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Carry Me Home
by Diane McWhorter
Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights eraâÈçs climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation."The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in AmericaâÈçs long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist...
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The University Of Alabama Alumni Directory 1831-1987
by The National Alumni Association Of The University Of Alabama
Alabama Books & Ephemera
Blues, An Anthology; Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs, Edited by W.C. Handy With an Historical and Critical Text by Abbe Niles. With Pictures by Miguel Covarrubias. Revised by Jerry Silverman, New Introduction by William Ferris
by Handy, W. C., editor
New York: Da Capo Press, Inc, 1990. Paperback. 224p., Covarrubias' paintings reproduced fullpage in b&w, bulk of text comprised of music notation and lyrics, softbound in 11x8 inch decorated silver wraps. Slight edgewear to covers and a small neat ownership on half-title, this is a sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy.
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CA$27.65
Black Warrior Review: Fall/Winter 2020, Issue 47.1
by Saul, Jackson, editor
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2020. Paperback. 193, [7]p., wraps, 6x9 inches, illus. very good condition. Student literary journal, with poetry, fiction, art, and essays.
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CA$16.59
The Deaths of Animals and Lesser Gods
by Barrax, Gerald W
Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1984. Paperback. 72p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps, review copy with letter from the publisher laid in . Callalloo Poetry vol. 4. The Alabama-born African American poet's third book.
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CA$20.74
Aaron, r.f. The Story of My Life, the Good Times and the Bad, from Mobile to Milwaukee to Atlanta
by Henry Aaron [as told to Furman Bisher]
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1968. 8vo. 212 pages. Illustrated with plates from photographs. Publisher's cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Book with small splash stain to top-edge and jacket with small closed tear to rear panel; very good or better and a handsome copy. The scarce first edition, first printing of the first title in Brignano 1: "A professional baseball player, famous for his ability to hit home runs, focuses on his career, particularly with the Milwaukee Braves and the Atlanta...
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Black worker in the deep South; a personal record
by Hudson, Hosea
New York: International Publishers, 1974. Paperback. x, 130p., wraps lightly shelfworn, spine faded, second printing. Front cover depicts the author posing by a painted slogan calling for freedom for Angela Davis.
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Palestine-of-tomorrow for Jews, Christians, and Moslems
by Sha'ath, Nabil
Birmingham, AL: Committee for Better American Relations in the Middle East, 1972. 15p., 4.5x7.5 inches, staplebound pamphlet, staples rusted else very good.
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Locust Hill
by Kirk, Mary Wallace
Tuscaloosa, Al: University of Alabama Press, 1976. 2nd printing (1976); dj w/unclipped priuce, in mylar; brown tweed c w/black titles; 142 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by b/w photos, Etc. Including w/family Tree. 8 Vo.
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Lincoln and Booth and the River: And other poems
by Planck, Carolyn H
Berkeley: Golden Horn Press, 1981. Paperback. 77 pg. paperback, 5.25 x 8.5 inches. Wraps lightly shelfworn, else very good. Poetry and a radio play. Poems about the civil war, Vietnam war, and traveling. Planck was born in Alabama and attended Rollins College in 1928. She worked for the National Council for the Prevention of War in Washington DC following her graduation.
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Wine of the Spirit
by Lilian P. Long
This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, and edges, of the covers. The pages are yellowing somewhat, but the pages are clear of any markings. "Mark Robinsky's mind was not on God as he knelt in the back pew of a small church in the black belt of Alabama, one Saturday morning in the fall of 1961. However, he bowed his head and let the words, "In the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" flow through his consciousness...." - Chapter One from Wine of...
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Guntersville Remembered - Revised and Enlarged
by Smith, Larry J. & Alabama Historical Society Guntersville
Creative Printers, Inc.. New in New dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. New hardcover in a New dust jacket which has been wrapped for protection. No names or other marks. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 208 pages .
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CA$89.86
Alabama Poetry
by The Poetry Society of Alabama
This book is in good condition. There is some wear and som e staining on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The corners of the cover boards are bumped, there is writing on the front end page of the previous owner. The pages are tanned, but clear of any markings. "The Poetry Society of Alabama was founded at the Birmingham Public Library, February 7th, 1929, by Elizabeth Russell Beddoe, Bessie Webb Jaynes and Alma Rittenberry, deceased; Miriam Woodward Bethea, Louise Crenshaw Ray, Anne...
