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38:01

Alabama's Great Depression, 1921-1942

34:10

Great War in the Heart of Dixie

35:57

Progressivism in Alabama 1890 1920

35:32

Black Resistance to Jim Crow 1890 1930

28:15

Jim Crow Laws in AL 1875 1903

18:53

Alabama Civil Rights Movement

Lecture for Troy University's class HIS 3316, History of Alabama as taught by Dr. Marty Olliff. Covers DuBois's assessment of "the problem of the 20th century is the color line"; pre-1954 local civil rights work including NAACP chapters and local organizations; the Civil Rights Movement "proper" from Brown v. Board (1954) to the Voting Rights Act (1965) in education, public accommodations, and voting; a primer on Civil Rights organizations in the state; and civil rights immediately following the VRA (into ca. 1970s).

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38:01

Alabama in World War 2

มุมมอง 5710 หลายเดือนก่อน

Created for Troy University HIS 3316, History of Alabama course as taught by Dr. Marty Olliff. Covers military mobilization (draft, enlistment, installations), industrial mobilization, civilian mobilization, and a few ways that the war affected Alabama society. Pulls mainly from the book _Forth To the Mighty Conflict_ by Allen Cronenberg (UA Press, 1995).

34:10

Alabama's Great Depression, 1921-1942

มุมมอง 12111 หลายเดือนก่อน

Lecture written for Troy University's HIS 3316 course, History of Alabama, presented by Dr. Marty Olliff. Covers The agricultural depression in Alabama in the 1920s, the impact of the Great Depression proper in Alabama (1930-1942), and the New Deal Agencies that affected Alabamians most: Civilian Conservation Corp, the Public Works Administration, Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progr...

35:57

Great War in the Heart of Dixie

มุมมอง 6611 หลายเดือนก่อน

Lecture recorded for Troy University's HIS 3316, History of Alabama course by Dr. Marty Olliff. Based on his edited collection, The Great War in the Heart of Dixie, the lecture covers the roots of World War 1, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Alabama troops, Camps Sheridan and McClellan, Taylor Field and Repair Depot No. 3, federal spending in Muscle Shoals and in Mobile, Civilian mobiliza...

35:32

Progressivism in Alabama 1890 1920

มุมมอง 1911 หลายเดือนก่อน

Lecture recorded for Troy University course HIS 3316, History of Alabama by Dr. Marty Olliff. Discusses (quickly) the orthodox interpretation of the Progressive Era and Olliff's own interpretation, provides context with a short discussion of national Progressivism (TR's policies, Wilson's policies, and the election of 1912), and three examples of Progressivism in Alabama the Alabama Good Roads ...

28:15

Black Resistance to Jim Crow 1890 1930

มุมมอง 3911 หลายเดือนก่อน

Lecture by Dr. Marty Olliff for Troy University HIS 3316, History of Alabama. Topics include examples of direct protest, creation of a segregated parallel society and institutions, and the NAACP in Alabama. Sources consulted: Alsobrook, David E. “The Mobile Streetcar Boycott of 1902: African American Protest or Capitulation?” Alabama Review 56, no. 2 (April 2003): 83-103. www.proquest.com/docvi...

18:53

Jim Crow Laws in AL 1875 1903

มุมมอง 4711 หลายเดือนก่อน

Lecture by Dr. Marty Olliff for Troy University HIS 3316, History of Alabama. Concerns a compendium of 416 race-based Acts of the Legislature, Codes of Alabama, and the constitutions of 1875 and 1901 between 1875 and 1903, the era of the so-called Redeemer Constitution of 1875. These encoded the post-Emancipation racial caste system of Jim Crow in Alabama.

43:22

Redemption and Bourbons

มุมมอง 5111 หลายเดือนก่อน

Lecture by Dr. Marty Olliff for Troy University HIS 3316, History of Alabama concerning state government 1874-1890 (with some info to 1903), the so-called Redeemer or Bourbon period in Alabama. Topics include Defining "Redemption" and "Bourbonism," the election of 1874 and Constitution of 1875, and state policies in finances, agriculture, industry, education, the penal system, and social welfar...

