Alabama

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/2/2022
  

  New Documentary uses Fight for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama as Lens on Present

  Vann Newkirk, whose work inspired "Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power" examines how a conservative white minority fought to keep power even after the passage of the Voting Rights Act

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• SOURCE: PBS News Hour
  11/1/2022
  

  Will Alabama Voters Strip Jim Crow Language from State Constitution?

  The framers of the 1901 constitution were direct about their goal to maintain a government controlled by whites.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/21/2022
  

  Documentary on the Last Slave Ship to Arrive in the United States Takes on Questions of Memorializing Racist Violence

  Margaret Brown's "Descendant" looks at the effort to preserve and promote Africatown, the Alabama coast community founded by people brought on the last slave ship to dock in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: PBS News Hour
  3/19/2022
  

  Will Alabama Expunge White Supremacist Language that Remains in its Constitution?

  Alabama's 1901 constitution was written expressly to enshrine white supremacy. Voters will have the chance to approve changes to its language by a ballot referendum this fall. 

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  3/8/2022
  

  Alabama "Divisive Concepts" Bill Could Impact College Grant Funding

  The new bill replaces three others, but only partially addresses concerns raised by professional educators about academic freedom and curriculum. 

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/14/2022
  

  A Guide to Touring Alabama's Civil Rights Trail

  Two AJC reporters offer a guide to those interested in marking Black History Month with a tour of Alabama's major civil rights sites, memorials and museums. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/14/2022
  

  U of Alabama to Rename Building for Desegregation Pioneer Autherine Lucy (Without Name of KKK Leader)

  A massive public outcry pushed the university's trustees to name the building solely after Lucy, without the name of former governor and Klansman Bibb Graves. 

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  1/16/2022
  

  Ambushed in Eufaula: Alabama's Forgotten Racist Massacre

  In 1874 a group of Black Republicans who came to the town of Eufaula to vote were ambushed by white mobs, part of the Democratic overthrow of Reconstruction and a step toward reestablishing white supremacy in the state.

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  1/12/2022
  

  Alabama's Capitol is a Crime Scene, with a 120 Year Coverup

  The Alabama Capitol in Montgomery was the first seat of the Confederate government and the place where white Democrats ratified a Jim Crow constitution in 1901. You'd learn little of this by touring the museum-like building. 

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• SOURCE: Protean
  12/17/2021
  

  Dead Man Running (Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Jim Crow Blues Again)

  by Ryan Zickgraf

  Mobile's current municipal elections combined the bizarre with the bureaucratic and institutional politics of racism. 

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  10/3/2021
  

  Project Seeks to Name the Foot Soldiers of Selma's Bloody Sunday

  Auburn University professors Richard Burt and Keith Hebert, working with a group of honors college students, have established a Facebook page where people can look through photographs of March 7, 1965, and identify themselves or others in the black-and-white images.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/4/2021
  

  Alabama Spends More than a Half Million Annually on a Confederate Memorial; Black Historical Sites Struggle

  "It is the only museum in the state that has a dedicated revenue stream codified in the state’s constitution. So while other museums struggle to keep their doors open, search for grants for funding and depend on volunteer staff, the Confederate Memorial Park is flush with cash."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/19/2021
  

  Alabama Begins to Remove Racist Language from State Constitution

  The 1901 Alabama constitution explicitly declared its intention to preserve the power of "the Anglo-Saxon race." A committee is now preparing a version stripped of racist language which will go before the voters next year for ratification. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/13/2021
  

  Tuskegee, Alabama Confederate Memorial at Center of Lawsuit in Majority-Black City

  The presence of the statue in the city, home of the historic Tuskegee University and training place of the famed World War II aviation heroes, has angered locals for decades. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/6/2021
  

  Stolen Confederate Monument will Become a 'Toilet' Unless ‘White Lies Matter’ Demands are Met, Group Vows

  The group claiming responsibility has issued a ransom demand: the United Daughters of the Confederacy can secure the return of the chair by flying a banner quoting Black radical Assata Shakur over its Richmond, Virginia headquarters. 

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  3/31/2021
  

  What a Unionization Effort in Alabama Could Mean for the Labor Movement

  Historian Keri Leigh Merritt discusses the Amazon unionization vote in the context of southern labor history.

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  4/5/2021
  

  'White Lies Matter' Group Claims Responsibility, Demands Ransom For Stolen Confederate Monument

  "We took their toy, and we don't feel guilty about it," the letter from the group says. "They never play with it anyway. They just want it there to remind us what they've done, what they are still willing to do.

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  3/29/2021
  

  The Ultimate David and Goliath Fight in Alabama

  The effort to organize Amazon Workers in Bessemer, Alabama may succeed if it connects the cause of labor to broader civil rights issues that resonate with the local Black community and echo the involvement of Martin Luther King in struggles for workers and economic justice, say historians Keri Leigh Merritt and Michael Innis-Jiménez. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  3/23/2021
  

  Who Were the Scottsboro Nine?

  Paul Guardullo of the National Museum of African American History and Culture discusses the power dynamics in the 1931 south that made nine Black men vulnerable to a false rape accusation, and the way that the supporters of the Scottsboro Nine challenged unequal justice. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/22/2021
  

  How a Detective Who Was Blamed for One Lynching Solved Another

  Wilbur Williams was suspended for a 1976 incident of police brutality that evidence shows he wasn't involved in, and butted heads with the Mobile, Alabama political establishment. In 1981, he led a contentious investigation that led to the conviction of KKK members for a lynching that nearly tore the city apart.