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It happened in Alabama : remarkable events that shaped history
- Title
- It happened in Alabama : remarkable events that shaped history / Jackie Sheckler Finch.
- Author
- Finch, Jackie Sheckler, 1942-
- Publication
- Guilford, Ct. : Globe Pequot Press, ©2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F326.6 .F56 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 143 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- It happened in series
- Uniform Title
- It happened in series
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Anecdotes
- History
- Local history
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-136) and index.
- Contents
- America's First Mardi Gras -- 1703 -- Battle of Horseshoe Bend -- 1814 -- The Last Slave Ship -- 1860 -- Free State of Winston -- 1861 -- Attack on Fort Morgan -- 1864 -- Helen Keller Meets "The Miracle Worker" -- 1887 -- George Washington Carver Arrives at Tuskegee Institute -- 1896 -- Books-A-Million Starts as Homemade Newsstand -- 1917 -- Monk Begins Building Miniatures -- 1918 -- Boll Weevil Monument -- 1919 -- The Poet of Tolstoy Park -- 1925 -- The Scottsboro Boys -- 1931 -- Coon Dog Graveyard -- 1937 -- Tuskegee Airmen -- 1941 -- Rocket Man Comes to Alabama -- 1950 -- Hank Williams's Funeral -- 1953 -- Meteorite Hits Woman -- 1954 -- Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat -- 1955 -- To Save a Mockingbird -- 1956 -- Letter from Birmingham Jail -- 1963 -- Four Girls Die in Birmingham Church Bombing -- 1963 -- Bloody Sunday -- 1965 -- Lurleen Wallace Elected Governor -- 1966 -- Unclaimed Baggage Center -- 1970 -- Hank Aaron Becomes Home-run King -- 1974 -- Alabama Facts and Trivia.
- ISBN
- 9780762761135
- 076276113X
- LCCN
- 2011005418
- OCLC
- ocn666237197
- 666237197
- SCSB-14476947
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library