Alabama's Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom

Alabama's great civil rights events in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama's preserved civil rights sites and monuments

No other state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more thoroughly than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. Alabama's Civil Rights Trail tells of Alabama's great civil rights events, as well as its lesser-known moments, in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama's preserved civil rights sites and monuments.

In this history of Alabama's civil rights movement, Cradle of Freedom (University of Alabama Press, 2004), Frye Gaillard contends that Alabama played the lead role in a historic movement that made all citizens of the nation, black and white, more free. This book, geared toward the casual traveler and the serious student alike, showcases in a vividly illustrated and compelling manner, valuable and rich details. It provides a user-friendly, graphic tool for the growing number of travelers, students, and civil rights pilgrims who visit the state annually.

The story of the civil rights movement in Alabama is told city by city, region by region, and town by town, with entries on Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Tuskegee, and Mobile, as well as chapters on the Black Belt and the Alabama hill country. Smaller but important locales such as Greensboro, Monroeville, and Scottsboro are included, as are more obscure sites like Hale County's Safe House Black History Museum and the birthplace of the Black Panther Party in Lowndes County

Author: Frye Gaillard
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 03/02/2010
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780817355814


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2010 pg. 95

About the Author
Frye Gaillard has been a journalist for the Associated Press and the Charlotte Observer. He is the author of Race, Rock and Religion: Profiles from a Southern Journalist, The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, Becoming Truly Free: 300 Years of Black History in the Carolinas, and Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America. He is currently writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.

Juan Williams is a leading political commentator, journalist, and intellectual of American cultural life. He is the author of Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience, and Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, the companion volume to PBS's landmark documentary of the same name.



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