Episode 78 -- Barry McNealy On 2024 Hamilton Award

Mr. Barry McNealy of Birmingham talks about receiving the Alabama
Historical Association’s Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton Award for
2024, given to a person who has significantly advanced Alabama
history with the general public. Mr. McNealy is a classroom
teacher, historical expert with the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum,
youth leader, and tour guide. Links mentioned in the podcast:
Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton Award:
https://www.alabamahistory.net/virginia-v-hamilton-award Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute: https://www.bcri.org/ Miles College:
https://www.miles.edu/ Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr.:
https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Abraham_Woods_Jr Rev. Fred
Shuttlesworth:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fred-lee-shuttlesworth/
Ms. Rosa Parks:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/rosa-parks/ Parker High
School, Birmingham: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Parker_High_School
Smithfield Community: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Smithfield_community
Dynamite Hill: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Dynamite_Hill Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/sixteenth-street-baptist-church/
“Four Little Girls” bombing:
https://bhamwiki.com/w/1963_church_bombing BCRI Legacy Youth
Leadership Program: https://www.bcri.org/youth-and-families/ United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/ Alabama
Christian Movement for Human Rights:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-christian-movement-for-human-rights-acmhr/
Boutwell Auditorium: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Boutwell_Auditorium Nat
King Cole assault and attempted kidnapping:
https://bhamwiki.com/w/1956_Nat_King_Cole_assault Father Coyle
murder: https://bhamwiki.com/w/James_Coyle Edmund Pettus Bridge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pettus_Bridge “Bloody Sunday”
(Selma, AL, 1965):
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bloody-sunday/ Juneteenth
Freedom Celebration (BCRI):
https://www.bcri.org/event/juneteenth2024/ “Letter From Birmingham
Jail”:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/letter-from-birmingham-jail/
Miss Odessa Woolfolk: https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Odessa_Woolfolk
PEACE Birmingham: https://www.acealabama.org/peacebirmingham.html
Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript:
https://tinyurl.com/3dhb5vat *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 www.alabamahistory.net.