Topic: Alabama

  • Joe Minter’s African Village in America

    Joe Minter’s African Village in America

    Joe Minter is a Birmingham-based artist who creates site-specific sculptures on and around his property, many of which comprise his large installation, the African Village in America. The recorded flyover below provides a bird’s eye view of this site, created between 1989 and the present. Learn more about Minter and his work here by viewing a catalogued collection of his works, watching intimate conversations, taking the 3D tour, or reading about him and his work.

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    Project Status:
    Live

    Website Link:
    https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/Joe_Minter/s/joe-minter-african-village/page/welcome

    Project Owner(s):
    Sara-Maria Sorentino

    Discipline:
    American Culture & Society

    Research Method(s):
    Oral History
    3D Tour
    Photography

    Topic(s):
    African American Art
    Alabama

    Suggested Citation:

    Sorentino, Sara-Maria. “Joe Minter’s African Village in America.” Alabama Digital Humanities Center. https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/Joe_Minter/s/joe-minter-african-village/page/welcome.

  • Letters from the Scottsboro Boys Trials

    Letters from the Scottsboro Boys Trials

    More than eighty years ago, on March 25, 1931, nine young African Americans hopped a train in a Chattanooga freight yard and headed west to seek work. Instead, they found themselves joined together at the center of a life and death courtroom drama, falsely accused of rape. The Scottsboro Boys’ cases focused an international spotlight on Jim Crow in America in the 1930s. In 2013, Alabama legislators passed two bills, acknowledging that the men were “victims of a gross injustice.” One, a resolution, exonerated the nine defendants; and the other created a law making it possible to grant posthumous pardons to the Scottsboro defendants. Part of the Scottsboro Boys Museum University-Community partnership, this digital project aims to create a curated online repository of letters about the Scottsboro Boys Trials sent to Alabama governors during the 1930s from a wide range of correspondents to shed new light on these pivotal historical events.

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    Project Status:
    Live

    Website Link:
    https://scottsboroboysletters.barefield.ua.edu/

    Project Owner(s):
    Ellen Spears (Retired)

    Discipline:
    History

    Research Method(s):
    Primary Sources
    Digital Archive

    Topic(s):
    Scottsboro Boys
    Civil Rights
    Alabama

    Suggested Citation:

    Spears, Ellen. “Letters from the Scottsboro Boys Trials.” Alabama Digital Humanities Center. https://scottsboroboysletters.barefield.ua.edu/.