The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. communists to black liberation and to social strug-gle in general. See the website įounded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. Kelleys Hammer and Hoe is a ground breaking work, both reflecting and transcending the new historians reassessment of the contribution of U. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.įounded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama.

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the long Civil Rights. Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: Buy a cheap copy of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists. Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2021). Kelley (UNC Press, 25th anniversary publication, 2015): Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression by Robin D. Wickersham Report (National Archives explainer). Links to things mentioned in the episode: The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. We learn this is a spin-off of his book Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2021) that won the Florida Book Award for 2022. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. Brandon Jett of Florida SouthWestern State College discusses his 2023 Milo Howard Award-winning article, ''We Crave to Become a Vital Force in this Community': Police Brutality and African American Activism in Birmingham, Alabama, 1920-1945,' published in the January 2022 issue of The Alabama Review.

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