The Great War in the heart of Dixie : Alabama during World War I

Olliff, Martin T. (EDT) (Author). Olliff, Martin T. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0817316167 : HRD
Physical Description: p. cm.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Alabama, April 1917 / Martin T. Olliff -- Military participation at home and abroad, 1917-1918 / Ruth Smith Truss -- "Tenting tonight on the old camp grounds" : Alabama's military bases in World War I / Wesley Phillips Newton -- Alabama's Black Baptist leaders, the Progressive Era, and World War I / Wilson Fallin, Jr. -- A call to arms for African Americans during the age of Jim Crow : Black Alabamians' response to the U.S. declaration of war in 1917 / David Alsobrook -- From the cotton field to the great waterway : African Americans and the Muscle Shoals Project during World War I / Victoria E. Ott -- Mobile in World War I / Michael V.R. Thomason -- The Alabama Council of Defense, 1917-1918 / Dowe Littleton -- "Can all we can, and can the Kaiser, too" :the Montgomery Cooperative Canning Club / Martin T. Olliff -- World War I : catalyst for social change in Alabama / Robert Saunders, Jr. -- Memorializing World War I in Alabama / Robert J. Jakeman.