Alabama in the Twentieth Century

by Wayne Flynt

Book Overview

An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context Alabama is a state full of contrasts. On the one hand, it has elected the lowest number of women to the state legislature of any state in the union; yet according to historians it produced two of the ten most important American women of the 20th century--Helen Keller and Rosa Parks. Its people are fanatically devoted to conservative religious values; yet they openly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081731430X
• ISBN13: 9780817314309
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"