Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these items are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio station websites. Enjoy!
Hundreds risked everything in Selma 56 years ago today. This group is trying to identify them
Debra Barnes Wilson was 8 on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama. ... her life and why the day is one of the most important in American history.
| Author Explores Preacher Father's Silence On Racial Injustice In 1960s Alabama His father had a pulpit at a critical time and place in American history, 1960S Alabama. John Archibald found his father's old sermons and used them ... |
Author Deborah Lamb's new book “Urban Legends of the South” is a spellbinding collection of ten ...
... Deborah Lamb is a compelling compilation of southern ghost stories rooted in historical buildings across Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana.
| EJI Partners with Community to Dedicate Historical Marker in Irondale, Alabama ... the Jefferson County Memorial Project to unveil a historical marker for William Wardley, a Black man lynched in Irondale, Alabama, on December 7, ... |
| Jefferson County Memorial Project's searing report on Linn Park's racial history This space has the potential to bring people together across divides while sharing, remembering and taking part of Alabama's and Birmingham's history.”. |
New Book Highlights Founding of Alabama State University
alabamanewscenter.com. In the recently released “From Marion to Montgomery: The Early Years of Alabama State University, 1867-1925,” author ...
This 1962 Alabama school cookbook captures Black history, recipes
Trinity High School, which operated in Athens, Alabama from 1865 until 1970, was the only Limestone County school for Black students. The county ...
DON NOBLE: A look at films set in the South from “Gone With the Wind” to “Gump”
Readers cannot help but be astonished by the scope of this book, by the ... Among the Dixie states, Alabama has been the subject and setting for a ...
By the book: Authors bring naval, African-American history into focus
Alabama author Patti Callahan has fictionalized the sinking of the “Pulaski” in her novel “Surviving Savannah.” The main character is Everly Winthrop, ...
| Sheila Washington, founder of Alabama civil rights museum, dies at 61 Sheila Washington, who founded an Alabama museum dedicated to the ... Ms. Washington knew nothing of this history when she was growing up in ... |
| 'From Marion to Montgomery' sheds new light on the founding, history of Alabama State University While assisting an Auburn University graduate student researching Perry County history, Caver was told, “they've got it all wrong over there. … The ... |
What an 1870 Race Riot Tells Us About White Supremacy in America Today
Black History Month may be drawing to an end, but The Atlantic's ... project by talking about the historic riots that took place in Eutaw, Alabama in 1870.
| Alabama man rebuilds father's race car from the 1930s LOCUST FORK, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama has a rich history of racing like Talladega and the Motor Sports Hall of Fame. One part of the state where ... |
| America's Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama They know how history can ripple through time; how politicians and private actors bend systems to maintain control; and how racism and white ... |
| 'From Marion to Montgomery' sheds new light on the founding, history of Alabama State University While assisting an Auburn University graduate student researching Perry County history, Caver was told, “they've got it all wrong over there. … The ... |
| Alabama Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks recalls her civil rights journey “That was part of history. That's the way I look upon it.” Violence in Alabama. The first Freedom Ride rolled out of Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961 ... |
| More than 50 years later, Sam 'Bam' Cunningham reflects on historic USC-Alabama game It helped change college football history. In 1970, Alabama's football program had yet to integrate. No Black player had seen playing time on the varsity ... |
| Africantown builds a museum for the slave ship Clotilda There's a part of the story, but it's a larger story and the History Museum working with the Alabama Historical Commission is creating this exhibit to tell ... |
Monroe County Courthouse named National Historic Landmark
MONROEVILLE, Ala. (WKRG) — The iconic Monroe County Courthouse in Monroeville has been named a National Historic Landmark. Fewer than 3 ...
| The believer: Arthur Madison launched a voter registration in Montgomery in 1944 — and paid a ... The Alabama State Bar's website still lists Madison as disbarred. The gravesite of Arthur Madison ... |
| 'They're a part of history' | Descendants of last-known slave ship survivors work to keep legacy alive The Clotilda arrived in Alabama's Mobile Bay in 1860. The ship was later burned and sunk to hide evidence of the illegal transport. The trip was illegal ... |
WAAY 31 Black History Month Spotlight: WC Handy
16,1873, in Florence Alabama. Handy's musical interest started in early childhood - but because having musical talents and playing instruments were ...
| Alabama's Ann Berry set to be sworn in as first Black secretary of the Senate The significance of being sworn in one day after the conclusion of Black History Month and on the first day of Women's History Month is not lost on ... |
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