White Preacher's Message Lauds Little Known Heroes; Upcoming Signings
Reverend Bob Graetz’s newest column in the Montgomery Advertiser talks about his just-released book, A White Preacher’s Message on Race and Reconciliation, and how Bob and his wife Jeannie wrote the book in part to recognize some of the less well-known participants in the Civil Rights movement. From the column: The real heroes of the […]
Rev. Graetz's White Preacher's Message Now Available; Signing on July 27
NewSouth Books is pleased to announce the publication and release of Reverend Robert Graetz’s A White Preacher’s Message on Race and Reconciliation. A White Preacher’s Message details Rev. Graetz’s life as the young white pastor of a black Lutheran Church in Montgomery, where he and his wife were among the few whites who supported the […]
Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray Awarded NAACP's Highest Honor
On July 17, the NAACP will honor civil rights attorney Fred Gray, NewSouth author of Bus Ride for Justice, with the William Robert Ming Advocacy Award for his long-standing civil rights contributions. Gray, born in Montgomery, Alabama, grew up to become one of only two black lawyers in Montgomery in the 1950s. When his friend […]
New York Times on Katrina's “Hell and High Water”
The New York Times Book Review published a feature on Sunday called “Hell and High Water,” looking at two non-fiction accounts of the Hurricane Katrina devistation. The first, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Co by historian Douglas Brinkley, showcases interviews with New Orleans and Southern residents who weathered the […]
'Still Hungry in America' revisits the South
NPR had an important story on poverty in America yesterday, focused around Robert Coles and Al Clayton’s book Still Hungry in America, which published photographs of the poor and hungry in the 1960s South. For their program, NPR reporter Michele Norris goes with Clayton back to Belzoni, Mississipi, “one of the poorest counties in one […]
SIBA Book Award Winners Announced
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has announced the 2006 SIBA Book Award winners. The award celebrates the best of southern literature, as picked by independent booksellers throughout the South (like the NewSouth Bookstore). The winners are: FICTION: Gods in Alabama, by Joshilyn Jackson ���Gods in Alabama is an intriguing, multi-layered mystery wrapped up in a […]
Civil Rights class visits the NewSouth Bookstore
The NewSouth Bookstore was pleased to greet college students from author and professor Raymond Arsenault’s civil rights class on Wednesday. The students are on a tour of civil rights landmarks, with stops in Albany, Georgia; Nashville, Birmingham, and Montgomery. In Montgomery, the students travelled with historian Dr. J. Mills Thornton and NewSouth’s own Randall Williams, […]