Episode 062 - Brandon Jett Recipient Of The 2023 Milo Howard Award

Air Date May 8, 2023 Dr. Brandon Jett of Florida SouthWestern State
College discusses his 2023 Milo Howard Award-winning article, "'We
Crave to Become a Vital Force in this Community': Police Brutality
and African American Activism in Birmingham, Alabama, 1920-1945,"
published in the January 2022 issue of The Alabama Review. We learn
this is a spin-off of his book Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim
Crow South (LSU Press, 2021) that won the Florida Book Award for
2022. Links to things mentioned in the episode: AHA Milo Howard
Award -- https://www.alabamahistory.net/milo-b-howard-award Dr.
Brandon T. Jett website -- https://www.brandontjett.com/ Wickersham
Report (National Archives explainer) --
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2021/05/04/the-national-commission-on-law-observance-and-enforcements-report-on-lawlessness-in-law-enforcement/
PDF of Wickersham Report --
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/44540NCJRS.pdf NAACP
Thalheimer Award --
https://naacp.org/find-resources/scholarships-awards-internships/awards
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression by
Robin D. G. Kelley (UNC Press, 25th anniversary publication, 2015):
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469625485/hammer-and-hoe/ Race,
Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2021)--
https://lsupress.org/books/detail/race-crime-and-policing-in-the-jim-crow-south/
Florida Book Award -- https://www.floridabookawards.org/ Rather
read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ys6p2ccz
*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less
than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty
Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947,
the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide
historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for
meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings,
historical markers, and other programs. See the website
https://www.alabamahistory.net/