"The best sort of introductory study... packed with enlightening information." The Times Literary Supplement
Poor whites have been isolated from mainstream white Southern culture and have been in turn stereotyped as rednecks and Holy Rollers, discriminated against, and misunderstood. In their isolation, they have developed a unique subculture and defended it with a tenacity and pride that puzzles and confuses the larger society. Written 25 years ago, this book was one scholar s attempt to understand these people and their culture. For this new edition, Wayne Flynt has provided a new...
"The best sort of introductory study... packed with enlightening information." The Times Literary Supplement
These compelling accounts of hard times and hard work reveal human courage, dignity, and resilience from a generation that endured the Great Depression.
One achievement of the 1930s Federal Writers' Project was its ambitious collection of life histories based on interviews with southern workers and farmers. For Up before Daylight James Seay Brown chose 28 of the more than 100 accounts from throughout Alabama as a rich sampling--from the Tennessee Valley to the Gulf Coast and from cities as well as rural regions. First published in 1982, Up before Daylight is now...
These compelling accounts of hard times and hard work reveal human courage, dignity, and resilience from a generation that endured the Great Dep...
This collection of provocative and timely essays addresses the ways in which religious and educational institutions have come to define one another and American culture and identity.
Education in America-public and private, from the elementary to the university level-is the subject of urgent, ongoing debates. School vouchers, home schooling, prayer in the classrooms, sex education in the schools, and evolution versus creationism are just a few of the touchstones and flashpoints that have ignited a national dialogue concerning the role of religion in U.S. educational...
This collection of provocative and timely essays addresses the ways in which religious and educational institutions have come to define one anot...
First published in 1989 by The University of Alabama Press, Poor but Proudwas met with critical acclaim and awarded the 1990 Lillian Smith prize in nonfiction, as well as being named aCHOICEOutstanding Academic Book. This new paperback version will make the classic work available for general readers, bookstores, and classrooms. Wayne Flynt addresses the life experiences of poor whites through their occupations, society, and culture. He explores their family structure, music, religion, folklore, crafts, and politics and describes their attempts to resolve their own problems...
First published in 1989 by The University of Alabama Press, Poor but Proudwas met with critical acclaim and awarded the 1990 Lillian Smith priz...
When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing in front of his demolished home, Shuttlesworth vigorously renewed his commitment to integrate Birmingham's buses, lunch counters, police force, and parks. The incident transformed him, in the eyes of Birmingham's blacks, from an up-and-coming young minister to a virtual folk hero and, in the view of white Birmingham, from obscurity to...
When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth ...
This fascinating history underscores the importance of little people in affecting the U.S. government. It stresses the courage of a black man, Rosco Jones, and a white woman, Grace Marsh, who dared to challenge the status quo in Alabama in the early 1940s. These two Jehovah s Witnesses helped to lay a foundation for testing the constitutionality of state and local laws, establishing precedents that the Civil Rights movement, the feminist movement, and similar forces could follow. Newton has prepared a finely woven tale of oral, legal, and social history that opens a window on the world of...
This fascinating history underscores the importance of little people in affecting the U.S. government. It stresses the courage of a black man, Ros...
1993Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, "sponsored byMilitary Order of the Stars and Bars" "The Confederacy s Fighting Chaplain" is the remarkable story of the Irishman who brought the Bible and his own resourcefulness and daring to both the battlefield and the diplomatic fielda story that has been largely ignored for more than 130 years. The biography of John B. Bannon also chronicles the forgotten Southernersthe Irish immigrants of the Confederacywhose colorful and crucial role in the Civil War has been seriously neglected. John B. Bannon was born in Ireland in 1829 and raised in...
1993Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, "sponsored byMilitary Order of the Stars and Bars" "The Confederacy s Fighting Chaplain" is the remark...
The story of one of this country's major religious movements is told through the spiritual odyssey of one of its prominent spokesmen.
When Homer Hailey sparked controversy within Churches of Christ congregations over his stand on divorce and remarriage, he spoke to a movement already sundered. Historian David Edwin Harrell tells Hailey's story as a means of presenting the larger drama of faith and feuding within those churches.
A nondenominational movement of autonomous congregations, Churches of Christ have been among the fastest-growing religious bodies in the 20th century....
The story of one of this country's major religious movements is told through the spiritual odyssey of one of its prominent spokesmen.
The Disciples of Christ, led by reformers such as Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, was one of a number of early 19th-century primitivist religious groups seeking to restore the ancient order of things. This text looks at the history of the movement.
The Disciples of Christ, led by reformers such as Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, was one of a number of early 19th-century primitivist religi...
