alabama

"One journalist's memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the ... access they gave her to share the story of their lives"--Provided by publisher.

Since the early nineteenth century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. This photo-essay book explores their history and culture.

"Thirteen-year-old Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Gulf Coast hurricane makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put his all skills--and bravery--to the test"--Provided by publisher.

In the mid-1950s, twenty-six-year-old Jean Louis Finch, "Scout," returns to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus, but her homecoming turns bittersweet and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt as she uncovers truths about her family, friends, and town which are exposed by civil rights tensions and political turmoil.

In Gee's Bend, Alabama, Miz Pettway tells young Alex about the historic role her mule played in the struggle for civil rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes factual information about the community of Gee's Bend and Martin Luther King, Jr.

In Alabama, in the summer of 1961, twelve-year-old Johnny Cannon gets mixed up in a Mafia blood feud as he searches for his happy ending with Martha Macker.

Surveys the history, geography, government, and economy of Alabama, as well as the diverse ways of life of its people.

"Give[s] readers a...glimpse into the boyhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. John wants to be a preacher when he grows up--a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice. Includes an author's note about John Lewis, who grew up to be a member of the Freedom Riders, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and demonstrator on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and is now a Georgia congressman"--Provided by publisher.

"The book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Alabama"--Provided by publisher.

The author's father courageously defended a Black man charged with raping a White woman in 1930's Alabama. His father was Foster Beck, the trial was the State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias, and it was much publicized when Harper Lee was twelve years old. It is the trial that was the inspiration for Harper Lee's book, To Kill a Mockingbird. And it is the trial that the community was heavily invested in with its dramatic testimonies and emotional outcome. It took an immense toll on those involved, including attorney Foster Beck. Joseph Madison Beck, himself an attorney, talks of his family's history and how race relations, class, and the memory of Southern defeat in the Civil War produced such a haunting distortion of justice, and how it may figure into our literary imagination.