Episode 84 - Chase Stephens on 2025 AHA Wiggins Diss Awd

Air Date: June 2, 2025 Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/fk7hby52 Dr.
David Chase Stephens (AU ’24), winner of the Alabama Historical
Association’s 2025 Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins Award for the best
dissertation in Alabama History, discusses his dissertation
entitled “To Obstruct and Resist: Paradise v. Allen, Integration
Efforts, and the Alabama State Troopers” (Dec. 2024). Stephens
examines the strum und drang of integrating the Alabama State
Troopers by hiring and promoting Black and women officers. He
examines the four major lawsuits at the heart of these efforts as
well as resistance to integration that Gov. Guy Hunt dropped in the
mid-1980s. Links mentioned in the episode: Alabama Historical
Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins
Dissertation Award:
https://www.alabamahistory.net/wiggins-dissertation-award Stephens,
“To Obstruct and Resist: Paradise v. Allen, Integration Efforts,
and the Alabama State Troopers”:
https://etd.auburn.edu/handle/10415/9481 Paradise v. Allen / NAACP
v. Allen:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/paradise-v-allen/ Alabama
Department of Public Safety:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-law-enforcement-agency/
US v. Frazer (1970):
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/317/1079/1415562/
Mieth v. Dothard (1976):
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/418/1169/1602972/
Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977):
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/433/321/ Gov. George
Wallace:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/george-c-wallace-1963-67-1971-79-1983-87/
Gov. Fob James:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/forrest-fob-james-jr-1979-83-1995-99/
Gov. Guy Hunt:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guy-hunt-1987-93/ Cowie,
Freedom’s Dominion:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jefferson-cowie/freedom%E2%80%99s-dominion-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize/9781541672819/?lens=basic-books
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