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  • Choosing “Jim Crow and Me”

    When I initially proposed a Student Readers Group for the Alabama Book Festival at the first planning meeting of the year in August 2011, most…

  • “Children of the Changing South”

    After about four or five years of work, Children of the Changing South: Accounts of Growing Up During and After Integration was released on November…

  • The Inaugural ABF Student Readers Group

    I am pleased to announce Jim Crow and Me by Solomon Seay, Jr. as the book selection for the first Alabama Book Festival Student Readers Group. This…

  • The Annual Halloween Hokey Movie Binge

    One of my favorites things about Halloween is that the movie channels show scary movies all through the late October and into early November. Instead…