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Rocket City Rock & Soul
In a state widely considered ground zero for civil rights struggles, Huntsville became an unlikely venue for racial reconciliation. Huntsville,s recently formed NASA station drew …
Dream Long Deferred
A fifty-year history of one community's battles with race in public educationThe Dream Long Deferred tells the fifty-year story of the landmark struggle for desegregation in …
The Poetry of Faith : Sermons Preached in a Southern Church
The ministry of the Rev. Stephen F. Dill was forged in the turbulent civil rights years when he stood for social justice and spoke against racial segregation. In this collection of …
Go South to Freedom
Finalist for the 2016 Foreword Indies Best Book Award — Juvenile FictionWinner of the Jefferson Cup Honor Book AwardFinalist for the Housatonic Book AwardMore than twenty years …
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
Alabama s great civil rights events in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama s preserved civil rights sites and monuments No other state has …
The Southernization of America : A Story of Democracy in the Balance
Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the South in America’s long descent into Trumpism. …
Cradle of Freedom
Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., …
The Quilt : And the Poetry of Alabama Music
With a combination of song lyrics and reflective essays, Alabama author Frye Gaillard and recording artist Kathryn Scheldt pay tribute to the literary legacy of Alabama …
In the Path of the Storms
The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two of Alabama s most distinctive, with roots going back to the French settlements of the 18th century. For generations, the …
The Books That Mattered : A Reader’s Memoir
Frye Gaillard’s first encounters with books were disappointing. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales – "stories of cannibalism and mayhem in which giants and witches, …
Journey to the Wilderness : War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters
On the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the war—and the way we remember it—through letters written by his family, …
Prophet from Plains
Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carters major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his …