Alabama

Alabama

Refrains from decades-old civil rights struggles recur in the debate on gay marriage and Confederate memorials, and the state’s manufacturing base has once again been built with the help of outsiders. Gov. Bibb Graves; Sen. and future Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black; Rep. Lister Hill, who authored...

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Format: Book
Language:eng
Subjects:
Baptist churches
Civil rights movements
Education
Historic trails
Manufacturing
Murders & murder attempts
Museums
Parks, Rosa (1913-2005)
Populism
Presidential elections
State elections
Steel production
Unemployment
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Summary:Refrains from decades-old civil rights struggles recur in the debate on gay marriage and Confederate memorials, and the state’s manufacturing base has once again been built with the help of outsiders. Gov. Bibb Graves; Sen. and future Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black; Rep. Lister Hill, who authored Tennessee Valley Authority legislation in the House of Representatives; 1952 vice presidential nominee John Sparkman; and Gov. James E. “Big Jim” Folsom Sr. (The bombers were convicted in 1977, 2001 and 2002, the latter two defendants prosecuted by Doug Jones, who would later win an underdog race for a U.S. Senate seat.) In March 1965, scores of marchers who had been catalyzed by the murder of civil rights advocate Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion were severely beaten by police at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge en route to Montgomery, including future Rep. John Lewis. The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail runs along U.S. Highway 80, and the Alabama Civil Rights Museum Trail includes the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site and the 16th Street Baptist Church.
ISSN:0362-076X
2328-5257