Alabama History Podcasts Alabama Historical Association

Episode 74 – Tom Reidy on AHA 2024 Museum Award for The Scottsboro Boys Museum

Air Date: May 20, 2024

Dr. Tom Reidy, executive director of The Scottsboro Boys Museum which received the Alabama Historical Association’s Museum Award for 2024, discusses the history of the infamous Scottsboro Boys case and the history and programs of the museum itself.

Links to things mentioned or implied in the episode:

Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Alabama Historical Association Historical Museum Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/historical-museum-award

The Scottsboro Boys Museum (1) https://www.thescottsboroboysmuseum.com/ ; (2) https://www.alabamaheritage.com/alabama-heritage-blog/the-historical-legacy-of-the-scottsboro-boys-museum ; (3) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/scottsboro-boys-museum-and-cultural-center/

Sheila Washington https://www.npr.org/2021/02/04/964172261/remembering-sheila-washington-who-told-the-story-of-the-scottsboro-boys

The Scottsboro Boys (case) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/scottsboro-trials/

Alabama Chapter of the Communist Party USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Chapter_of_the_Communist_Party_USA

Southern Worker newspaper https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/southernworker/

Jackson County Sentinel newspaper https://www.newspapers.com/paper/jackson-county-sentinel/29019/

The Huntsville Times newspaper https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/the-huntsville-times/

International Labor Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labor_Defense

Judge James Horton https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/james-horton-jr/

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976 docudrama) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074723/

Heavens Fall (2006 drama) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425094/

Samuel Leibowitz https://www.famous-trials.com/scottsboroboys/1559-leibowitz

Harlem Renaissance https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance

Langston Hughes https://poets.org/poet/langston-hughes

Lead Belly https://www.songhall.org/profile/Huddie_Ledbetter

To Kill a Mockingbird https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/to-kill-a-mockingbird/

Nelle Harper Lee https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/harper-lee/

NAACP https://naacp.org/

Rosa Parks (and Scottsboro Boys) https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/scottsboro-boys/

The Scottsboro Boys Act of 2023 https://www.al.com/breaking/2013/04/post_1132.html

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/29thykt5

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.

Episode 73 – Allie Lopez on the AHA 2024 Coley Research Award
Air Date: April 22, 2024

Allie Lopez, winner of the AHA 2024 Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley Research Award, discusses her proposed project, “The Injustice That Permeates: Jim Crow, Fear, And Dispossession in Rural Alabama 1930 to 1985,” and her 2024 AHA Meeting presentation on the Reverse Freedom Rides.


Links to things mentioned in the episode:

Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/

AHA Coley Research Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-and-evelyn-coley-re

Allie Lopez webpage at Baylor University: https://history.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/person/allie-r-lopez.
University of North Alabama: https://una.edu/index.html

SNCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee

SCLC: https://nationalsclc.org/

CORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality

NAACP: https://naacp.org/

Walter Johnson: https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/walter-johnson

Marisa Fuentes: https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/346-fuentes-marisa

Saidiya Hartman: https://english.columbia.edu/content/saidiya-v-hartman

Black Belt of Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/black-belt-region-in-alabama/

Charles S. Johnson, Shadow of the Plantation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934): https://archive.org/details/shadowofplantati00john/page/n5/mode/1up

Theodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974): https://archive.org/details/allgodsdangersli0000shaw_t4b0

Alabama Sharecroppers Union: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-sharecroppers-union/

Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH): https://archives.alabama.gov/

Freedom Rides: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/freedom-rides/

Reverse Freedom Rider: Allie R. Lopez, “When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way bus Tickets North,” Time – Made By History, March 21, 2024, https://time.com/6697055/welfare-queen-stereotype-origins/.

White Citizens Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils

W. S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama: https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/

Civil Rights Struggle and the Shoals Project: https://civilrightsshoals.com/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ypm5axjm
*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Air Date: March 7, 2024

Dr. Christine Sears and Ben Hoksbergen talk about the history of Huntsville, AL, site of the 2024 meeting of the Alabama Historical Association. They also discuss the sites attendees will visit on the pre-conference and conference tours, the banquet speaker Dr. Isabel Morales, and the meeting program offerings.

Links to things mentioned in the episode:

Alabama Historical Association: www.alabamahistory.net

AHA Spring 2024 Newsletter: https://www.alabamahistory.net/_files/ugd/3aaf16_3b018dd19cb14a379df403033346127c.pdf

University of Alabama at Huntsville: https://www.uah.edu/
Huntsville (History via EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/huntsville/

Broad River Group (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/broad-river-group/

Redstone Arsenal (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/redstone-arsenal/

Marshall Space Flight Center (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marshall-space-flight-center/

Operation Paperclip: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/project-paperclip-and-american-rocketry-after-world-war-ii

Verner von Braun (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/wernher-von-braun/

Cotton Mills / Textile Industry (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/textile-industry-in-alabama/

TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority, via EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tennessee-valley-authority-in-alabama-tva/

Rural electrification (REA): https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2020/q1/economic_history

WPA (Works Progress Administration): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

Sputnik: https://www.nasa.gov/history/sputnik/index.html

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): https://www.nasa.gov/

Huntsville Revisited Museum (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/hsvrevisitedmuseum/

