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Notes Introduction 1. Mobile Daily Register, December 30, 1899. 2. Ibid., January 1, 1901. 3. Birmingham Age-Herald, December 30, 1900, January 1, 1901. Chapter One Dabney Palmer’s letter to his granddaughter at the University of Alabama, which begins this chapter, courtesy of Roselyn Martindale. 1. Quoted in Malcolm C. McMillan, Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798–1901: A Study of Politics, Sectionalism, and the Negro (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955), 225 n. 49. Though half a century old, McMillan’s work remains the most thorough treatment of the 1901 constitution. 2. Of¤cial Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Alabama, May 21, 1901, to September 3, 1901, 1:538–42. 3. Quoted in McMillan, Constitutional Development in Alabama, 293, 295 n. 67. 4. Tuscaloosa American, July 28, 1898, quoted in McMillan, Constitutional Development in Alabama, 254. 5. Quoted in McMillan, Constitutional Development in Alabama, 305. 6. Montgomery Advertiser, November 5, 7, 10, 1901. 7. Choctaw Advocate, quoted in Montgomery Advertiser, November 6, 1901; Mobile Daily Register, November 3, 1901; Birmingham Age-Herald, November 5, 6, 10, 1901. 8. Quoted in McMillan, Constitutional Development in Alabama, 269, esp. n. 41. 9. Bailey Thomson, “Absurd in Alabama,” “Century of Shame,” Mobile Register , October 20, 2000. A shorter version of my chapter, incorporating many of Thomson’s ¤ndings, was published in A Century of Controversy: Constitutional Reform in Alabama, ed. Bailey Thomson (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002). Chapter Two 1. V. O. Key, Southern Politics in State and Nation (New Y ork: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 36. 2. John Hayman with Clara Ruth Hayman, A Judge in the Senate: Howell He®in’s Career of Politics and Principle (Montgomery: New South Books, 2001), 365. 3. Sam Hodges, B-Four (New Y ork: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 29. 4. James F. Doster, Railroads in Alabama Politics, 1875–1914 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1957), 177. 5. MS of speech by Edgar Gardner Murphy to Alabama Legislature on July 8, 1907, Edgar Gardner Murphy Papers, Alabama Department of Archives and History . 6. Quoted in David A. Harris, “Racists and Reformers: A Study of Progressivism in Alabama, 1896–1911,” Ph.D. diss., UniversityofNorthCarolina,1967,315. 7. Hugh Reagan, “The Presidential Campaign of 1928 in Alabama,” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, 1961, 411. 8. Quoted in Elizabeth Bower Clark, “The Abolition of the Convict Lease System in Alabama, 1913–1928,” master’s thesis, University of Alabama, 1949, 54–57. 9. These quotations are found in Clark, “Abolition of the Convict Lease System ,” 94–96. 10. Quoted in Ralph M. Tanner, “James Thomas He®in: United States Senator, 1920–1931,” Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama, 1967, 6. 11. Quoted in Ralph M. Tanner, “The Wonderful World of Tom He®in,” Alabama Review 36 (July 1983), 100, 113–14, 117, 147. 12. Quoted in Lee N. Allen, “The 1924 Underwood Campaign in Alabama,” Alabama Review 9 (July 1956): 88. 13. J. A. Estes to O. W. Underwood, April 26, 1920, Oscar Underwood Papers, Alabama Department of Archives and History. 14. Birmingham News, March 28, 1920. 15. Oscar W. Underwood to Thomas F. Ryan, May 14, 1920, Underwood Papers , Alabama Department of Archives and History. 16. Daniel W. Hollis III, “The Hall Family and T wentieth-Century Journalism in Alabama,” Alabama Review 32 (April 1979): 125–26, 129. 17. Daniel W. Hollis III, An Alabama Newspaper Tradition: Grover C. Hall and the Hall Family (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1983), 135. 534 NOTES TO PAGES 30 –56 18. Mrs. John Van Vorst, The Cry of the Children: A Study of Child Labor (New Y ork: Moffat, Yard, 1908), 20–21. 19. Dwayne Cox, “Luther N. Duncan, the Extension Service, and the Farm Bureau, 1921–1932,” Alabama Review 51 (July 1998), 197. 20. Owen Dees, “A General Review of the Miller Administration, 1931–1935,” master’s thesis, Auburn University, 1936, 60, 83. 21. John A. Salmond, “‘Aubrey Williams Remembers’: A Note on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Attitude toward Negro Rights,” Alabama Review 25 (January 1972): 62. 22. John A. Salmond, A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890–1965 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983), 279–80. 23. Quoted in Carl Grafton and Anne Permaloff, “James E. Folsom, 1947– 1951, 1955–1959,” in Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State, ed. Samuel L. Webb and Margaret E. Armbrester (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2001), 203. 24. Quoted in Hugh Merrill, “Jim Folsom,” Atlanta Weekly...
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