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. 


Episode 89 - Dr. John Giggie on 2025 Ala Hist Assn Coley Book Award

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