The Tragedy And The Triumph Of Phenix City Alabama
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The Tragedy And The Triumph Of Phenix City Alabama
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Author : Margaret Anne Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Tragedy And The Triumph Of Phenix City Alabama written by Margaret Anne Barnes and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Crime prevention categories.
Writer Barnes tells the story of a corrupt, crime-ridden city, examining events that unfolded during 1916-1955. Phenix City had been a 19th-century refuge from law enforcement for 120 years until three men in succession challenged the status quo. To reconstruct the story the author draws on notes and private papers of the principals and investigators; depositions, trial transcripts, and court records; daily newspaper coverage; and transcripts of wire-tapped recordings of the city's gamblers and politicians. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Wicked Phenix City
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Author : Faith Serafin
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Wicked Phenix City written by Faith Serafin and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with History categories.
Before Las Vegas, there was Phenix City, Alabama--the original sin city. Once the sprawling capital of the Muscogee Indian Empire, the region took a sinister turn when a holy war engulfed the southern territories in 1812, leading to the murder of the infamous Chief William McIntosh. Later, atrocities continued at Fort Mitchell, the killing grounds for early Georgia politicians who fought to the death over rival politics and bitter feuds. By the 1950s, Phenix City was home to the "Dixie Mafia," and crime and corruption ruled over the little riverfront city. Take a walk with author Faith Serafin as she travels through the darkest recesses of Phenix City's past.
Patterson For Alabama
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Author : Gene L. Howard
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2008-05-21
Patterson For Alabama written by Gene L. Howard and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-21 with History categories.
The first and only historical account of the John Patterson administration
Nobody But The People
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Author : Warren A. Trest
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Nobody But The People written by Warren A. Trest and has been published by NewSouth Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this first authorized biography of former Alabama governor John Patterson, he is revealed as a complex and likeable politician and jurist whose career was unfortunately blighted by decisions he later regretted on racial issues.
Alabama Curiosities
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Author : Andy Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-06-02
Alabama Curiosities written by Andy Duncan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with History categories.
Discover Alabama's curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Coon Dog Cemetery, learn about the cattle-mutilation mystery, view the world's largest boll weevil, and sip Kudzu Tea. Only a true Southerner could capture the essence of these and other authentic Alabama phenomena, and Andy Duncan does his home state proud.
When Good Men Do Nothing
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Author : Alan Grady
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2005-03-06
When Good Men Do Nothing written by Alan Grady and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The assassination of Albert Patterson.
Hazel Brannon Smith
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Author : Jeffery B. Howell
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-03-22
Hazel Brannon Smith written by Jeffery B. Howell and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994) stood out as a prominent white newspaper owner in Mississippi before, during, and after the civil rights movement. As early as the mid-1940s, she earned state and national headlines by fighting bootleggers and corrupt politicians. Her career was marked by a progressive ethic, and she wrote almost fifty years of columns with the goal of promoting the health of her community. In the first half of her career, she strongly supported Jim Crow segregation. Yet, in the 1950s, she refused to back the economic intimidation and covert violence of groups such as the Citizens" Council. The subsequent backlash led her to being deemed a social pariah, and the economic pressure bankrupted her once-flourishing newspaper empire in Holmes County. Rejected by the white establishment, she became an ally of the black struggle for social justice. Smith's biography reveals how many historians have miscast white moderates of this period. Her peers considered her a liberal, but her actions revealed the firm limits of white activism in the rural South during the civil rights era. While historians have shown that the civil rights movement emerged mostly from the grass roots, Smith's trajectory was decidedly different. She never fully escaped her white paternalistic sentiments, yet during the 1950s and 1960s she spoke out consistently against racial extremism. This book complicates the narrative of the white media and business people responding to the movement's challenging call for racial justice.
Wicked City
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Author : Ace Atkins
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-03-07
Wicked City written by Ace Atkins and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with Fiction categories.
