Frye Gaillard, Writer in Residence at the University of South Alabama, was born and raised in Mobile, coming of age during the civil rights movement in the South. Those historic events compelled a lifelong reckoning with the issue of race and its effects on the life of our country, and the history and culture of the South. His award-winning works include “Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America,” winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award; and “A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s” and “The Southernization of America,” each chosen by NPR as one of the best...

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