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Alabama
by Julia Coley Duncan
This book is in very good condition. The only thing missing is the dust cover. This is an over-sized and heavy book that requires additional postage. "Since its marble and granite mountains first pushed up through warm, mist-shrouded, pre-Cambrian seas, Alabama has been a land of almost mystical beauty. And Alabamians, from the earliest Indians and first pioneer settlers to today's most cosmopolitan inhabitants, have found their mind, hearts and imagination captivated by their homeland." - Alabama
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![Head Qr's Military Division of the West, Jacksonville, Ala. October 17th, 1864. General Orders No. 1 [opening lines of broadside]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/098/942/1396942098.0.b.1.jpg)
Head Qr's Military Division of the West, Jacksonville, Ala. October 17th, 1864. General Orders No. 1 [opening lines of broadside]
by [P.T.G. Beauregard]
[Jacksonville, Alabama. 1864.] 6¾ x 5¼ inches. Foxed; Very Good. A rare Confederate Alabama broadside, General Beauregard's October 17, 1864 announcement of his assumption of command of the of the Military Division of the West, issued while Beauregard was headquartered at "Ten Oaks" in Jacksonville, Alabama. Beauregard was at Ten Oaks for only a few weeks. In part: "In assuming command of this important Military Division I enjoin on all officers and soldiers harmony, zeal, implicit and prompt...
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Phylon: The Atlanta University review of race and culture; vol. 36, #2: June 1975
by Reid, John D., editor
Atlanta: Atlanta University, 1975. Magazine. iv, pp 97-219, wraps lightly worn, spine sunned, else very good condition. Articles include "The History and Social Topography of an Ethnic Island in Alabama," "Thoughts on the Study of Slavery in the Americas and the Writing of Black History," and "Tragic Aspects of the Blues.
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Tenn-Tom Country: The Upper Tombigbee Valley
by James F. Doster; David C. Weaver
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press. Very light edge wear, jacket has light rubbing, slightly faded spine. Clean copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1987.
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CA$16.59
There is no Man in the Moon Anymore: A Collection of Poems
by Griffin, Johnnie Hobson
New York: Carlton Press, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. 63 pg. hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25 inches. Dust jacket torn and shelfworn with marks on cover, else very good. Poems address the death of John F. Kennedy, Christian faith, and love. Only five entries in the OCLC as of January 2022. Hobson was born in Sawyerville, Alabama and graduated from the Alabama State Teachers College where she obtained a Master's degree in elementary education.
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De Remnant Truth: The Tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton.
by BURTON, Robert Wilton; MITCHELL, Jake; SPORT, Kathryn; HITCHCOCK, Bert
First printing, in the publisher's illustrated card stock wrappers, octavo, pp. viii, 247.
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CA$19.98
May First Committee Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1 (February 1981)
Birmingham, AL: MFC Coordinating Center, 1981. Pamphlet. [4p.], 7x8.5 inches; in very good condition.
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CA$16.59
No tears for Tina
by Hartley, Tina C
n.pl: Self-published by the author, 1990. Paperback. 224p., 4.25x6.75 inch wraps; small price sticker and small rubberstamp on title page, else in very good condition. Only one holding found in OCLC (7/2022). Letter inlaid to a prospective reviewer, signed by the author. The autobiography of a woman who was the victim of medical malpractice while recovering from a life-changing auto accident.
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CA$34.56
Advance: vol. 1 no. 4, November 1980
by Trade Union Action League National Organizing Committee
Birmingham, AL: Trade Union Action League, 1980. 6p., 8.5x14 inches, stapled at upper left, neatly creased from folding for mailing else very good condition. Also included is a special supplement, consisting of a single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, fold-creased with address stamp and small stain on verso else very good condition. Articles on workers in the western US and their fightback, a trade union democracy conference in Detroit, and more.
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Whitesburg Baptist Heritage Cookbook
Lenexa, KS: Cookbook Publishers, 2001. Spiral_bound. iii, 207p., xii, plastic comb binding, 5.5x9 inches, very good condition. The Whitesburg Baptist Church is located in Huntsville, AL.
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Open letter raising funds for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama
by Morrison, Toni, Morris Dees
Montgomery: The Southern Poverty Law Center, 2004. Six page printed letter dated November 8, 2004 with facsimile signatures (printed in-plate signatures) with two separate sheets of information including a contribution sheet and return envelope; all contained in a 9x12 inch white envelope with Morrison's name printed top-left in blue and an address in Portland, bears a canceled stamp.
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Liber selmensis, 1949 - 1950, Selma University
by Selma University
Selma, AL: Selma University, 1950. Hardcover. 91p., heavily illustrated, minor cover wear else very good condition, 8x11 inches. Year book for the historically Black Baptist University in Selma, Alabama.
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CA$269.59
Negro year book; an annual encyclopedia of the Negro, 1937-1938
by Work, Monroe N., (editor)
Tuskegee: The Negro Year Book Publishing Company, 1937. Hardcover. xiv, 575p. hardcover, corners rubbed, spine has several spots, top of spine panel worn. Library bookplate inside front cover. Work, the first African American to earn an M.A. from the University of Chicago, wound up at Tuskegee, where, in his position as director of records and research, he indefatigably compiled and systematized statistical information, historical and current, on African Americans.
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Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself
by Rosa Young (1890-1971)
St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1929.148pp. Publisher's cloth; without dust jacket. Half tone illustrations from photographs. Slight abrasion to front free endpaper abrasion; about 7 leaves with very small stains at edges of top margins; very good. First edition of this autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and "planter" considered the "Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama." Young is noted for her advocacy for education poor children in the rural South....
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