Weeden House: https://www.weedenhousemuseum.com/

Episcopal Church of the Nativity: https://www.nativity-hsv.org/

Harrison Bros. Hardware: http://harrisonbrothershardware.com/

First National Bank (SAH website): https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AL-01-089-0041

Temple B’Nai Sholom: https://www.templebnaisholom.com/

Saint John AME Church (AAMU LibGuide): https://libguides.aamu.edu/c.php?g=509698&p=3590067

State Black Archives, Research Center, and Museum: https://www.aamu.edu/academics/library-learning-resources-center/state-black-archives-museum/

Alabama A&M University: https://www.aamu.edu/

Davidson Center for Space Exploration: https://www.rocketcenter.com/

Dr. R. Isabella Morales: http://www.risabelamorales.com/

Happy Dreams of Freedom: http://www.risabelamorales.com/happy-dreams-of-liberty.html

Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum: https://www.ssaamuseum.org/
Princeton & Slavery Project: https://slavery.princeton.edu/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/52u25fjy
*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Episode 71 – Dr. Pete Sparks on The Guntersville Historical Society, Winner of the 2023 Kuykendall Award for Local History

Dr. Pete Sparks, president of the Guntersville Historical Society (GHS), discusses the history of the society, its activities in the recent past and at present, and its plans for the future, including a succession plan for the current leadership to sustain the GHS’s work. The Alabama Historical Association presented its 2023 James Ray Kuykendall Award to the Guntersville Historical Society for its long record of outstanding work in local and community history.

Links referenced in the episode:
Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/

AHA James Kuykendall Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-ray-kuykendall-award

History of Guntersville, EOA https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guntersville/

Guntersville Historical Society Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/guntersvillehistoricalsociety/

City of Guntersville https://guntersvilleal.org/

Guntersville Museum https://www.guntersvillemuseum.org/

The Colonel Montgomery Gilbreath House https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/col-montgomery-gilbreath-house/

The Matthew Culbert Cabin (from Sand Mountain Reporter) https://www.sandmountainreporter.com/news/article_2578dc50-0a00-11ed-a1a8-8f14d781a344.html

Oliver Day Street Papers, 1836-1965, at ADAH https://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1vpqcjv/01ALABAMA_ALMA216066200002743

Jennifer Rogers-Etcheverry https://www.kkp.film/blog/bae5jc9jp2605i68432ounw7ba47yc

Mary Ben Heflin (from the Hartselle Enquirer) https://hartselleenquirer.com/2020/09/02/library-namesake-finds-truth-in-his-business/

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park https://www.nps.gov/hobe/index.htm

Trail of Tears National Historic Trail https://www.nps.gov/trte/planyourvisit/alabama.htm

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: http://tinyurl.com/55y54nuj
*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Episode 70 – Dr. Katie Beasley on her 2023 SAWH Thomas Award winning article re: Alabama women and Curb Markets, 1923-1929.

Air Date: January 23, 2024

Dr. Katie Beasley, an independent scholar who recently completed her doctorate at Florida State University, discusses her article, “’I Am Planning to Buy a New Buick Coupe Next Year”: Rural Women and Alabama’s Curb Markets, 1923-1929,” Alabama Review 75, no. 2 (April 2022), for which she won the 2023 A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians. Her work examines how rural Alabama women converted home demonstration instruction for their own purposes – making money and selling in local curb markets in the 1920s.

Links mentioned in the episode:

The Alabama Review https://www.alabamahistory.net/the-alabama-review

Southern Association for Women Historians https://thesawh.org/
A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize https://thesawh.org/prizes-and-fellowships/a-elizabeth-taylor-prize/

Auburn University Special Collections and Archives https://lib.auburn.edu/specialcollections/

Finding aid to the home demonstration agent reports (ACES Records, RG 71, series 3) https://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/071/3.htm#3

University of Georgia Press https://ugapress.org/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: http://tinyurl.com/ybnb59ub
*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Stillman College Asst. Prof. of Music, Dr. Allison Upshaw, discusses her "creative nonfiction" project, "reframing: Narratives of African American Female Landowners in Alabama's Black Belt" that captures more about Black women who own land than what appears in records and produces their stories in a way that makes them fully human.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Stillman College: https://stillman.edu/

Alabama Department of Archives and History Statement of Recommitment: https://archives.alabama.gov/about/docs/ADAH_statement_recommitment.pdf

Dr. Allison Upshaw personal website: https://allisonupshawphd.com/

Alabama Humanities Alliance grants: https://alabamahumanities.org/grants/

Alabama State Council on the Arts: https://arts.alabama.gov/

[On Heir Property] J. F. Dyer, "Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership," Alabama Agriculture Experiment Station Bulletin 667, May 2007: https://aurora.auburn.edu/bitstream/handle/11200/4107/BULL0667.pdf

"reFraming: Narratives of African American Female Landowners in Alabama's Black Belt" on Prezi Video: https://prezi.com/v/view/Es7m9C77MxQoQ4yoLTuD/

"OPERAtunities": https://allisonupshawphd.com/services/
"Artivism": https://allisonupshawphd.com/artivism/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bd2ztwbb

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/