alabama

Former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Bob Zellner reflects on his life, focusing on his years as a civil rights activist from 1960 to 1967 and the many obstacles he faced and people he met while fighting for equality.

Tells the story of early civil rights martyr Bill Moore, a white postal worker who was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klan member Floyd Simpson in 1963 while on a well-publicized trek from Tennessee to issue a personal plea to Mississippi governor Ross Barnett for racial tolerance, and discusses the difficulties others encountered in trying to complete Moore's mission.

When Cory Mackenson accompanies his father on his milk route one spring day in 1964, they see a car plunge into a bottomless lake. As Cory and his father search for the truth about the incident, they come face-to-face with the forces of good and evil in their hometown.

The unconditioned and unconditional wisdom of children is shown to be superior in this story of conflict between Black and White.

Three residents of a small Southern town find their lives forever changed as they face the issue of integration in the 1960s.

Dr. John McCormack recounts the experiences he has had working as a veterinarian in Choctaw County, Alabama.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

Michael and Kyle's discovery of a rare Confederate coin near an old Civil War fort in 1973 turns into a race against time as the boys try to find more coins before a hurricane hits Alabama's Gulf coast.

At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.