alabama

Biography of former Alabama governor and presidential candidate, George Wallace, discussing his life, political career, and place in American history.

Discusses the political career of George Wallace, four-time governor of Alabama and presidential candidate, and how he started the trend of conservatism that continues to influence politics today.

Baby Girl joins her family to assemble pieces of her quilt together, just like her grandmother and other women in her family have done for hundreds of years, telling the story of Gee's Bend and her ancestor's struggle for freedom.

Recreates the life of Bill Traylor who enriched the world with over 1200 pictures full of warmth and humor.

Evelyn Couch hears 80 year old Ninny Threadgoode's life story which centers on a cafe in the railroad town of Whistle Stop, Ala., and on Idgie and Ruth, the two women who own the cafe.

Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her mentally ill birth mother, who has just been released--after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters--and still wants to kill Frances.

The author recalls his poverty-stricken youth in Alabama in the 1960s and 70s, focusing on the extraordinary efforts of his mother to protect her sons from the violence of their father, a man scarred by war, and telling of the sacrifices she made so her children could have a better life.

In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, survived for some special purpose.

A biography of a man born into slavery in South Carolina who became a master bridge builder and, during Reconstruction, served in the Alabama state legislature.