40:22

Culture of the Cotton Kingdom

มุมมอง 94ปีที่แล้ว

Lecture produced for Troy University HIS 3316, History of Alabama, as taught by Dr. Marty Olliff. Covers antebellum Alabama cotton production, enslavement of black labor including the Codes of 1833 and 1852, the patriarchy of Alabama's (and SE frontier) culture, antebellum education (public, private, and collegiate), the newspaper publishing industry, literacy, and religion. Works mentioned: En...

29:44

Alabama from Statehood to the 1830s

มุมมอง 110ปีที่แล้ว

Produced by Dr. Martin T.Olliff for the Troy University class, HIS 3316, History of Alabama. Covers concentrated power as the defining political issue of the 1820s, Alabama's admission to the Union and its Constitution of 1819, banking as a manifestation of the struggle over concentrated power, and the emerging impulse of states rights that hinged on Andrew Jackson and Creek Removal in the 1830...

31:20

Early European Settlement into Alabama

มุมมอง 245ปีที่แล้ว

Overview of the years 1519-1799, particularly the Spanish, French, and British exploration and attempts to colonize and claim the territory of the current US southeast, including Alabama. Notes relations among the imperial powers in Europe and the Americas as well as the colonizers' relations with Native Americans, particularly the Creek Nation. Originally produced for Troy University HIS 3316,...

The "New Negro" Resists Jim Crow, Pt 4, The Great Migration

17:32

The "New Negro" Resists Jim Crow, Pt 4, The Great Migration

มุมมอง 422 ปีที่แล้ว

Part 4 of 5 of the lecture "The 'New Negro' Resists Jim Crow," entitled "The Great Migration." Examines the Great Migration / Southern Diaspora (James Gregory, _The Southern Diaspora_) as economic resistance to Jim Crow, while not discounting that Whites migrated, too. Discusses why the first Great Migration is usually considered a Black movement, the push and pull factors encouraging internal ...

The "New Negro" Resists Jim Crow, Pt 3, Political and Economic Resistance

14:26

The "New Negro" Resists Jim Crow, Pt 3, Political and Economic Resistance

มุมมอง 232 ปีที่แล้ว

Part 3 of 5 of the lecture "The 'New Negro' Resists Jim Crow," entitled "Political and Economic Resistance to Jim Crow." Describes streetcar boycotts of 1900-1907 in 25 Southern US cities, founding and activities of the NAACP, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, and Black Wall Streets (particularly Tulsa, OK's Greenwood District). Lecture created by Dr. Marty Olliff, 2022, not as a work for hire under ...

The "New Negro" Resists Jim Crow, Pt 2, Two Approaches to Citizenship

9:46

The "New Negro" Resists Jim Crow, Pt 2, Two Approaches to Citizenship

มุมมอง 192 ปีที่แล้ว

Part 2 of 5 of the lecture "The 'New Negro' Resists Jim Crow," entitled "Two Approaches to Citizenship." Compares Booker T. Washington's "accommodationist" approach to gaining full citizenship with W.E.B. DuBois's more activist approach of demanding the government fulfill the promises made by the US's founding documents. This lecture created by Dr. Marty Olliff, 2022, not as a work for hire und...

The "New Negro" Resists Jim Crow, Pt 1, Intro

3:45

The "New Negro" Resists Jim Crow, Pt 1, Intro

มุมมอง 252 ปีที่แล้ว

Part 1 of 5 of the lecture "The 'New Negro' Resists Jim Crow," entitled "Introduction." Introduces the lecture and topics covered. Defines "New Negro" by Henry Lewis Gates's idea that the "New Negro" began in the 1890s as a political and economic radical, the "Public Negro Self," who demanded their rights be "vouchsafed by law." Claude McKay appropriated the title of New Negro for his literary ...