Historic Birmingham & Jefferson County
Author : James Ronald Bennett
Publisher : Historical Publishing Network
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The Heritage of Jefferson County, Alabama
Author :
Publisher : Heritage Publishing Consultants
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Jefferson County (Ala.)
ISBN : 9781891647543
Book Description
Coal Mining in Jefferson County
Author : Staci Simon Glover
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738582177
Book Description
Uniquely, Jefferson County had all of the elements necessary for the fabrication of iron and steel within its borders. Coal, limestone, and iron ore all lay within close proximity to Birmingham. The right amounts of business acumen, industrial planning, and labor force came together creating the industry that made Birmingham the "Magic City." The coal mining towns in the Birmingham Industrial District have rich histories--a Hollywood movie was made in one, a novel was written about another, and a soccer championship was won in yet another town. These coal towns and the miners who lived in them are as responsible as anyone for the birth of Birmingham industry.
Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Author : Paula J. Giddings
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0061972940
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings Ida B. Wells was born into slavery and raised in the Victorian age yet emerged—through her fierce political battles and progressive thinking—as the first “modern” black women in the nation’s history. Wells began her activist career when she tried to segregate a first-class railway car in Memphis. After being thrown bodily off the car, she wrote about the incident for black Baptist newspapers, thus beginning her career as a journalist. But her most abiding fight would be the one against lynching, a crime in which she saw all the themes she held most dear coalesce: sexuality, race, and the law.
Historic Photos of Birmingham
Author : James L. Baggett
Publisher : Turner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Birmingham (Ala.)
ISBN : 9781596522541
Book Description
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF BIRMINGHAM captures the remarkable journey of this cultural city of the South, with still photography from the finest archives of city, state and private collections. Through the late 1800's, the roaring Twenties, two World Wars and into the modern era, Birmingham has continued to grow and prosper by maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens. With hundreds of archival photos reproduced in stunning duotone on heavy art paper, this book is the perfect addition to any historian's collection.
Old Tannehill
Author : JAMES R. BENNETT
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 1987-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780961725709
Book Description
Birmingham Beer
Author : Carla Jean Whitley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1625849842
Book Description
Less than fifteen years after the birth of Birmingham, its brewing history began, and soon saloons dotted nearly every corner. Prohibition, however, decimated the brewing scene for eighty-five years. Although national Prohibition began in 1920, Jefferson County voted to go dry in 1907. Alabama beer saw a brief resurgence after the Brewpub Act of 1992, as craft beer's popularity grew nationwide. But the brewpubs and breweries that emerged struggled against the state's restrictive laws, which included such stipulations as locating brewpubs in historic districts and limiting beer bottle sizes to sixteen ounces. By the time grass-roots lobbying organization Free the Hops formed in 2004 to fight those restrictive laws, every Birmingham brewery had closed. Join author Carla Jean Whitley as she uncovers the struggle to make local beer a Birmingham staple.
Trussville, Alabama
Author : Gary Lloyd
Publisher : Brief History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626191853
Book Description
Long before Trussville became the commercial hub of northeastern Jefferson County, settlers fell in love with the area's fertile land and proximity to Alabama's longest free-flowing river, the Cahaba. In the late 1930s, a New Deal initiative known as the Cahaba Project established nearly three hundred new homes in the city, a community that became a historic treasure. The Trussville Academy opened its doors in 1869 and is the area's first educational institution. Camp Gertrude Coleman, which opened in 1925, is the third-longest-operating Girl Scouts camp in the nation, remaining open even during the Great Depression and World War II. Join author Gary Lloyd as he recounts the people and events that make Trussville one of the most desirable places to live in Alabama.
Birmingham and Jefferson County Alabama
Author : Jefferson County Historical Commission
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2010-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738587301
Book Description
From its founding as a steel-making area that rivaled any in the world for quality and quantity, to its present-day role as a leading banking, retail, and medical center for the New South, the rolling, iron-rich land of Jefferson County has been well represented in picture postcards. Roving photographers and those from local studios captured scenes of civic, business, and private life, and made them into postcards that were sent around the world. Birmingham and Jefferson County, Alabama takes the reader on a visual tour of such landmarks as the Tutwiler Hotel, the Empire Building, Rickwood Field, Legion Field, Arlington, and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Explore the beginnings of world-class medical facilities, the rise of the iron and steel industry, and the rich cultural heritage that the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, Greeks, and other ethnic groups brought to the area.
The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill
Author : Helen Shores Lee
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0310336236
Book Description
These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district—a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores family lived, earning their neighborhood the nickname “Dynamite Hill.” Due to his work, Shores’ daughter, Barbara, barely survived a kidnapping attempt. Twice, in 1963, Klan members bombed their home, sending Theodora to the hospital with a brain concussion and killing Tasso, the family’s cocker spaniel. The family narrowly escaped a third bombing attempt on their home in the spring of 1965. The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill is an incredible story of a family’s unfair suffering, but also of the Shores’ overcoming. This family’s sacrificial commitment, courage, determination, and triumph inspire us today through this story and the selfless service, work, and lives of Helen Shores Lee and Barbara Sylvia Shores.
