Episode 89 - Dr. John Giggie on 2025 Ala Hist Assn Coley Book Award

Air Date: November 3, 2025 Dr. John Giggie, associate professor of
history and director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the
South at the University of Alabama discusses his 2024 book, Bloody
Tuesday, The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in
Tuscaloosa that received the Alabama Historical Association’s 2025
Clinton, Jackson and Evelyn Coley Book Award. In addition to the
book and the Civil Rights Movement events it covers, Giggie talks
about “shared authority” in doing first person and community
scholarship. Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3uxwr7t3 Links
mentioned in the episode – Alabama Historical Association:
https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA’s Clinton Jackson and Evelyn
Coley Book Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/coley-book-award
Dr. John Giggie: https://history.ua.edu/people/john-m-giggie/
Bloody Tuesday, The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights
in Tuscaloosa:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bloody-tuesday-9780197766668?cc=us&lang=en&
Tuscaloosa, AL:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa/ First African
Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa:
http://www.firstafricanchurch.org/discover/our-history.html
Reverend T.Y. Rogers:
https://tavm.omeka.net/exhibits/show/african-american-history/item/50
SCLC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference
Bloody Tuesday, June 4, 1964:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa-campaign-and-bloody-tuesday/
Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bloody-sunday/ James
Bevel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bevel Robert (Bobby)
Shelton:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shelton_(Ku_Klux_Klan) Ku Klux
Klan:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/ku-klux-klan-in-contemporary-alabama/
Joe Mallisham: https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/1102 Tuscaloosa
Bus Boycott, 1964: https://civilrightstuscaloosa.org/trail/stop-7/
Charles Steele:
https://tavm.omeka.net/exhibits/show/african-american-history/item/736
Reverend TW Linton:
https://cbn.com/article/not-selected/thomas-linton-living-saint-civil-rights-history-0
Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Trail:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa-civil-rights-trail/
The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff. 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.