Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21

Author: Brian Kelly

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780252069338

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In this lucid and supremely readable study, Brian Kelly challenges the prevailing notion that white workers were the main source of resistance to racial equality in the Jim Crow South. Kelly explores the forces that brought the black and white miners of Birmingham, Alabama, together during the hard-fought strikes of 1908 and 1920. He examines the systematic efforts by the region's powerful industrialists to foment racial divisions as a means of splitting the workforce, preventing unionization, and holding wages to the lowest levels in the country. He also details the role played by Birmingham's small but influential black middle class, whose espousal of industrial accommodation outraged black miners and revealed significant tensions within the African-American community.

Poor But Proud
Poor But Proud

Author: Wayne Flynt

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0817311505

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After examining origins, Flynt (Southern history, Auburn U.) studies farmers, textile workers, coal miners, and timber workers in depth and discusses family structure, folk culture, the politics of poor whites, and their attempts to resolve problems through labor unions and political movements. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

People and Things from the Walker County, Alabama Jasper Mountain Eagle (1898 - 1902)
People and Things from the Walker County, Alabama Jasper Mountain Eagle (1898 - 1902)

Author: Robin Sterling

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-10-03

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1304507483

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This second volume of news clippings from historic issues of the Walker County Mountain Eagle spans the years 1898 - 1902. Most of the issues are represented except for a large gap in 1900 where all the issues from January of that year until September are missing. This series of abstracts comes from microfilm purchased from the State Archives in Montgomery. Every issue of the Mountain Eagle was examined column by column to capture all available information regarding births, deaths, marriage notices, and relevant news items and information regarding the early history of Walker County and the surrounding area. Many death notices were compared against cemetery records at FindAGrave.com and were annotated. The history of Walker County is written in the pages of its early newspapers. This book will be a valuable asset to the serious student of Walker County genealoty and history.

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 1124

ISBN-13:

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Early Georgia Wills and Settlements of Estates, Wilkes County
Early Georgia Wills and Settlements of Estates, Wilkes County

Author: Sarah Quinn Smith

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 0806307358

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Wilkes County, Georgia, created in the year 1777, is the parent of Elbert, Oglethorpe, and Lincoln counties and parts of the counties of Greene, Hart, Madison, Taliaferro, and Warren. It comprised one-third of the population of the state in 1790. The records in this excellent little book are supplementary to Mrs. Grace G. Davidson's "Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County" (1932, 1933) and are designed to assist the researcher in making a detailed survey of the oldest records in the Ordinary's office, once known as the Inferior Court office. The records--principally wills and settlements of estates, but also deeds of gift, inheritances, and marriage bonds--have more than ordinary genealogical significance, as they name not only principals but also beneficiaries (showing relationships), as well as witnesses and executors. The material is mostly of the period dating from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries and identifies nearly 5,000 early Georgians.

The Georgians
The Georgians

Author: Jeannette Holland Austin

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0806310812

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"This is a collection of 283 genealogies which I have compiled over a period of twenty years as a professional genealogist. ... While I have dealt with some of Oglethorpe's settlers, the vast majority of the genealogies included in this collection deal with Georgians who descend from settlers from other states."--Note to the Reader.