Hi Week 4

Sage Report State of the State – economic/social conditions Literacy rates Spending per pupil Reaction – tax structure – Planters/ALFA Child labor – restrictions School – State Board of Education

# Presidential Campaign Smith (D) – Yankee Catholic (liberal) – wins AL Hoover (R) – Conservative/Moderate Change? Impact? Party split – control – party loyalty

#3 – Industry/Farming – 1920s Textiles: Fort Payne, Huntsville, North Alabama Coal: Jasper ACIPCO: Birmingham Farming – Black Belt/Planters Sharecroppers Options?

#4 – Prominent 1920s W.C. Handy: “St. Louis Blues” Nat King Cole Tallulah Bankhead Carrie Tuggle – school for black children

#5 – Great Depression Small farmers Social Security Act – 1935: pension $$$ New Deal

#6 – New Deal Relief, Recovery, Reform TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority – DAMs!!!!!! Hydroelectric power Flood control Development in Tennessee Valley CCC, WPA: roads, auditoriums, town halls, bridges (public works)

#7 - WWII Economic Impact Steel: munitions Labor force Redstone Arsenal - Huntsville

#8 Jim Folsom Strengths – Populist (common man) Farm – to – town roads (trade/vote) Favored North Alabama Weaknesses – personality flaws Inexperienced – how the game is played Picked fights w/press and Planters

#9 - Dixiecrats 1948 Presidential Election Truman (D) – South supports? Nation > State Southern Democrats – States’ Rights Segregation!!!!! Strom Thurmond Any real impact? Brown v Board of Education – schools “separate but equal” – politics?????

#10 – Civil Rights George Corley Wallace: “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever” Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) Freedom Riders Birmingham – 16 th Street Baptist Church Marches – MLK, Jr. – “Letter From Birmingham Jail” – Children’s March Selma – Edmund Pettus Bridge – “Bloody Sunday”