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2. History of Alabama - Wikipedia

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   The history of what is now Alabama stems back thousands of years ago when it was inhabited by indigenous peoples. The Woodland period spanned from around 1000 BCE to 1000 CE and was marked by the development of the Eastern Agricultural Complex. [1] This was followed by the Mississippian culture of Native Americans, which lasted to around the ...

3. Richard Bailey (historian) - Wikipedia

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   Alabama State University. Parents. Raymond Bailey Sr. Lottie Parks Bailey. Richard Bailey (born October 29, 1947) is an American historian. He has written history books about Alabama during the Reconstruction era and its African American leaders. [1] [2] His book Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags about African American officials in Alabama ...

4. Wayne Flynt - Wikipedia

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   Wayne Flynt. James Wayne Flynt (born October 4, 1940) is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Auburn University. [1] He has won numerous teaching awards and been a Distinguished University Professor for many years. His research focuses on Southern culture, Alabama politics, Southern religion, education reform, and poverty.

5. Albert J. Pickett - Wikipedia

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   Albert J. Pickett. Albert James Pickett ( Anson County, North Carolina, August 13, 1810 — Montgomery, Alabama, October 28, 1858) was a planter and lawyer in Autauga County, Alabama. He is known as Alabama 's first historian, having published a two-volume history of the state in 1851.

6. Hammer and Hoe - Wikipedia

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   Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression is a 1990 book on U.S. history by Robin D. G. Kelley. It describes labor, racial and social history in Alabama during the Great Depression, focusing on black communist organizing. [1] In particular Hammer and Hoe describes the way black workers brought existing traditions of ...

7. Carry Me Home (book) - Wikipedia

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   Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, is a non-fiction book about the African-American civil rights movement written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon & Schuster in 2001. The book, which is part investigative journalism and part memoir, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the 2002 ...

8. Marie Bankhead Owen - Wikipedia

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   Tallulah J. Brockman Bankhead. Marie Bankhead Owen (September 1, 1869 – March 1, 1958) was Director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History for over three decades, as well as a documentarian of Alabama history who authored numerous books on the subject. Owen served as an advisor for the Federal Writers' Project history of the state.

9. Encyclopedia of Alabama - Wikipedia

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   The Encyclopedia of Alabama is an online encyclopedia of the state of Alabama's history, culture, geography, and natural environment. It is a statewide collaboration that involves more than forty institutions from across Alabama that share their archives with the project. Auburn University hosts the encyclopedia's editorial offices and servers ...