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- "Negroes Beware / Do Not Attend Communist Meetings."
- Anti-communist flier issued by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 2009-09-11
- "Colored Citizens Mass Meeting."
- 1900
- Flyer for a prohibition meeting organized by African American ministers in Birmingham, Alabama. The meeting was held "to protest against colored women visiting barrooms and barroom premises. Also against children visiting such places, for whisky...
- 2010-11-12
- "As to An Immigration Bureau."
- 1902-11-07
- This article reports that the German Immigration Society of Birmingham supports the establishment of a state immigration bureau and a commissioner who will be responsible for recruiting white farmers to Alabama. The Society stresses that it does...
- 2010-01-25
- Correspondence written to and by Birmingham businessman Frederick M. Jackson, from 1905 to 1907.
- 1905
- Much of the correspondence is concerned with different coal properties in Alabama and Tennessee that were available for investment. There are also letters from people wanting information on the quality of coal at different mines. Letters from John...
- 2011-10-24
- Letters to and from J. T. Denson in Montgomery, Alabama, regarding a questionnaire sent to automobile owners in Alabama.
- 1915-05-00
- At the time of this correspondence, Denson was serving on the Public Roads and Highways Committee of the Alabama Senate. The first letter is a copy of the questionnaire; the recipient wrote his answers in the margins and sent the page back to...
- 2009-12-03
- "Every Woman Wants a Buck's Sanitary Porcelain Enameled Combination All-Cast Range."
- 1921-02-03
- Advertisement for a stove at Haverty Furniture Company in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 2011-11-21
- "The Hoosier Club Plan."
- 1921-02-10
- Advertisement for Hoosier cabinets sold at the Jacobs store in Birmingham, Alabama: "This plan enables you to place one of the famous Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets in your home on payment of ONE DOLLAR--balance payable on club plan terms of convenient...
- 2011-11-21
- Advertisement for "The Alabama Home" in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1921-02-10
- "'The Alabama Home' also issues paid-up and special certificates...The money invested helps make Birmingham a City of Homes."
- 2011-11-21
- "Radio or Phonograph? Every Home Should Have Both."
- 1926-10-03
- Advertisement for Clark and Jones in Birmingham, "Largest Victor Dealers in Alabama."
- 2011-11-21
- Advertisement for Roebuck Park, "A Suburban Estate Without Crossing Mountains," in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1926-10-03
- "The purpose of this development is to give the man of moderate means an opportunity to own a suburban estate. Each tract is absolutely level, high and dry, cherted streets. Schools and churches go to make this one of Birmingham's most popular...
- 2011-11-21
- Advertisement for Redmont Park, a suburban development in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1926-10-03
- "...sales within the past 30 days alone of $125,000. These figures are significant. They bring a message fraught with meaning to the man who plans to build and wants a home where future values will be greater than present values. They disclose the...
- 2011-11-21
- "Free! Try a Maytag at home - on your whole week's washing."
- 1926-10-03
- Advertisement for Maytag aluminum washers from the Household Appliance Company in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 2011-11-21
- "30 miles on a gallon / Economy that only Whippet owners enjoy."
- 1926-10-04
- Advertisement for Whippet automobiles from the Willys-Knight Overland Co. in Birmingham, Alabama: "Smoothness of course - and all the power and performance any light car can offer...PLUS the greatest gasoline economy the world has ever known -...
- 2011-11-21
- "Back to Normalcy."
- 1929-10-26
- This article argues that the stock market crash was inevitable because "the country had gone speculation mad"; while the country will suffer "painful consequences," the author predicts that "the shock will not be so severe as it has been on former...
- 2010-01-25
- "Death Penalty for Crime."
- 1931-04-25
- Thomas Walker Wallace wrote this piece for his column "Here and There," which was published in the Birmingham Reporter, an African American newspaper. In it he argues against the death penalty. While he concedes that "It seems reasonable that when...
- 2010-07-27
- Correspondence dealing with a Communist activities in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1932-10
- In the first letter Brigadier General J. C. Persons of the Alabama National Guard sends Governor Benjamin Miller an account of recent events in Birmingham, which was submitted by another officer. The second letter contains the report of Second...
- 2009-08-24
- "To All Alabama and Georgia Textile Strikers: On to Victory! With Flying Squadrons and Mass Picket Lines!"
- 1934
- Flier issued by the Communist Party, U.S.A., in Birmingham, Alabama. It describes the background and progress of the strike; identifies the "open enemies of the strikers"; lists of the demands of the United Textile Workers of America; and stresses...
- 2010-02-10
- "Workers--White and Negro Unite to Win!"
- 1934
- Advertisement for a May Day rally sponsored by the International Labor Defense, to be held Birmingham, Alabama, on May 1. The flier encourages unity among workers of both races to "Defy the terror and Jim Crow orders of the bosses" and to resist...
- 2011-01-13
- "Miners, Fight To Win! Steel Workers, Strike!"
- 1934
- Flier issued by the Communist Party in Birmingham, Alabama, urging local steel industry employees ("Working men and women, white and Negro!") to join the general miners' strike: "The miners' strike must be won! They can win the war against the NRA...
- 2011-01-13
- "For Higher Wages! For Unemployment Insurance! For Recognition of the Labor Unions!!"
- 1934
- Advertisement for a May Day rally sponsored by the Communist Party in Birmingham, Alabama. The flier encourages unity among workers of both races because "united action of white and Negro workers is the way to win." It also includes a copy of the...
- 2011-01-13