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book: Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom (Ala… No other state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more thoroughly than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer.

book: Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1… Carry It On is an in-depth study of how the local struggle for equality in Alabama fared in the wake of new federal laws―the Civil Rights Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, and the Voting Rights Act.

book: Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association…

book: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History … Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.

book: Beside the Troubled Waters: A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil R… Beside the Troubled Waters is a memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era while also illustrating the diversity of the black experience in the medical profession.

book: Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Fred W. Morrison… Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movement in Alabama -- the center of Party activity in the Depression South.

book: Alabama Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 193… The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex-slaves during the 1930s.

book: Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.

book: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews… This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers.

book: Slavery in Alabama (Library Alabama Classics) Since its initial publication in 1950, Slavery in Alabama remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama.

book: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Rev… Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation.

book: Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last A… Winner of the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, the 2009 G. Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association and a 2008 finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, this acclaimed volume tells the moving story of the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves--more than fifty years after the United States abolished the international slave trade.

book: Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalizatio… In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South.

book: Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s.

book: Beside the Troubled Waters: A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil R… Beside the Troubled Waters is a memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era while also illustrating the diversity of the black experience in the medical profession.

book: Alabama Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 193… The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex-slaves during the 1930s.

book: Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama (Margaret Walker Alexan… Raised Up Down Yonder attempts to shift focus away from why black youth are “problematic” to explore what their daily lives actually entail.