NewSouth Books
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Meridian Rising
$28.95 Add to cartKnown for “Blue Yodel (T for Texas),” “Waiting for a Train,” and “In the Jailhouse Now,” Jimmie Rodgers’s impact on American music is incalculable. Paul Burch’s bio-fictional tale of the short and poi
- Author: Burch, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385558
- Language: English
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Protesting with Rosa Parks: From Stagecoaches to Driving While Black
$34.95 Add to cartProtesting with Rosa Parks details the history of the intersections between Black activism and travel over a span of one hundred and ninety years. John K. Bollard recounts the experiences of more than… [more below]
- Author: Bollard, John K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385523
- Language: English
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Mississippi’s Black Cotton
$32.95 Add to cartThe literature of the civil rights movement is replete with stories about the major actors in the movement, including, for example, Martin Luther King, but there is little focus on the MacArthur Cotto
- Author: Obee, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385493
- Language: English
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Midnight Cry: A Shooting on Sand Mountain
$27.95 Add to cartClose to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger’s home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead in front of the house he s
- Author: Shaul, Lesa Carnes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1588385337
- Language: English
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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World
$25.95 Add to cartAmerican Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermin… [more below]
- Author: Proenza-Coles, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384675
- Language: English
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Our Patriots: The Men and Women Who Achieved American Independence–A Coloring Book
$11.95 Add to cartShare the amazing American story with your children with Our Patriots, a one-of-a-kind coloring book sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Bring the varied quilt of colonial America t
- Author: National Society Daughters of the Americ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1588384470
- Language: English
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Heroes and Other Mortals: Stories of Our Better Angels
$29.95 Add to cartFrye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the
- Author: Gaillard, Frye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385442
- Language: English
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Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters
$30.95 Add to cartA scrapbook can tell us much about a person’s life or one period of someone’s life: joys and sorrows, challenges and successes, problems and solutions. Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Mili
- Author: Jordan, Pia Marie Winters
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1588384837
- Language: English
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In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
$20.95 Read moreThe killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These chil
- Author: Mayer, Robert H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1588384373
- Language: English
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Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging
$36.95 Add to cartIn Old Enough, twenty-one women artists and writers write about the experience of aging. Gay, straight, unmarried, partnered, widowed, Black, white, Latinx, retired, and working, these women are not s
- Author: Lamar, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1588385183
- Language: English
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They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
$11.95 Add to cartThey Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat, first published in 1982, has sold more than 100,000 copies. Without skipping a beat, one of America’s favorite humorists, the late Lewis Grizzard, … [more below]
- Author: Grizzard, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1588382583
- Language: English
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Leaving Gee’s Bend
$12.95 Add to cartSIBA Book Award Finalist Alabama Library Association Children’s Book of the Year
Ludelphia Bennett may be blind in one eye, but that doesn’t mean she can’t put in a good stitch. In fact, Ludelphia sew- Author: Latham, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1588383326
- Language: English
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The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice
$24.95 Add to cartThey are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, far
- Author: Fiffer, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384756
- Language: English
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East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785
$25.95 Add to cartIn 1763 Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida, which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida east of the Apalachicola River. Today, the history of East Florida is seldom s
- Author: Kotlik, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1588385027
- Language: English
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Of Goats & Governors: Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories
$25.95 Add to cartFew states have as colorful a political history as Alabama, especially in the post-World War II era. During the past six decades, the state played a central role in the civil rights movement, largely
- Author: Flowers, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1588383865
- Language: English
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The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance
$26.95 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the South in America’s long descent into Trumpism. In 1974 the great S… [more below]
- Author: Tucker, Cynthia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 158838456X
- Language: English
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Jeffrey’s Favorite 13 Ghost Stories: From Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi
$16.95 Add to cartThis is the first anthology of the author’s own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Hundreds of thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Windham, Kathryn Tucker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1588384314
- Language: English
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More Than Peanuts: The Unlikely Partnership of Tom Huston and George Washington Carver
$24.95 Add to cart“The further we go the bigger it gets and the more interesting. I don’t know what we would have done without you.” So wrote Bob Barry, a White executive with the Tom Huston Peanut Company, to George W
- Author: Powell, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384462
- Language: English
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She: The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life
$16.95 Add to cartThis slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and au… [more below]
- Author: Windham, Kathryn Tucker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1588383733
- Language: English
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
$26.95 Add to cartTwo classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition which includes a major new introduction by the edit… [more below]
- Author: Carawan, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1588381935
- Language: English
