Pizitz

Pizitz
Title Pizitz PDF eBook
Author Tim Hollis
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 130
Release 2010-11-05
Genre History
ISBN 1614232199

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For nearly ninety years, Pizitz offered Birmingham residents and Alabamans across the state a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. From the Enchanted Forest that sprung up every Christmas to in-store fashion shows, visiting Pizitz wasn't just a trip to the store, it was an event. Yet Pizitz was more than just a department store--it was a Birmingham institution. When Louis Pizitz opened up his first dry goods store in downtown Birmingham in 1899, he began a career as a successful businessman and a generous philanthropist, establishing a tradition of giving freely to local causes that has come to define the Pizitz family. Join Birmingham historian Tim Hollis as he recounts the fascinating history behind one of Alabama's most recognizable names and treasured retailers.

Carry Me Home

Carry Me Home
Title Carry Me Home PDF eBook
Author Diane McWhorter
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 706
Release 2001-06-29
Genre History
ISBN 0743226488

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Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.

Birmingham's Theater and Retail District

Birmingham's Theater and Retail District
Title Birmingham's Theater and Retail District PDF eBook
Author Tim Hollis
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 132
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN 9780738517773

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From the 1890s to the 1970s, the thriving area of Birmingham between Eighteenth and Twenty-first Streets along First, Second, and Third Avenues was the bustling heart of this quickly growing city. Before the age of the shopping mall, the downtown was the center of retail and entertainment in Birmingham. Along these streets, entrepreneurial immigrants built department stores--including Pizitz and Loveman, Joseph, and Loeb--while the marquees of the Alabama, Ritz, and Lyric theaters, among others, shined over the busy downtown sidewalks.

To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency

To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency
Title To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reorganization, Research, and International Organizations
Publisher
Pages 1352
Release 1973
Genre
ISBN

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Transfer of Technology to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Transfer of Technology to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Title Transfer of Technology to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher
Pages 1726
Release 1975
Genre Technical assistance, American
ISBN

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To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency

To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency
Title To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations
Publisher
Pages 1206
Release 1973
Genre
ISBN

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A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie

A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie
Title A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie PDF eBook
Author Mark H. Elovitz
Publisher University of Alabama Press
Pages 271
Release 2003-03-27
Genre History
ISBN 0817350217

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The first substantial history of the Jews in the industrial south This is the first substantial history of the Jews in any inland town or city of the industrial South. The author starts with the Reconstruction Period when the community was established and he carries the story down into the 1970’s. First there were the “Germans,”' the pioneers who built the community; then came the East Euopean emigres who had to cope not only with the problem of survival but the disdain if not the hostility of the already acculturated Central European settlers who had forgotten their own humble beginnings. After World War I came the fusion of the two groups and the need to cooperate religiously and to integrate their cultural, social, and philanthropic institutions. Binding them together and speeding the rise of a total Jewish community was the ever present fear of anti-Jewish prejudice and the “peculiar” problem, a real one, of steering a course between the Christian Whites and the Christian Blacks.