Iron and Steel
Author: James R. Bennett
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010-07-19
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0817356118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to Birmingham area industrial heritage sites.
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Author: James R. Bennett
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010-07-19
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0817356118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to Birmingham area industrial heritage sites.
Author: Ethel Armes
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Battle Phillips
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph H. Woodward
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0817354328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGo to resource on all the furnaces that made Alabama internationally significant in the iron and steel industry This work is the first and remains the only source of information on all blast furnaces built and operated in Alabama, from the first known charcoal furnace of 1815 (Cedar Creek Furnace in Franklin County) to the coke-fired giants built before the onset of the Great Depression. Woodward surveys the iron industry from the early, small local market furnaces through the rise of the iron industry in support of the Confederate war effort, to the giant internationally important industry that developed in the 1890s. The bulk of the book consists of individual illustrated histories of all blast furnaces ever constructed and operated in the state, furnaces that went into production and four that were built but never went into blast. Written to provide a record of every blast furnace built in Alabama from 1815 to 1940, this book was widely acclaimed and today remains one of the most quoted references on the iron and steel industry.
Author: JEFF E. NEWMAN
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634992626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. David Lewis
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 0817356681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District contradicts earlier interpretations of southern industrialization by showing that Birmingham, which became a leading symbol of the New South, was in fact deeply rooted in the antebellum plantation system and its "peculiar institution," slavery. As Lewis demonstrates, southern businessmen pursued their own indigenous model of economic growth and were selective in how they imported capital, machinery, and technical expertise from outside the region. The racial crises that erupted in Birmingham during the 1960s can be traced, in part, to labor-intensive developmental strategies that were present from the birth of a city that might have become a bastion of industrial slavery if the South had won the Civil War
Author: Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1848314132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Author: Staci Simon Glover
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738582177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniquely, Jefferson County had all of the elements necessary for the fabrication of iron and steel within its borders. Coal, limestone, and iron ore all lay within close proximity to Birmingham. The right amounts of business acumen, industrial planning, and labor force came together creating the industry that made Birmingham the "Magic City." The coal mining towns in the Birmingham Industrial District have rich histories--a Hollywood movie was made in one, a novel was written about another, and a soccer championship was won in yet another town. These coal towns and the miners who lived in them are as responsible as anyone for the birth of Birmingham industry.
Author: Diane McWhorter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-06-29
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 0743226488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s 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 America’s 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 Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.