Richard Bailey, Ph.D., author / historian

Since returning to Montgomery, Richard Bailey has been a consultant for the Center for Public Television at the University of Alabama, where he was a consultant for their productions on the Lincoln School of Marion and Reconstruction black officeholders. For the Division of Telecommunication and Educational Television at Auburn University, Bailey was an advisor for the Gee's Bend story and the Horace King documentary. He was a consultant for the award-winning radio documentary Remembering Slavery, produced by the Institute for Language and Culture at the University of Montevallo. In the mid-1980s, Gov. George C. Wallace appointed him twice to the De Soto Commission to reconstruct the path of the Spanish explorer through Alabama. Kiosks along select Alabama highways identify the route of De Soto. Bailey received a joint fellowship to travel and study in Europe and Africa from Cleveland (Ohio) State University and the University of Massachusetts. Kansas State University awarded him the doctor of philosophy degree in American history. He speaks regularly at grade schools, colleges and universities and has appeared on radio and television to discuss genealogy, Alabama and American history, and election returns.

Presentations by Richard Bailey
Reconstruction in Alabama

Rock in a Weary Land: The Black Church in 19th-Century Alabama