100 Things You Need to Know About Alabama - Hardcover

Williams, Horace Randall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0794843379 ISBN 13: 9780794843373

Publisher: Whitman Pub Llc, 2016

Synopsis

The great state of Alabama celebrates its bicentennial in 2019. In anticipation, writer and history editor Horace Randall Williams takes a look back at the events, places, and people that have shaped the Heart of Dixie from the times of the first Native Americans to the arrivals of today s most recent immigrants. In 100 insightful vignettes, readers will discover little-known details about the state s geophysical characteristics, key dates in history, significant people, and interesting places to visit. Some like Rosa Parks and Helen Keller are household names, but others like Ned Cobb and Clifford Durr will be revelations to most. Similarly, Alabama s role in Civil War and Civil Rights is well known, but the state s rank as the world leader in a type of fossil or as the birthplace of two of the fastest men on the planet are less known facts. From the Freedom Rides to NASCAR, from peanuts to prosthetics, Alabama has many surprises. Come along for a stroll through Sweet Home Alabama!

About this title

About the Author

Horace Randall Williams is a writer, editor, publication designer, and book publisher. He has published more than 200 articles and is the author and/or editor of four books. He began publishing books in 1989 at Black Belt Press, a company he founded, and continues to publish today at NewSouth Books, which he co-founded in 2000 with his partner, Suzanne La Rosa. Together, they have published more than 300 books, mostly on Southern culture, history, and literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Whitman Pub Llc
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0794843379
• ISBN 13: 9780794843373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224