Product Description: It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), and Roots (1976)...read more

Product Description: In Eden Rise, Tom McKee, a white college freshman, returns to his home in the Alabama Black Belt in the summer of 1965 and becomes embroiled in civil-rights conflict that divides his family, his town, and his own identity. His wealthy and powerful family is not prepared for the shocks that have followed the racial quake of the Selma-to-Montgomery March a few months earlier...read more

Chronicles American race relations over the last one hundred and fifty years and sheds new light on the ideologies, from white supremacy to black nationalism, that have sculpted the landscape of race since the Civil War.

Looks at the history of race relations in Tuskegee, Alabama from 1870 to the 1970s, and traces the voter registration and civil rights movements (view table of contents)

Product Description: On June 11, 1963, The University of Alabama provided the backdrop for what would become a lasting symbol in U.S. civil right history. With his stand in the schoolhouse door staged at Foster Auditorium on the University’s campus, Governor George C...read more

Uses the experiences of an unemployed steel worker and his family in Pittsburgh to descirbe the events of the economic depression that gripped the country from 1929 through 1933.

Product Description: Norrell (history, U. of Alabama) presents a history of the College of Engineering, U. of Alabama from 1831 to 1987. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.