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Alabama Heritage, Spring 2005

THE ART OF ZELDA FITZGERALD

By Everl Adair

EVERL ADAIR currently serves as the Communications Director at the R.W. Norton Art Callers' in Shreveport, Louisiana. Having worked previously as both a teacher and writer in the fields of education and entertainment in locales ranging from Virginia to Texas to California, she continues to seek to educate and entertain by writing about the many celebrated artists whose work is exhibited at the Gallery. In addition to her nonfiction articles, Ms. Adair writes poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared in various magazines and journals including Amelia, Arrtimes, Northcoast View, and City Lights, among others.

For further reading, see: ZeMa Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise (Arcade Publishing), written by Sally Cline, or Zelda, An Illustrated Life: The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.), edited by Eleanor Lanahan.

WILLIAM BENSON AND THE KOWALIGA SCHOOL

By Michael Sznajdennan and Leak Rawls Atkins

MICHAEL SZNAJDERMAN is a former newspaper reporter, editor, and columnist who now makes his living in corporate communications. His freelance articles have appeared in American Journalism Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and the London Jewish Chronicle, among other publications. His last piece fox Alabama Heritage, about children on the front lines of the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, appeared in the Fall 2003 issue. He lives in Shelby County.

Leah Rawls Atkins, director emerita of the Auburn University Center for the Arts & Humanities, holds a Ph.D. from Auburn and has taught history at Auburn, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Samford University. She is a co-author of the award-winning Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, published by the University of Alabama Press in 1994. She retired in 1995, and since then has written a biography of John M. Harbert III, a corporate history of Brasfield & Gorrie, and is currently writing the centennial history of the Alabama Power Company. She lives in Birmingham.

The authors wish to thank Alabama Power for providing access to the company's archives, as well as Blue Vardaman of Russell Lands and Tallapoosa County Commissioner Thomas "T. C." Coley Jr. for sharing information.

For this article the authors relied mainly on primary sources, deeds, Alabama Power Company correspondence and records, and newspapers. In fact, there is very little independent scholarship on William Bcnson and the Kowaliga School, but two books that contain brief sections about him and his institution are: William P. Ingram's A Histoiy of Tallapoosa County (W. P. Ingram) and Richard Bailey's They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles, 180Û0 -1999 (Pyramid Publishing, Inc).

THE GREAT MOBILE WHISKEY WAR

By Samuel L. Webb

SAMUEL L. WEBB, a native of York, Alabama, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has a Ph.D in history' from the University of Arkansas and a J. D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author of Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South: Alabama's Hi// Country 1814-1920 (University of Alabama Press) and coeditor of Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State (University of Alabama Press). A former Deputy District Attorney of Jefferson County and Assistant State Attorney General, Webb also engaged in private law practice. He is married to Ann Williams Webb, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.

Among important sources used in preparing this article were the Mobile Register 1923-26; transcript of the 1926 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on the nomination of Aubrey W. Boyles to the post of U.S. Attorney; "The Great Bootleg Conspiracy of 1924," by Chris McFayden, in the March 1993 edition of Mobile Bay Monthly; articles by Sam Hodges about Frank Boykin in the Mobile Press-Register, December 16-22, 2001; and Virginia van der Veer Hamilton's Hugo Black: The Alabama Years (University of Alabama Press).