Alabama Historical Association
Annual Meeting Program
May 6-8, 2004
Birmingham, Alabama
Hosts:
Samford University
Hoover Historical Society
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vestavia Hills Baptist Church
Thursday Evening
May 6, 2004
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration, Hampton Inn, Mountain Brook
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Reception and Registration
Southern Progress Corporation, Lakeshore Drive, Homewood
Friday Program
May 7, 2004
Registration and Sessions at Vestavia Hills Baptist Church
8:00 a.m. Registration
9:45 a.m. General Session
10:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
"'Order in the Midst of Near Chaos': Desegregating the University of Alabama Medical Center," Tim L. Pennycuff, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Frank Hartley and Martha Fort Anderson: Exhibiting Prints for Southern Viewers and Images of African American Communal Worship," Lynn Williams, Auburn University
"Black Alabamians' Response to the U.S. Declaration of War in 1917," David Alsobrook, Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas
"Convict Labor and the 1910 Lucile Prison Fire," Charles E. Adams, Tuscaloosa
"Fractures in the Solid South: Alabama's 'Gold Democrats' of 1896," Charlie Crook, Montgomery
"Rebirth, Resettlement, and Revision: The Creation of Cullman County, Alabama in the Post Reconstruction South," Robert Scott Davis, Wallace State College, Hanceville
"S. Z. Mitchell: An Alabama Electric Industry Pioneer," Bill Tharpe, Birmingham
"'Pick's Pike': That 'Impossible' World War II Military Highway from Ledo, India to Kunming, China," William S. Johnson, Montgomery
"'For Truth We Are Searching': Augusta Evans Wilson's Refutation of Catholicism," Sara S. Frear, Auburn
1:30 p.m. Friday Afternoon Tours
7:00 p.m. Annual Dinner, Beeson University Center Dining Hall, Samford University
Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award - presented by Ralph B. Draughon, Jr., New Orleans
Milo B. Howard, Jr. Award - presented by Robert J. Jakeman, Editor, The Alabama Review
Local Historical Society Award - presented by James Ray Kuykendall, Fort Payne
Introduction of Speaker - Edwin C. Bridges, Alabama Department of Archives and History
"The Battle of Fredericksburg: A Confederate Victory?" George C. Rable, University of Alabama
Saturday Breakfast
May 8, 2004
7:30 a.m. Dutch Breakfast - Beeson University Center Dining Hall, Samford University
Introduction of Speaker - Harvey H. Jackson III, Jacksonville State University
"Please Don't Put Sugar in Cornbread," Kathryn Tucker Windham, Selma
Saturday Program
May 8, 2004
Registration and Sessions at Vestavia Hills Baptist Church
9:00 a.m. Registration
10:00 a.m. General Session
10:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
"The Rise of Wallaceism," Jeff Frederick, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
"Educating Alabama's 'Very Ignorant' and 'Very Poor': Reconstruction Era American Missionary Association Educators and the War for Cultural Imperialism," Keith Hébert, Taylorsville, Georgia
"Racial and Gender Prejudice in Medical Training, 1938-1946, and the Response of Roy R. Kracke, M.D.," Robert R. Kracke, Birmingham
"Henry Wilbourne Stevens: A Connecticut Yankee Becomes an Alabama Pioneer," Jim Lewis, Birmingham
"Birmingham: The South's Great Symphonic City," Robin Ethridge, Tuscaloosa
"The Life and Times of James G. Birney," Richard Bailey, Montgomery
"'I'm Riding the Front Seat to Montgomery This Time': The Nashville Movement and the Freedom Rides," Derek Catsam, Minnesota State University, Mankato
"Canning the Kaiser in Alabama: The Montgomery Cooperative Canning Club, 1917-1918," Martin T. Olliff, Troy State University Dothan
"'An Old Maid of the Much Approved Style': Julia Zitella Cocke, Alabama Poet, Musician and Teacher," Jennifer Beck, Birmingham
Saturday Luncheon
Vestavia Hills Baptist Church
12:30 p.m. Annual Luncheon Session
Introduction of Speaker - Leah Rawls Atkins, Birmingham
Presidential Address - "A Turn of the Century Romance," James W. Lee, President of the Association
Adjournment
2004 MEETING REGISTRATION
Please pre-register the following members and guests for the meeting of the Alabama Historical Association in Birmingham, May 6-8, 2004.
Full registration (# persons) _____ @ $65 per person = ____________
(*includes Thursday evening reception, Friday lunch, Friday banquet, Saturday luncheon, historical tours, and Friday and Saturday sessions)
Print names below for name tags:
__________________________________ ________________________________
__________________________________ ________________________________
Saturday only registration (# persons) _____ @ $30 per person = __________
(*includes Saturday sessions and luncheon)
Print names below for name tags:
__________________________________ ________________________________
Saturday breakfast tickets (# persons) _____ @ $10 per person = __________
(PLEASE NOTE: Pre-registering for the breakfast is strongly encouraged. Ensure your place by pre-registering!)
Total enclosed : $ __________
Your name ____________________________________________________________
Address ______________________________________________________________
City _____________________________ State ________ Zip code ________________
Day-time telephone ____________________ E-mail Address_____________________
Pre-registrations will be accepted until April 28. Registrations received after that date will be charged $75 for full registration and $35 for Saturday only registration. For questions concerning registration, contact Burt Rieff (256-740-0278 or BRieff@aol.com), Marlene H. Rikard (205-726-2858 or mhrikard@samford.edu), or Maggi Armbrester (205-934-8692 or marmbres@uab.edu).
Make checks payable to the Alabama Historical Association and mail with this form to:
Burt Rieff
1930 Courtney Ave.
Florence, AL 35630-2608
Make your hotel reservation today by calling the Hampton Inn, Mountain Brook, at 205-870-7822 and request the AHA group rate.