Air Date: November 3, 2025

Dr. John Giggie, associate professor of history and director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama discusses his 2024 book, Bloody Tuesday, The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa that received the Alabama Historical Association’s 2025 Clinton, Jackson and Evelyn Coley Book Award. In addition to the book and the Civil Rights Movement events it covers, Giggie talks about “shared authority” in doing first person and community scholarship.

Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3uxwr7t3

Links mentioned in the episode –

Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/

AHA’s Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley Book Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/coley-book-award

Dr. John Giggie: https://history.ua.edu/people/john-m-giggie/

Bloody Tuesday, The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bloody-tuesday-9780197766668?cc=us&lang=en&

Tuscaloosa, AL: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa/

First African Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa: http://www.firstafricanchurch.org/discover/our-history.html

Reverend T.Y. Rogers: https://tavm.omeka.net/exhibits/show/african-american-history/item/50

SCLC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference

Bloody Tuesday, June 4, 1964: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa-campaign-and-bloody-tuesday/

Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bloody-sunday/

James Bevel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bevel

Robert (Bobby) Shelton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shelton_(Ku_Klux_Klan)

Ku Klux Klan: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/ku-klux-klan-in-contemporary-alabama/

Joe Mallisham: https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/1102

Tuscaloosa Bus Boycott, 1964: https://civilrightstuscaloosa.org/trail/stop-7/

Charles Steele: https://tavm.omeka.net/exhibits/show/african-american-history/item/736

Reverend TW Linton: https://cbn.com/article/not-selected/thomas-linton-living-saint-civil-rights-history-0

Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Trail: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa-civil-rights-trail/

The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.

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.