By: Rev. George Evans Brewer, Pub. 1942, reprinted 2023, 356 pages, New Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-138-8. The history of Coosa County has been reproduced from a revised edition of the Alabama Historical Quarterly, published by the State Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, AL. Coose County was created in 1832 from land acquired in the Creek Cession of 1832 and named for the Coosa River which shapes the western boundary of the county. In 1900 all court records were destroyed by fire. Marriages and Wills date from 1834, Inventory of Estates from 1897; Orphans Court records from 1843. Contents: Early settlement, organizations, Acts of early courts, opening roads, etc; Wetumpka (its history and leaders); Settlements and Settlers of Coosa (Nixburg, Kellyton, Goodwater, Hatchett, Mt. Olive, Weogufka, Stewartville, Rockford, Marble Valley, Travler's Rest, Boyckville); Offices of Coosa County, 1837-1907, including early customs (i.e. social events); Military records of Coosa 1832-1862, War Records of Coosa, Mexican, War, Confederate War Roster and Companies of Men from Coosa County; Schools and Churches; Times of Political Excitement; Men of Special Note in Coosa (i.e. early prominent settlers, their forebearers and descendants).

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.