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Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
Frye Gaillard
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Description for Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
Paperback. No state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more than Alabama. This book, geared toward the casual traveler and the serious student alike, tells the story of the civil rights movement in Alabama city by city, region by region, and town by town, with entries on Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Tuskegee, and Mobile. Num Pages: 376 pages, 145 illustrations, 15 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 646.
No state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. ""Alabama's Civil Rights Trail"" tells of Alabama's great civil rights events, as well as its lesser-known moments, in a compact and accessible narrative paired with a guide to Alabama's preserved civil rights sites and monuments. In his history of Alabama's civil rights movement, ""Cradle of Freedom"", Frye Gaillard contends that Alabama played the lead role in a historic movement that made all citizens of the nation, black and white, more free. This book, geared toward the casual ... Read more
No state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. ""Alabama's Civil Rights Trail"" tells of Alabama's great civil rights events, as well as its lesser-known moments, in a compact and accessible narrative paired with a guide to Alabama's preserved civil rights sites and monuments. In his history of Alabama's civil rights movement, ""Cradle of Freedom"", Frye Gaillard contends that Alabama played the lead role in a historic movement that made all citizens of the nation, black and white, more free. This book, geared toward the casual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817355814
SKU
V9780817355814
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About Frye Gaillard
Frye Gaillard, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama is the author of nineteen books, including Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America - winner of the 2005 Lillian Smith Book Award. Gaillard writes for Parade, the Oxford American, Saturday Review, and the Washington Post.
Reviews for Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
"Alabama is known around the world for its natural beauty, the Crimson Tide football team, and its southern traditions. Alabama is also known to the world as the scene, the intriguing and mythic place, for so many vital lessons of American history - specifically civil rights history.... These are places that harbor the spirits of human struggle with right and ... Read more