There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the state’s cultural institutions and government react? What changes occurred in its economy and way of life? What, if any, were the long-term consequences in Alabama? The contributors to this volume address these questions and establish a base for further investigation of the state during this era.
Contributors:
David Alsobrook, Wilson Fallin Jr., Robert J. Jakeman, Dowe Littleton, Martin T. Olliff, Victoria E. Ott, Wesley P. Newton, Michael V. R. Thomason, Ruth Smith Truss, and Robert Saunders Jr.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Alabama, April 1917OlliffMartin T.Military Participation at Home and Abroad, 1917–1918TrussRuth Smith“Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Grounds”: Alabama's Military Bases in World War INewtonWesley PhillipsAlabama's Black Baptist Leaders, the Progressive Era, and World War IFallinWilsonA Call to Arms for African Americans during the Age of Jim Crow: Black Alabamians'. Response to the U.S. Declaration of War in 1917AlsobrookDavidFrom the Cotton Field to the Great Waterway: African Americans and the Muscle Shoals Project during World War IOttVictoria E.Mobile in World War IThomasonMichael V. R.The Alabama Council of Defense, 1917–1918LittletonDowe“Can All We Can, and Can the Kaiser, Too”: The Montgomery Cooperative Canning ClubOlliffMartin T.World War I: Catalyst for Social Change in AlabamaSaundersRobertMemorializing World War I in AlabamaJakemanRobert J.NotesContributorsIndex
Martin T. Olliff is Director of the Archives of Wiregrass History and Culture and Assistant Professor of History, Troy University, Dothan. His articles have appeared in Essays inBusiness and Economic History; Alabama Review; Provenance: Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists; and Agricultural History.