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  title info:
    title: Deep South dynasty
    sub title: the Bankheads of Alabama
  name:
    name part: Frederickson, Kari A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: alu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama, 1865-1946 is an epic family biography that reflects the complicated and evolving world inhabited by three generations of the extremely accomplished, if problematic, Bankhead family of northwest Alabama. The book traces the careers of five members of the family, John Hollis Bankhead (1842-1920), his sons, John Hollis Bankhead Jr. (1872-1946) and William Brockman Bankhead (1874-1940), his daughter, Marie Bankhead Owen (1869-1958) and, to a lesser extent, his granddaughter, Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (1902-1968). From Reconstruction through the end of World War II, the Bankheads served as the principal architects of the political, economic and cultural framework of Alabama and the South. A Confederate veteran and the son of a slaveholder and a Confederate veteran, John Hollis Bankhead rose to prominence over a twenty-year period after the Civil War during which he played a key role in crafting a conservative political culture, legal code and economic system that relied upon and perpetuated white supremacy in Alabama. With the consolidation of single party rule, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1886. He would serve in Congress-first the House, then the Senate, for 33 years in all, playing a pivotal role in the development of federal transportation policies and securing funds to build roads and harness waterways to aid economic opportunities for cotton farmers, coal barons and emerging industries across the South. Two of Bankhead's sons, John Jr. and William, followed in their father's political footsteps, beginning with John Jr.'s participation in Alabama's 1901 constitutional convention and his subsequent work drafting the election laws which disenfranchised blacks and poor whites from political life in the state for decades to come. William's election to the House of Representatives in 1916 was followed by John Jr.'s election to the Senate in 1930. Both were key New Deal Democrats who were integrally …
  table of contents: Introduction: Family biography as regional history -- Ascension. Becoming the Bankheads of Alabama ; A slaveholder's son in the postwar South, 1865-1885 ; "He was a getter, and he got" : the making of a New South congressman ; Establishing the new order ; Political challenges, 1904-1907 ; Roads and redemption ; Party men, city women -- Succession. New directions ; Senator from Alabama ; Burning bridges, taking chances ; Mr. Speaker ; "A good soldier in politics" : the last campaign ; At the crossroads.
  note: Kari Frederickson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-al
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bankhead family
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bankhead, John Hollis
      name part: 1842-1920
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bankhead, John Hollis
      name part: 1872-1946
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bankhead, William Brockman
      name part: 1874-1940
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Owen, Marie Bankhead
      name part: 1869-1958
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bankhead, Tallulah
      name part: 1902-1968
  subject:
    geographic: Alabama
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Alabama
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1865-1950
  subject:
    geographic: Alabama
    topic: History
    temporal: 1819-1950
  classification: F326.B36 F74 2022
  classification: 929.20973
  identifier: 9780817321109
  identifier: 0817321101
  identifier: 9780817393816
  identifier: 2021021062
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210507
    record change date: 20220214180006.0
    record identifier: in00004550882