John M GiggieJohn M. Giggie is associate professor of history and director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama. He is creator of "History of Us," the first Black history class taught daily in a public school in Alabama Giggie is also director of the Alabama Memory Project, which seeks to recapture and memorialize the over 650 lives lost to lynching in Alabama, and a founding member of the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History and Reconciliation Foundation. He is the author of After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915. Read More Read Less