Understanding Alabama
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Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers
by:
T.K. Thorne
4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings 3. 
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 4.10 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
by:
Dan T. Carter
4.21 avg rating — 352 ratings 
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Shot in Alabama: A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson and the South's Fight over Civil Rights
by:
Jack Bass
4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 13. 
The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97
by:
Richard A. Pride
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 13. 
With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: A History of Old-Time Fiddling In Alabama
by:
Joyce H. Cauthen
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 15. 
Weren't No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama (Real Voices, Real History Series) 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
by:
Marianne Mills
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950
by:
Mary Stanton
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 22. 
Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812
by:
Mike Bunn
3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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History Refused to Die: The Enduring Legacy of African American Art in Alabama it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
by:
Brian Kelly
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama
by:
Hester Bass
4.22 avg rating — 508 ratings 31. 
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To Remember a Vanishing World: D. L. Hightower's Photographs of Barbour County, Alabama, c. 1930-1965 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
by:
Wayne Greenhaw
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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Alabama Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
by:
Andy Duncan
3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings 37. 
Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Archaeological Salvage in the Walter F. George Basin of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama
by:
David DeJarnette
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 39. 
Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast 3.89 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Tributaries: Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association
by:
Joey Brackner
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace
by:
Marshall Frady
4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings 46. 
Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
by:
B.J. Hollars
4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 47. 
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson 4.04 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
by:
Susan Crawley
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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The Children Coming On: A Retrospective of the Montgomery Bus Boycott- And the Oral Histories of Boycott Participants
by:
Fred D. Gray
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating 52. 
Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights
by:
Doug Jones
4.20 avg rating — 383 ratings 53. 
Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case (Fire Ant Books)
by:
Frank Sikora
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings 55. 
Nonviolence Now!: Living the 1963 Birmingham Campaign's Promise of Peace
by:
Alycee J. Lane
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 56. 
Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church
by:
Edward Gilbreath
4.29 avg rating — 118 ratings 57. 
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
by:
Jonathan Rieder
4.24 avg rating — 517 ratings 58. 
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
by:
Cynthia Levinson
4.11 avg rating — 1,615 ratings 59. 
Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son (Deep South Books)
by:
Paul Hemphill
4.08 avg rating — 60 ratings 
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music 3.58 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story
by:
Richard Younger
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 
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Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City
by:
Edward O. Wilson
4.46 avg rating — 107 ratings 66. 
Flowing Through Time: A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River
by:
Lynn Willoughby
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 67. 
Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley
by:
Lynn Willoughby
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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In Celebration of a Legacy: The Traditional Arts of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
by:
George Mitchell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 71. 
The Search for Mabila: The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539 - 1543 (Two Volume Set)
by:
Lawrence Clayton
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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Looking for De Soto: A Search Through the South for the Spaniard's Trail 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating — 25,717 ratings 
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
by:
Dennis Covington
3.93 avg rating — 4,445 ratings 88. 
The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA
by:
Taylor Branch
3.98 avg rating — 224 ratings 89. 
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
by:
Taylor Branch
4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings 90. 
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
by:
Sheyann Webb
4.34 avg rating — 122 ratings 91. 
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March 4.18 avg rating — 3,869 ratings
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The Selma Campaign: Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the Defining Struggle of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Craig Swanson
4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings 93. 
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Keeping the Dream Alive: The Cases and Causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814 (Fire Ant Books) 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
by:
Alice P. Wright
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 98. 
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt 4.30 avg rating — 208 ratings