Episode 73 – Allie Lopez on the AHA 2024 Coley Research Award
Air Date: April 22, 2024
Allie Lopez, winner of the AHA 2024 Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley Research Award, discusses her proposed project, “The Injustice That Permeates: Jim Crow, Fear, And Dispossession in Rural Alabama 1930 to 1985,” and her 2024 AHA Meeting presentation on the Reverse Freedom Rides.
Links to things mentioned in the episode:
Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/
AHA Coley Research Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-and-evelyn-coley-re
Allie Lopez webpage at Baylor University: https://history.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/person/allie-r-lopez.
University of North Alabama: https://una.edu/index.html
SNCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
SCLC: https://nationalsclc.org/
CORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality
NAACP: https://naacp.org/
Walter Johnson: https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/walter-johnson
Marisa Fuentes: https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/346-fuentes-marisa
Saidiya Hartman: https://english.columbia.edu/content/saidiya-v-hartman
Black Belt of Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/black-belt-region-in-alabama/
Charles S. Johnson, Shadow of the Plantation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934): https://archive.org/details/shadowofplantati00john/page/n5/mode/1up
Theodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974): https://archive.org/details/allgodsdangersli0000shaw_t4b0
Alabama Sharecroppers Union: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-sharecroppers-union/
Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH): https://archives.alabama.gov/
Freedom Rides: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/freedom-rides/
Reverse Freedom Rider: Allie R. Lopez, “When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way bus Tickets North,” Time – Made By History, March 21, 2024, https://time.com/6697055/welfare-queen-stereotype-origins/.
White Citizens Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils
W. S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama: https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/
Civil Rights Struggle and the Shoals Project: https://civilrightsshoals.com/
Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ypm5axjm
*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/