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The Great Depression, The New Deal, and Alabama's Political Leadership

Brown, James S., ed. Up Before Daylight: Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1982. Reprint ed., 1997.

Flynt, Wayne. Mine, Mill, and Microchip: A Chronicle of Alabama Enterprise. Northridge, Calif.: Windsor Publications, 1987. Especially chapter five.

__________. Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. Especially chapter eleven.

Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. Lister Hill: Statesman from the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Heacock, Walter J. "William Brockman Bankhead, A Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1952.

Kelley, Robin D. G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Key, Jack B. "Henry B. Steagall: The Conservative as a Reformer." Alabama Review 17 (July 1964): 198-209.

* Rogers, William W., Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994. Especially chapters 27 and 28.

Suggestions/Activities

The Alabama Department of Archives and History's web site contains several classroom activities using primary sources from the Archives' collection at www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/dep/dep.html.