Alabama's Civil Rights Trail

by Gaillard, Frye

• ISBN13: 9780817355814
• ISBN10: 0817355812
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

The story of the Civil rights movement in Alabama is told city by city, region by region, and town by town, with entries on Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Tuskegee, and Mobile, as well as chapters on the Black Belt and the Alabama hill country. Smaller but important locales such as Greensboro, Monroeville, and Scottsboro are included, as are more obscure sites like Hale County's Safe House Black History Museum and the birthplace of the Black Panther Party in Lowndes County. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Alabama's Civil Rights Timeline	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xxiii
The Montgomery Story: Hallowed Ground	p. 1
Drawing the Line	p. 2
Sidebar: Flip Side of the Marker	p. 10
Men of God	p. 11
A White Preacher's Courage	p. 20
The Frank M. Johnson Federal Courthouse: Victory in the Courts	p. 23
The Freedom Riders	p. 29
Sidebar: The Legacy of Alabama State University	p. 30
Food for the Body and Soul	p. 38
The Southern Poverty Law Center: Keeper of the Flame	p. 41
Sidebar: City of St. Jude	p. 42
Birmingham and the American Conscience	p. 49
the Children	p. 50
Boutwell Auditorium: Dark Days Ahead	p. 59
Birmingham's Man of Steel	p. 62
Sidebar: Miles College: "We Shall Overcome"	p. 63
Armstrong's Barber Shop and the "Ushers"	p. 70
Sidebar: Birmingham and the Freedom Rides	p. 76
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: Four Little Girls	p. 74
Sidebar: The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute	p. 84
Selma and the Right to Vote	p. 87
The Quiet Beginning	p. 89
The Courthouse and Sheriff Jim Clark	p. 93
Sidebar: Another Boynton in History	p. 94
Sidebar: Malcolm X in Selma	p. 100
The Edmund Pettus Bridge: Bloody Sunday and Beyond	p. 102
Selma University: Cradle of Heroes	p. 110
Sidebar: Dr. Sullivan Jackson's House	p. 111
Sidebar: Church and State	p. 112
Alabama's First Black Congressman	p. 114
Selma: City of Museums	p. 117
Revolution in the Black Belt	p. 123
Lowndes County: Two Martyrs and the Vote	p. 125
Sidebar: Highway 80: The Road to Freedom	p. 133
The Black Panthers	p. 134
The Martyrdom of Jimmie Lee Jackson	p. 138
Coretta Scott King: First Lady of the Movement	p. 145
The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Wilcox County	p. 150
Marengo County: Reclaiming the History	p. 156
Sidebar: James Haskins, 1941-2005	p. 163
Hale County's Safe House	p. 164
Greene County and Dr. King's Farewell	p. 167
Tuscaloosa and the Schoolhouse Door	p. 171
George Wallace Makes His Stand	p. 173
The Ordeal of Autherine Lucy	p. 180
Sidebar: The Making of a Mob	p. 186
Sidebar: First African Baptist Church	p. 188
RFK: A Measure of Change	p. 191
The Curious Legacy of "The Bear"	p. 194
The Tuskegee Story	p. 197
Booker T. Washington: Lifting the Veil	p. 199
The Tuskegee Airmen	p. 204
Sidebar: The Carver Museum	p. 205
Shiloh: Rosenwald Schools and the Syphilis Study	p. 212
Dr. Gomillion and the Vote	p. 217
SNCC and the Killing of Sammy Younge Jr.	p. 222
Sidebar: A Transfer of Power	p. 227
Sidebar: "Invisible Man"	p. 228
The Burning Bus and the Alabama Hills	p. 229
Anniston: The Library and the Bus	p. 231
Gadsden and the Cattle Prods	p. 238
Talladega College and the Amistad Murals	p. 243
Sidebar: The Message of Jerry "Boogie" McCain	p. 244
Huntsville: A History in Pieces	p. 249
Sidebar: Dred Scott, Little Richard, and Oakwood University	p. 255
Mobile: City of Progress, City of Backlash	p. 257
John LeFlore, Joseph Langan, and NOW	p. 259
Spring Hill College: The First to Integrate	p. 267
Africatown and the Last Slave Ship	p. 272
Sidebar: Wallace Turnage: "A Slave No More"	p. 277
Completing the Journey	p. 280
The Last Lynching, Death to the Klan	p. 283
Southern Justice in Mobile	p. 287
Other Places of Interest	p. 293
The New Old South	p. 294
Sidebar: The Eastern Shore	p. 299
Monroeville: The Community of Atticus Finch	p. 298
Alabama Heroes	p. 304
The Legacy of Alabama Music	p. 309
The Scottsboro Boys	p. 314
Ardmore: Terror in the Night	p. 319
Acknowledgments and Sources	p. 323
Suggested Reading	p. 331
Index	p. 333
About the Authors	p. 347
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