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- Transcript of a public meeting held by the Montgomery County Citizens' Council at Garrett Coliseum.
- 1961-06-08
- The meeting was led by Don Hallmark and featured the following speakers: Montgomery Mayor Earl James, Dr. Henry Lyon of Highland Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery Citizens' Council Chairman Carl Herbert Lancaster, and Alabama Attorney General...
- 2011-09-12
- Document granting James Caller power of attorney to reclaim two slaves who had been stolen from Malachi and Mary Murphee of South Carolina.
- 1804-07-05
- Caller was living in Washington County of the Mississippi Territory (later the Alabama Territory) when the Murphees hired him "to take two Negros Namely Remus & Frank which Thomas Bates and others stold away from us." [Original spelling retained.]
- 2010-11-12
- Handwritten copy of a letter from John W. A. Sanford in Montgomery, Alabama, to Confederate Attorney General Thomas H. Watts.
- 1863-03-10
- In the letter Sanford asks that his brother-in-law be promoted and transferred out of Captain Henry Semple's artillery unit (known as Semple's Battery). Following the letter (which was copied by Semple), are notes regarding the application and a...
- 2011-07-01
- Letter from Captain Henry Semple to Major T. B. Roy, assistant attorney general in Hardee's Corps.
- 1863-05-01
- During the Civil War, Semple served as a captain of an artillery battery organized in Montgomery (known as Semple's Battery). He was later appointed a major and transferred to Mobile. In the letter Semple asks Roy about the eligibility of an...
- 2011-07-01
- Brief and argument by Attorney General John Patterson in response to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court.
- 1956-08-10
- King had been convicted on March 22 for his leadership in the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 2009-09-04
- Telegram from Governor John Patterson to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in Washington, D.C.
- 1961-08-28
- In the message Patterson discusses the Freedom Riders who recently entered Monroe, North Carolina. He criticizes Kennedy's "encouragement of these lawless groups" and asks him to change his position: "Once again, I call on you to take a public...
- 2012-01-27
- Letter from Edwin Strickland, "a disgusted American," to Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
- 1962-10-10
- Strickland would later serve as the staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace. In the letter he criticizes federal intervention during civil rights demonstrations in the South: "...with callous disregard for state...
- 2010-01-28
- Letter from U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in Washington, D.C., to Governor George C. Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965-04-27
- In the letter Katzenbach discusses reports of racial discrimination in state parks and liquor stores in Alabama: "Under Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I have a responsibility to see that such segregation practices by the State of...
- 2012-01-27