NewSouth Books

Collected poems from the lifetime body of work of Helen Friedman Blackshear, the eighth poet laureate of the state of Alabama.Author: Helen F. BlackshearPublisher: NewSouth BooksPublication Date: Sep...

This fast-paced and informative YA biography tells the story of pioneering black aviator Eugene Bullard from his birth in 1895 to his combat experiences in both World War I and II and, finally, the...

Author: Ann Carlisle CarmichaelPublisher: NewSouth BooksPublication Date: Feb 05, 2021Number of Pages: 138 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1588383377ISBN-13: 9781588383372

The 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...

Lessons from the Big House: One Family? Passage Through the History of the SouthAuthor: Frye GaillardPublisher: NewSouth BooksPublication Date: Dec 07, 2021Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage:...

Let's Eat Snails takes young readers on an ethnic culinary adventure. In a Sicilian-American household, cooked snails are the ultimate treat, as one young visitor comes to delight in understanding...

ED GEORGE's debut collection of poetry was written over a period of thirty years. His simple, sensual style captures the search for life's meaning, and the collection's power comes from "the word not...

Close 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...

Once an obscure piece of World War II history, the Tuskegee Airmen are now among the most celebrated and documented aviators in military history. With this growth in popularity, however, have come a...

The back cover of R.E.M.'s influential 1983 album Murmur famously features an image of the wooden Trail Creek Trestle. Over time the aging nineteenth-century train trestle in Athens, Georgia, became...

In 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...

George Washington Carver is today remembered in part for the many products he derived from the peanut, a crop he urged on Southern farmers to replace cotton and avoid soil exhaustion and the boll...

Beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham's final book, an exploration of aging, is by turns humorous and poignant. The author creates an alter ego, referred to only as an old woman named She, who...

Born in 1945, Clifton L. Taulbert attended school in the Mississippi Delta during the era of legal segregation. Rising above the limitations imposed on him by a segregated South, Taulbert attended...

Author: Marti RosnerPublisher: NewSouth BooksPublication Date: February 15, 2020Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1588383563ISBN-13: 9781588383563

In ?The Unlikely World of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, ?Cole Manley analyzes the global influences and impact of the boycott of 1955-1956. Manley moves beyond the borders of Alabama, and even beyond...

Based on visitor descriptions of antebellum Mobile's physical and social environment, this book transports readers to a place and time that looms exceptionally large in Gulf Coast history. Mobile's...

Tuskegee University Cemetery Stories chronicles the important contributions of those whose last home on this earth is the Tuskegee University Cemetery--those many men and women who diligently built...

Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the...