Wayne Flynt, a retired Alabama history professor, said that often the state's history books focus less on historical facts and more on culture. "If the history you're getting in Alabama is so different from the history they're getting everywhere else that it makes you a pariah, and an outcast, and at the cocktail parties it makes you sound like an idiot and people began point at you, and say, 'Oh, well you have to cut him some space, he's from Alabama.' Well, that's what you want. That's what yo

On June 11, 1963, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was a focal point of the Civil Rights Movement. Sixty years ago today marked a crucial turning point in the struggle for racial equality in the United States when the University of Alabama was successfully integrated. Vivian Malone and James Hood, two Black students, had been denied admission to the university due to their race. However, under the orders of President John F. Kennedy, federal authorities intervened to enforce their enrollment. Gov. George Wa