As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for …
Here, for the first time, the fighting done by Hilliard’s Legion, a part of Archibald Gracie’s Brigade of Alabama Confederates, is examined in detail. Lee Elder’s research shows …
The Birmingham Black Barons was a nationally known team in baseball’s Negro leagues from 1920-1962. Among its storied players were Baseball Hall of Famers Satchel Paige, Willie …
This is a collection of letters written by nine African American defendants in the infamous March 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case. Though most of the defendants were barely …