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 new program, which is an outreach effort for the festival, seeks to connect student readers in high school and college with Alabama-related books and Alabama authors and to encourage high school students and college undergraduates to engage Alabama’s culture, literature and history through books. Attorney Seay’s memoir of his life as a lawyer and Civil Rights pioneer seems to be an appropriate and compelling starting… Read more The Inaugural ABF Student Readers Group →