Join us at Page & Palette for Signing Saturday! On January 10th at 1PM, Joe Cuhaj will be here with his book, Notable Women of Alabama. Enjoy a cup of coffee or a glass of wine as you visit Joe's table. We hope to see you there!

Notable Women of Alabama

Notable Women of Alabama showcases the unique journeys and challenges of 50 women who made cultural and societal changes not only in Alabama, but the nation and the world as well.

Women in Alabama have made an outsized contribution to both the state and the nation. Before Rosa Parks, fifteen-year old Claudette Colvin challenged segregation laws on a bus in Montgomery. Georgia Gilmore used her cooking skills to empower and support protestors during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. Singer “Big Mama” Thornton became the bridge between rock ‘n roll and the blues. After being crowned Miss America in 1951, the “Basque Spitfire” Yolande Betbeze took a defiant stand for women, forcing changes in the pageant industry. Author Joe Cuhaj profiles the unique journeys, challenges and triumphs of these and many more women who have helped shape the cultural and social landscape of not only Alabama but the world as well.

Joe Cuhaj

Local author Joe Cuhaj is the author of 20 books including 13 guides to hiking, paddling, and camping in Alabama and the Gulf Coast, and seven nonfiction history titles including Mobile and Baldwin County-centric titles: Baseball in Mobile, A History Lover’s Guide to Mobile, and Hidden History of Mobile. Joe is currently working on the first book in a cozy mystery series set in a Gulf Coast port city in 1943.