Alabama literature
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Alabama literature includes the prose fiction, poetry, films and biographies that are set in or created by those from the US state of Alabama. This literature officially began emerging from the state circa 1819 with the recognition of the region as a state. Like other forms of literature from the Southern United States, Alabama literature often discusses issues of race, stemming from the history of the slave society, the American Civil War, the Reconstruction era and Jim Crow laws, and the US Civil Rights Movement. Alabama literature was inspired by the latter's significant campaigns and events in the state, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Selma to Montgomery marches.
Some of the most notable pieces of literature from this region include Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Winston Groom’s novel Forrest Gump, and Fannie Flagg’s novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe. The biographies of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are also highly significant.