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Joe Persico, author of 11,11,11, a history of the end of World War I, famed artist Leonard Brooks, and Wayne Greenhaw meet in San Miguel
de Allende, Mexico
BULLETIN
June 22, 2010
Publication set for Greenhaw's 22nd book for January 1, 2011.
Greenhaw to present at Amelia Island Book Festival on Friday, February 18, 2011. He will participate on a panel that weekend. "Amelia Island is always a splendid festival and I know it will be terrific again," the author stated.
May 14, 2009
Wayne Greenhaw signs contract for a new book with Lawrence Hill Books, FIGHTING THE DEVIL IN DIXIE: How Civil Rights Activists Took On The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama.
"It will be a major book on the history of civil rights in Alabama after the Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery's segregationist law was unconstitutional following the year-long bus boycott," Greenhaw said.
"That was when the segregationists began burning homes and bombing churches, hoping to stop the movement and preserve the Southern Way of Life." FIGHTING will be the author's twenty-second book.
February 27, 2009
Wayne Greenhaw's latest book, A GENEROUS LIFE: The Story of W. James Samford Jr., was launched at a private party at the Saugahatchee Country Club in east-central Alabama near Auburn. The author signed more than 70 copies for friends whose interviews appear in the book.
February 25, 2009
Wayne Greenhaw delivered the Neil & Henrietta Davis Annual Lecture at the Auburn Hotel and Conference Center at 5 p.m.
During the day, Greenhaw spoke to five journalism classes.
The Lecture was sponsored by the journalism department at Auburn University in remembrance of the Davises who operated the Lee County Bulletin in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. It became the Auburn Bulletin.
Neil Davis was a legendary progressive editorialist and among the first to tell the people of his community that desegregation was on its way. He campaigned against the poll tax which was used during the Great Depression to keep poor people -- especially blacks -- from registering to vote.
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