Tales from the Troubled South: Civil Rights in Alabama

By Catherine McGrew Jaime

This book looks at the highlights of the Civil Rights Movement across the state of Alabama: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the "Scottsboro Boys", the Selma to Montgomery March, the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and many more important events all took place within the borders of Alabama. The book also introduces you to some of the people who participated in the marches, the boycotts, and more: Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks, and others.

The book is not an encyclopedic look at the topic, but is meant to be an introduction to those in and out of Alabama to some of these important Cilvil Rights moments.

Whether you live in Alabama, or just want to know a little more about the Civil Rights Movement, this book will be sure to educate you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Catherine McGrew Jaime
• Release date: Feb 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458171283

Catherine McGrew Jaime

Historian, and Author, Homeschool Mom of 12

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Tales from the Troubled South:

Civil Rights in Alabama

Catherine McGrew Jaime

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Copyright 2011 by Catherine McGrew Jaime

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Introduction

Slavery in Alabama

Dred Scott

Sojourner Truth

Tuskegee Institute

Jim Crow Laws

Scottsboro Boys

Tuskegee Airmen

Brown Versus Board of Education

Rosa Parks & The Bus Boycott

Southern Manifesto

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

Bombingham

Freedom Rides

Project C – Confrontation

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Governor George Wallace

Selma to Montgomery March

Conclusion

Brief Timeline

Introduction

In Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech in 1968 he spoke of a mental flight from Egypt up through the time of Martin Luther and on forward to his own time.

In this little book, I want to take a mental flight backwards to the beginning of the Civil Rights struggle in Alabama. We would have to go back before the march from Selma to Montgomery, back further than the church bombings in Birmingham, back before Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on the bus.

We would have to take our mental flight back to at least the end of the 19th century. There, only a few decades after the end of the Civil War, in the little Alabama town of Tuskegee, we can find some of what I consider to be the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Alabama.

Civil Rights, the desire shared by all to be given the most basic of human rights, has had a long and painful struggle in the United