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Up Before Daylight: Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939

1 review
James Samuel Brown

University Alabama Press, 1982

great for all interested in the history of our great state
I started reading this book for a paper I was writing in one of my history classes. I loved it so much that I constantly find myself referring to it in everyday conversations. It's not your typical history book. It is a collection of essays and interviews with people that lived during the thirties told from their own mouths in southern slang. Needless, to say it is hard to put it down once you ...

Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie (Religion & American Culture)
Wayne Flynt

University Alabama Press, 1998

This text provides a history of the dominant religious group in Alabama. For nearly 50 years, half the Baptists were slaves, while many other members owned slaves. After the Civil War, the Baptist churches divided, and only white congregations remained part of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Alabama in the Twentieth Century (Modern South)

5 reviews
Wayne Flynt

University Alabama Press, 2006

A sober look at a dysfunctional state
Dr Flynt gives us a comprehensive view of the multitude of problems that face the state of Alabama, most of which stem, according to Flynt, from the state's atrocious 1901 Constitution. From powerful land barons, to racial inequality, to a regressive tax structure, to an incompetent and largely ineffective state legislature, to a simpering, craven state Supreme Court, the state Constitution lies ...

Faith, Grace, and Heresy: the Biography of Rev. Charles M. Jones.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article ...
Wayne Flynt

Southern Historical Association, 2003

This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 500 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Faith, Grace, and ...

Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: Journal of Southern ...
Wayne Flynt

Southern Historical Association, 2001

This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Lost Revolutions: The ...

Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites
Wayne Flynt

Indiana University Press, 2004

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, ...