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* Hemphill, Paul (1993) ''[[Leaving Birmingham|Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son]].'' New York: Viking Books ISBN 067084778X
* Hemphill, Paul (1993) ''[[Leaving Birmingham|Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son]].'' New York: Viking Books ISBN 067084778X
* Lewis, M. David (1994) ''[[Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic]]''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817307080
* Lewis, M. David (1994) ''[[Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic]]''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817307080
* Cruse, Howard. (1995) ''[[Stuck Rubber Baby]]'' Paradox Press. ISBN 1563892553
* Cruse, Howard (1995) ''[[Stuck Rubber Baby]]'' Paradox Press. ISBN 1563892553
* Fisher, Virginia E. (1995) ''[[Building on a Vision]]'' Birmingham, Alabama: Crane Hill Publishers ISBN 1881548147
* McKiven, Henry M. (1995) ''Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920.'' Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807845248
* McKiven, Henry M. (1995) ''Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920.'' Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807845248
* LaMonte, Edward Shannon (1995) ''Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900-1975''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817307547
* LaMonte, Edward Shannon (1995) ''Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900-1975''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817307547
* Whiting, Marvin Yeomans (1997) ''One Great City: The Campaign for Consolidated Government, Birmingham, Alabama, 1970-1971.'' Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library
* Whiting, Marvin Yeomans (1997) ''One Great City: The Campaign for Consolidated Government, Birmingham, Alabama, 1970-1971.'' Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library
* Fallin, Wilson (1997) ''[[The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm]]'' New York: Garland Publishing ISBN 0815328834
* Manis, Andrew (1999) ''A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0817309683
* Manis, Andrew (1999) ''A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0817309683
* Hemphill, Paul (2000) ''[[Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son]]''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817310226
* Hemphill, Paul (2000) ''[[Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son]]''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817310226
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* McWilliams, Tennant S. (2007) ''New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817315467
* McWilliams, Tennant S. (2007) ''New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817315467
* {{Fazio-2010}}
* {{Fazio-2010}}
==Short reads==
* Beecher, John (February 1933) "Annual Report to the Stockholders". ''The New Masses'', p. 8
* King, Martin Luther (May 1963) "[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]". Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Friends Service Committee, reprinted in ''Why We Can't Wait'' (1964) New York: Harper Collins ISBN 0060123958
* Pioneers Club (1968) ''Early Days in Birmingham''. Southern University Press.
* Randall, Dudley (1968) "Ballad of Birmingham", from ''Cities Burning''. Detroit, Michigan: Broadside Press
* Cruse, Howard (1995) ''[[Stuck Rubber Baby]]'' Paradox Press. ISBN 1563892553
==Personal memoirs==
* Morgan, Charles (1964) ''A Time to Speak: The Story of a Young American Lawyer's Struggle for His City, and for Himself.'' New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. ISBN 0030505763
* Durr, Virginia Foster (1985) ''Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr.'' Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press
* Hemphill, Paul (1993) ''[[Leaving Birmingham|Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son]].'' New York: Viking Books ISBN 067084778X
* Stewart, Shelly (2002) ''[[The Road South|The Road South: A Memoir]]''. Warner Books. ISBN 0446530271
* Arrington Richard (2008) ''[[There's Hope for the World: The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African-American Mayor]]''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press
* Rice, Condoleezza (2010) ''[[Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family]]''. New York, New York: Crown Archetype ISBN 0307587878
* Isom, Chervis (2015) ''[[The Newspaper Boy: Coming of Age in Birmingham, Alabama During the Civil Rights Era]]''.  Self-published ISBN 9780996178709
==Works of fiction set in Birmingham==
* Cohen, Octavus Roy (1925) ''Bigger and Blacker.'' Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Company
* Cohen, Octavus Roy (1938) ''Florian Slappey.'' New York: D. Appleton-Century Company
* Percy, Walker (1966) ''[[The Last Gentleman]]'' New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
* Gaines, Charles (1972) ''[[Stay Hungry]]''
* Flagg, Fannie (1987) ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe]]'' New York: Random House ISBN 039456152X
* Cruse, Howard (1995) ''[[Stuck Rubber Baby]]'' Paradox Press. ISBN 1563892553
* Aaron, Jason & Jason Latour (2015-) ''[[Southern Bastards]]''. Image Comics
==Books specific to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement==
* King, Martin Luther (May 1963) "[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]". Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Friends Service Committee, reprinted in ''Why We Can't Wait'' (1964) New York: Harper Collins ISBN 0060123958
* Raines, Howell (1977) ''[[My Soul Is Rested]]''. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
* Smith, Petric J. (1994) ''[[Long Time Coming: An Insider's Story of the Birmingham Church Bombing That Rocked The World]]''. Birmingham: Crane Hill Publishers
* Eskew, Glenn T. (1997) ''[[But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle]]''. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press ISBN 9780807846674
* Manis, Andrew (1999) ''A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth''. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0817309683
* Bass, S. Jonathan (2001) ''[[Blessed Are The Peacemakers|Blessed Are The Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail]]''. Baton Rouge: LSU Press. ISBN 0807126551
* {{McWhorter-2001}}
* Sikora, Frank (2005) ''[[Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case]]''. Tuscaloosa: Fire Ant Books ISBN 9780817352684
* Thorne, T. K. (2013) ''[[Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers]]''. Chicago: Chicago Review Press ISBN 1613748671


