alabama

Former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Bob Zellner reflects on his life, focusing on his years as a civil rights activist from 1960 to 1967 and the many obstacles he faced and people he met while fighting for equality.

Recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.

Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.

With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.

Includes index.

Presents information about the state of Alabama, its nickname, flag, motto, and emblems.

In 1931, a miner's family in Alabama tries to make it through the Depression while dealing with racial tension in their small town, the possibility of a disastrous mining accident, and the discovery of a dead infant in their well.

Victor investigates a roar out in Mobile Bay and finds himself in the midst of war. His boat crashes into a surfacing German U-boat and he is alternately a hostage and in hot pursuit.

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1944 rape and beating of an African-American woman by seven white men in Abbeville, Alabama, focusing on Rosa Parks' investigation into the case and the impact her involvement had on the 1955 boycott she started, which in turn led to the civil rights movement.

James "Brother" Longstreet Sayre, living with his mother and sister in their run-down boardinghouse in Snow Hill, Alabama, in 1937, learns a lot about himself as well as the ways of the world when he meets Champion Always Luckey, an African-American boy his age who has been sent from Detroit to stay with his aunt.