{"product_id":"selma-a-bicentennial-history-paperback-softback-9780817360214","title":"Selma; A Bicentennial History (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817360214","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSelma\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Bicentennial History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlston Fitts (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817360214\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 May 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 199 black \u0026amp; white figures\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 14.9 x 3.3 cm, 0.589 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelma: A Bicentennial History\u003c\/i\u003e will undoubtedly serve as the starting reference point from which future scholarship regarding this city’s past will commence. Fitts has produced a masterful work for which he and his fellow Selmians can be very proud.\" - \u003ci\u003eAlabama Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is a palpable even-handedness about this book. It could serve as a common frame of reference for all of Selma's citizens, black and white, and certainly for people in other places, including other parts of Alabama; it offers a font of useful information.\" - Frye Gaillard, author of \u003ci\u003eCradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What makes this book so worthwhile in my view is its discussion of the complexity of race since the days of the civil rights movement. Like so many communities that went through the civil rights movement, race remains a significant issue that can lead to open conflict with the slightest spark. Fitts shows how explosive the issue of race continued to be.\" - Wilson Fallin Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eUplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. \u003ci\u003eSelma: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Bicentennial History\u003c\/i\u003e is a greatly revised and expanded version of Fitts’s history of the city, replete with a wealth of new, never-before-published illustrations, which further develops a number of significant events, corrects critical errors, and, most importantly, incorporates many new stories and materials that document Selma’s establishment, growth, and development.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and nonpartisan, Fitts’s pleasantly accessible history addresses every major issue, movement, and trend from the city’s settlement in 1815 to the end of the twentieth century. Its commerce, institutions, governance, as well as its evolving racial, religious, and class composition are all treated with candor and depth. Selma’s transformative role within the state and the nation is fully explored, and most notable is a nuanced and complex discussion of race relations from the rise of the civil rights era to modern times.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Historians, scholars, and Alabamians will find great use for this updated and fully developed exploration of Selma’s rich, complex, and significant history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Selma in Pioneer Days: \"\u003cbr\u003eMoore'\u003cbr\u003es Bluff\"\u003cbr\u003e Strives to Make the Big Time, 1819-1845 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. The Queen City Grows As Storm Clouds Gather, 1844-1861 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Secession and Civil War: Selma, Arsenal of the Confederacy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Rebuilding and Reconstruction: Selma Rises from the Ashes, 1865-1880 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. The Queen City Resumes Her Throne: Selma, 1880-1912 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. The Decline of the Cotton Kingdom: Selma, 1912-1939 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. World War II and After, 1939-1963 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Selma, Birthplace of Equal Voting Rights: The Queen City in Crisis, 1963-1968 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. The Queen City Recovers Her Poise, 1968-1988 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. More Bridges to Cross, 1989-2008 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: What Bridges Lie Ahead? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574419484952,"sku":"9780817360214","price":22.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/selma-a-bicentennial-history-paperback-softback-9780817360214","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}