In 1955, Look magazine called Phenix City, Alabama, 'The Wickedest City in America,' a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispatch. When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause just for a moment-and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide that they have had enough, but what that means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people will die, and unexpected heroes will emerge - 'like a Randolph Scott western,' one of them remarks, 'played out not with horses and Winchesters but with Chevys and .38s and switchblades.' Atkins draws from the worlds of pulp and Faulkner in Wicked City, using characters from the town's true history to tell a story of the best and worst of morality, and the ambiguity in between. Critical Praise: "This is the classic Western tale of good vs. evil, 'played out not with horses and Winchesters but with Chevys and Fords and .38s and switchblades.' The result is a gripping, superb crime story, all the more remarkable because it really did happen. Highly recommended." Library Journal
What A Life
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Author : Andrea Hurley
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2004
What A Life written by Andrea Hurley and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Josephine "Dadie" Jordan. Dadie, the niece of famed Charles Dana Gibson (creator of the Gibson Girl and former owner of Life Magazine) was born into a well-connected and powerful Washington, D.C., family, but learned at an early age that the life of a society girl was not for her. She set off on the journey of a lifetime, and her compelling story is a tug-o'-war between tragedy and triumph. Her only goal was to live life on her own terms no matter the consequences, and she did just that. Although Dadie manages to be simple and highly complicated at the same time, given the totality of her life, one can only admire her. Because she insisted on living her life on her terms and in her own way, her story is filled with ebbs and flows. These ebbs and flows are anything but minor, and her trials and tribulations are of the most consequential nature. Given the twists and turns in this book, one would think it must be a work of fiction. It's not fiction. This is the real-life story of one woman who constantly overcame obstacles in order to turn her dreams into reality. The public and the media often seem to be under the impression that celebrities and politicians are the only people worth writing about. Dadie Jordan takes the reader through her complex life, baring all and proving that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Mobilizing The South
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Author : Christopher M. Rein
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2022-08-23
Mobilizing The South written by Christopher M. Rein and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-23 with History categories.
"Throughout its history, the United States has fought its major wars by mobilizing large numbers of citizen-soldiers. While the small, peacetime, regular army provided trained leadership and a framework for growth, the citizen-soldier, from the minuteman of the American Revolution to Civil War volunteers and the draftees of World War II, have successfully prosecuted the nation's major wars. But the Army, and the nation, have never fully resolved the myriad problems surrounding the mobilization and employment of reserve troops. National Guard divisions in World War II suffered from neglect during the interwar period and Great Depression, and regular Army commanders often replaced or relieved National Guard officers, which generated lingering resentment. At the same time, draftees from across the nation diluted the regional affiliations of many units, with a corresponding effect on morale and esprit de corps. Chris Rein's study of one division, recruited from the Gulf South and employed in the Southwest Pacific Theater in 1944 and 1945, highlights the challenges of reserve mobilization, training, and the combat deployment of National Guard units. His account demonstrates the still-strong connections between the local communities that hosted and supported National Guard companies before the war, even after an influx of new personnel nationalized the units and they shipped overseas. The 31st Division, reorganized after combat deployment in World War I, consisted primarily of infantry regiments from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and, until 1942, Louisiana. Mobilized for federal service in late 1940, the division participated in the critical Louisiana and Carolina Maneuvers in 1941, but then languished for the next two years as a training organization, though it provided trained cadres and replacements for other divisions the Army deployed to Europe and the Pacific. In 1944, the division finally shipped overseas, enduring the brutal conditions in the Southwest Pacific, but successfully conducting landings on the New Guinea coast in support of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "island hopping" campaign directed at liberating the Philippines. After a change in leadership, on the second day of the amphibious assault on Morotai, the division supported the liberation of Mindanao, the southernmost major island in the archipelago, before redeploying for demobilization at the end of 1945. Rein's study traces the division's decades of duty from the interwar period, when it contended with a series of devastating natural disasters, through its mobilization and combat deployment. However, within the 31st Division's story, there are several significant issues that remain highly relevant for reserve deployment today. The first centers on the issue of World War II-era National Guard leadership. The Army implemented a "purge" of overage and less competent National Guard division commanders in order to replace them with younger officers of the regular Army. Maj. Gen. John C. Persons, a pre-war Birmingham resident and Alabama National Guard officer, commanded the division throughout the peacetime mobilization and training and the first operation in New Guinea, only to be summarily fired on the second day of the Morotai landings, an action not adequately explained in the existing literature. The second issue concerns the Army's "nationalization" of regional units. While this policy has the benefit of spreading any casualties across the nation, rather than duplicate the horrific losses of the "Bedford Boys" of the 29th Infantry Division that devastated one small Virginia community, it also erodes regional identity and esprit de corps. This work is a case study of the strength and weaknesses of units with a regional identity and explores the connections with the home front once that identity erodes. It also examines the Dixie Division's operational and strategic evolution, but just as importantly details drawn from soldiers' correspondence and oral histories to show how their exposure to a larger world, including service alongside African-American and Filipino units, changed their views on race and post-war society"--