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Non-fiction
My Heart is in the Earth: True Stories of Alabama and Mexico
Recollections of San Miguel from the late 1950s and early ‘60s, first-person about the author’s arriving in the summer of 1958, attending the Instituto Allende’s creative writing program, drinking at the old Cucaracha Bar on the Jardin with its ample supply of interesting characters. Many of the chapters were first published in the travel section of The New York Times.
Wayne Greenhaw
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Poetry
Ghosts on the Road: Poems of Alabama, Mexico and Beyond
Poems about San Miguel de Allende, its people and its history, and the author’s Alabama home and his travels to Europe.
Wayne Greenhaw
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Non-fiction
The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
A behind-the-scenes look at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama, in the mid-1950s,. concentrating on Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the father of the Movement, Edgar Daniel Nixon, a Pullman car porter who became Alabama president of the NAACP.
Wayne Greenhaw
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Non-fiction
Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
An Alabama journalist’s personal view of the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, The black community and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reaction to Ku Klux Klan violence after U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional laws requiring segregation of races on public transportation. White lawyers join black attorneys in their struggle after the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church that killed four young black girls. The ACLU joins the court fights, the Southern Poverty Law Center is organized, and a young Alabama attorney general prosecutes a Klansman for the Birmingham bombing.
Wayne Greenhaw
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