alabama

"The book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Alabama"--Provided by publisher.

The author's father courageously defended a Black man charged with raping a White woman in 1930's Alabama. His father was Foster Beck, the trial was the State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias, and it was much publicized when Harper Lee was twelve years old. It is the trial that was the inspiration for Harper Lee's book, To Kill a Mockingbird. And it is the trial that the community was heavily invested in with its dramatic testimonies and emotional outcome. It took an immense toll on those involved, including attorney Foster Beck. Joseph Madison Beck, himself an attorney, talks of his family's history and how race relations, class, and the memory of Southern defeat in the Civil War produced such a haunting distortion of justice, and how it may figure into our literary imagination.

Booker T. Washington, the son of a slave woman and a white man, recounts his rise from slavery to become the most influential black leader of his time in the U.S., and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

In the mid-1950s, twenty-six-year-old Jean Louis Finch, "Scout," returns to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus, but her homecoming turns bittersweet and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt as she uncovers truths about her family, friends, and town which are exposed by civil rights tensions and political turmoil.

"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--Publisher's web site.

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.

In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.

"Thirteen-year-old Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Gulf Coast hurricane makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put his all skills--and bravery--to the test"--Provided by publisher.

A young girl fights to keep her mother out of the mental ward, her home away from the bank, and herself out of the orphanage after her father abandons her and her mother in depression-era Alabama.