==Other lists==
==Other lists==
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Revision as of 15:27, 12 November 2020

This is a reading list of books and primary sources which are particularly valuable to understanding historical foundations for the Birmingham District of today.

Chronological list

  • Beecher, John (February 1933) "Annual Report to the Stockholders". The New Masses, p. 8
  • Leighton, George R. (August 1937) "Birmingham, Alabama: The City of Perpetual Promise". Harpers Magazine. No. 1407. pp. 225-242. Republished in Five Cities: The Story of their Youth and Old Age (also published as America's Growing Pains: The Romance, Comedy & Tragedy of Five Great Cities) New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 100-139
  • Blakely, Hunter B. (1953) Religion in Shoes; Brother Bryan of Birmingham. Richmond, VA: John Knox.
  • The Birmingham Metropolitan Audit: Preliminary Report. (1960) Louisville, Kentucky: Southern Institute of Management
  • Henley, John C., Jr (1960) This is Birmingham: The Founding and Growth of an American City. Birmingham: Southern University Press
  • King, Martin Luther (May 1963) "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Friends Service Committee, reprinted in Why We Can't Wait (1964) New York: Harper Collins ISBN 0060123958
  • Morgan, Charles (1964) A Time to Speak: The Story of a Young American Lawyer's Struggle for His City, and for Himself. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. ISBN 0030505763
  • Pioneers Club (1968) Early Days in Birmingham. Southern University Press.
  • Brown, Virginia Pounds & Jane Porter Nabers, eds. (1970) Mary Gordon Duffee's Sketches of Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 081735011X
  • Glaze, Andrew (1981) "I Am The Jefferson County Courthouse", in I Am The Jefferson County Courthouse & Other Poems. Thunder City Press ISBN ISBN 0918644119
  • White, Marjorie Longenecker (1981) The Birmingham District: An Industrial History and Guide. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society
  • Durr, Virginia Foster (1985) Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press
  • Hemphill, Paul (1993) Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son. New York: Viking Books ISBN 067084778X
  • Lewis, M. David (1994) Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817307080
  • Cruse, Howard (1995) Stuck Rubber Baby Paradox Press. ISBN 1563892553
  • Fisher, Virginia E. (1995) Building on a Vision Birmingham, Alabama: Crane Hill Publishers ISBN 1881548147
  • McKiven, Henry M. (1995) Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807845248
  • LaMonte, Edward Shannon (1995) Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900-1975. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817307547
  • Whiting, Marvin Yeomans (1997) One Great City: The Campaign for Consolidated Government, Birmingham, Alabama, 1970-1971. Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library
  • Fallin, Wilson (1997) The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm New York: Garland Publishing ISBN 0815328834
  • Manis, Andrew (1999) A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0817309683
  • Hemphill, Paul (2000) Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817310226
  • Bass, S. Jonathan (2001) Blessed Are The Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail. Baton Rouge: LSU Press. ISBN 0807126551
  • McWhorter, Diane (2001) Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0743226488
  • Stewart, Shelly (2002) The Road South: A Memoir. Warner Books. ISBN 0446530271
  • Connerly, Charles E. (2005) The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0813923344
  • McWilliams, Tennant S. (2007) New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 9780817315467
  • Fazio, Michael W. (2010) Landscape of Transformations: Architecture and Birmingham, Alabama. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press ISBN 9781572336872

Short reads

  • Beecher, John (February 1933) "Annual Report to the Stockholders". The New Masses, p. 8
  • King, Martin Luther (May 1963) "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Friends Service Committee, reprinted in Why We Can't Wait (1964) New York: Harper Collins ISBN 0060123958
  • Pioneers Club (1968) Early Days in Birmingham. Southern University Press.
  • Randall, Dudley (1968) "Ballad of Birmingham", from Cities Burning. Detroit, Michigan: Broadside Press
  • Cruse, Howard (1995) Stuck Rubber Baby Paradox Press. ISBN 1563892553

Personal memoirs

Works of fiction set in Birmingham

Books specific to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement

Other lists

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