Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946

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Notes 1. THE CITY AT THE START OF THE WAR 1. Montgomery Advertiser, September 1, 1939. 2. Charles Wampole, Jr., interview with the author, November 13, 1987. 3. Montgomery Advertiser, September 1, 1939. 4. Ennels and Newton, The Wisdom ofEagles, 41-68. 5. Montgomery Advertiser, September 1-4,9, October 24, November 1, 1939; Stokesbury, A Short History ofAir Power, 194-195; Sherry, The Rise ofAmerican Air Power, 76-79. 6. Ralph Loeb, Jr., interview with the author, June 13, 1991. 7. Ibid. 8. John Sawyer, interview with the author, September 10, 1991. 9. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, preface, 11-18; Montgomery Advertiser, September 1, 1940. 10. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, pp. 716-720, 726-728. 11. Ennels and Newton, The Wisdom ofEagles, 77; A History ofMontgomery in Pictures, 152. 12. Rogers, Ward, Atkins, and Flynt, Alabama, 190-191. 13. Montgomery Advertiser, November 26, December 4,17,19-20. 1939, November 10, 19-20, 1940. 14. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, p. 930; Branch, Parting the Waters, 1-5; Montgomery Advertiser, March 16, 1945. 15. Montgomery Advertiser, May 6, 1898; Montgomery City Directory, 1939, pp. 776,845; Greenhaw, Montgomery, 12,24. 16. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, pp. 795-796, 811-812. 17. Ibid. 18. Coleman, Escape the Thunder, 9-10. 19. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, pp. 797,929. 20. Ibid., 727-728. 262 Notes to Pages 7-12 21. Ibid., 728. 22. Ibid., 712-714, 720. 23. Ibid., 712, 797-800; Connor, Remember When. .. ? 21; The Story ofWSFA, 4,7-8,20,30,32,34. 24. Montgomery Advertiser, December 14, 1939. 25. Montgomery Advertiser, January 16, 19,20-21,23,28-29,1940. 26. Sawyer, interview with the author, September 10, 1991. 27. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, pp. 780-782. See Montgomery City Directory , 1939, for North Perry, North Lawrence, and North McDonough and intersecting streets Jefferson, Columbus, Randolph, and Pollard for the composition of the industrial park. 28. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, pp. 931-932. 29. Ibid.; Loeb, interview with the author, June 13, 1991. 30. Ennels and Newton, The Wisdom ofEagles, 57,94. 31. Ibid., 67. 32. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, pp. 818-819; Ennels and Newton, The Wisdom ofEagles, 66. 33. Ennels and Newton, The Wisdom ofEagles, 54; Montgomery City Directory , 1939, p. 958; oral history statements by Johnnie Carr and John Sawyer at a meeting ofOne Montgomery, an interracial group, September 15, 1998. 34. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, p. 958; Montgomery Advertiser, June 23, 1940. 35. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, p. 811. 36. Thornton, "Challenge and Response," 464; Montgomery Advertiser, December 5, 1940. 37. J. Mills Thornton, interview with the author, July 27, 1992; Montgomery Advertiser, December 5, 1940. 38. Thornton, interview with the author, July 27, 1992. 39. Montgomery Advertiser, September 4, 1940, July 3, 1942; Sawyer, interview with the author, September 10, 1991. Sawyer did not experience police brutality but heard it described by other blacks. On the condition of blacks in the u.S. on the eve ofWorld War II, see Polenberg, One Nation Divisible, 24-30. 40. Montgomery Advertiser, October 11-12, 1939. 41. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, p. 428. 42. Montgomery Advertiser, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 11, 18, 1939, January 22, September 23, November 12, 17, 1940. 43. Idessa (Taylor) Redden, interview with the author, September 22,1991. 44. Montgomery City Directory, 1939, pp. 427-428. Notes to Pages 13-18 263 45. See Minutes ofthe Meeting ofthe Montgomery City Commission [Office of the City Clerk, City Hall] for 1938 and 1939 for the paving and water extension patterns, and the means and methods of financing these, in the city by the outbreak ofWorld War II. (The minutes are hereafter cited as Minutes, MCC.) 46. Minutes, MCC, 1938-1941. 47. Greenhaw, Montgomery, 64. Paul Robinson observed the West End environment as a boy in a middle-class family in Riverside Heights. See Paul Robinson, interview with the author, March 24,1991. 48. Montgomery City Directory, 823-824; Minutes, MCC, April 23, 1940. 49. Montgomery Advertiser, November 6,1940; Ennels and Newton, The Wisdom ofEagles, 71. 50. Montgomery Advertiser, September 29, 1940, June 27, 1999. 5l. Montgomery County Probate Judge's Office, Tax Assessment Records, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Books LG 675, 684,686,691-692. 52. Key, Southern Politics in State and Nation, 36-44, 56; Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt, viii; Thornton, "Alabama Politics," 349-358; Flynt,Dlxies Forgotten People, 74,95. For...