate is it historically? Military historian Daniel Haulman takes...
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.”...