From Civil War to civil rights--Alabama, 1860-1960: an anthology from the Alabama review

1070 Pages·1987·2.61 MB·English

by  Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins

From Civil War to Civil Rights--Alabama,
title: 1860-1960 : An Anthology From the
Alabama Review
author: Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk
publisher: University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin: 0817303413
print isbn13: 9780817303419
ebook isbn13: 9780585223919
language: English
Alabama--History--1819-1950, Alabama--
subject
History--1951-
publication date: 1987
lcc: F326.5.F76 1987eb
ddc: 976.1/06
Alabama--History--1819-1950, Alabama--
subject: History--1951-
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From Civil War to Civil Rights Alabama
18601960
An Anthology from the Alabama Review
Compiled by
Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins
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Copyright © 1987 by
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk, 1934
From Civil War to civil rightsAlabama, 18601960.
Includes index.
1. AlabamaHistory18191950. 2. Alabama
History1951 . I. Alabama review (University,
Ala.) II. Title.
F326.5.W54 1987 976.1'06 86-25068
ISBN-0-8173-0341-3
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
is available.
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TO THE MEMORY OF
Milo Barrett Howard, Jr.
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Introduction 1
Civil War and Reconstruction
The Young Manhood of William L. Yancey 7
Ralph B. Draughon, Jr.
Selma and the Confederate States Navy 18
William N. Still
The Cahawba Military Prison, 18631865 34
Peter A. Brannon
The 1863 Raid of Abel D. Streight: Why It Failed 43
James F. Cook
Five Men Called Scalawags 57
Sarah van V. Woolfolk
Carpetbaggers in Alabama: Tradition Versus Truth 67
Sarah van Woolfolk
Josiah Gorgas and the Brierfield Iron Works 77
Frank E. Vandiver
Female Planters and Planters' Wives in Civil War and 94
Reconstruction: Alabama, 18501870
Jonathan M. Wiener
Bourbonism and Populism
The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Alabama 109
Agriculture
Grady McWhiney
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The Alabama State Grange 133
William Warren Rogers
William Manning Lowe and the Greenback Party in 145
Alabama
Frances Roberts
The Farmers' Alliance in Alabama 162
William Warren Rogers
Governor Johnston's Attempt to Unseat Senator Morgan, 173
18991900
Joseph A. Fry
Progressive Era
Political Reforms of the Progressive Era 203
Allen W. Jones
Comer, Smith, and Jones: Alabama's Railroad War of 221
19071914
James F. Doster
Edgar Gardner Murphy and the Child Labor Movement 231
Hugh C. Bailey
George Gordon Crawford: Man of the New South 242
Marlene Hunt Rikard
Religion in the Urban South: The Divided Religious Mind 257
of Birmingham, 19001930
Wayne Flynt
The Woman Suffrage Movement in Alabama, 19101920 279
Lee N. Allen
The Twenties
Henry Ford and Muscle Shoals 297
Leslie S. Wright
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Fiery Crosses in the Roaring Twenties: Activities of the 309
Revised Klan in Alabama, 19151930
William R. Snell
The 1924 Underwood Campaign in Alabama 326
Lee N. Allen
Bibb Graves as a Progressive, 19271930 336
William E. Gilbert
Alabama Politics, J. Thomas Heflin, and the Expulsion 349
Movement of 1929
J. Mills Thornton III
The Great Depression
Spindle, Mine, and Mule: The Poor White Experience in 377
PostCivil War Alabama
Wayne Flynt
World War II and Beyond
The Old Order Changes: Graves, Sparks, Folsom, and the 415
Gubernatorial Election of 1942
William D. Barnard
The Senate's Rejection of Aubrey Williams as Rural 432
Electrification Administrator
Leonard Dinnerstein
James E. Folsom's 1946 Campaign 441
Carl Grafton
Challenge and Response in the Montgomery Bus Boycott 463
of 19551956
J. Mills Thornton III