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- Program for a mass meeting of the Montgomery Improvement Association at the Mount Zion A.M.E. Zion Church.
- 1956-01-16
- 2009-09-11
- Program for a mass meeting of the Montgomery Improvement Association at Holt Street Baptist Church.
- 1956-09-24
- 2009-09-11
- Speech George Wallace made during his "stand in the schoolhouse door," when he attempted to prevent the desegregation of the University of Alabama.
- 1963-06-11
- 2009-09-11
- Transcript for the trial of Rosa Parks vs. City of Montgomery.
- 1956
- 2009-09-15
- Proclamation by Governor John Patterson, declaring a state of martial rule in Montgomery, "as a result of outside agitators coming into Alabama to violate our laws and customs" which has led to "outbreaks of lawlessness and mob action."
- 1961-05-21
- 2012-01-27
- "Ballots, Bullets and Blood."
- "How Blacks Have Died for the Right to Vote." Leaflet issued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Inside is a list of African Americans who were killed from 1955 to 1968: Lamar Smith, George W. Lee, Herbert Lee, Medgar...
- 2009-09-11
- Statement by the President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the Rev. M. L. King, Jr., December 20, 1956.
- 1956-12-20
- After the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional, King made this statement to announce the end of the bus boycott.
- 2009-09-11
- 5000 at Meeting Outline Boycott; Bullet Clips Bus.
- 1955-10-10
- Article from the Montgomery Advertiser.
- 2009-09-15
- Bus Boycott Conference Fails to Find Solution.
- 1955-12-09
- Article from the Montgomery Advertiser.
- 2009-09-15
- What Did the Supreme Court Actually Rule?
- 1956-04-26
- Article from the Montgomery Advertiser.
- 2009-09-15
- "Alabamians Assail Ad Backing Dr. King."
- 1960-04-08
- Article from The New York Times that discusses reaction to an advertisement published by the paper, requesting funds for the legal defense of Martin Luther King, Jr. Alabamians are indignant about claims the ad made against state officials and...
- 2010-07-27
- "Heed Their Rising Voices."
- 1960-03-29
- Copy of an advertisement published in The New York Times by the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in the South. The ad describes nonviolent civil rights demonstrations across the South, specifically mentioning a...
- 2010-07-27
- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on July 20, 1960.
- 1960-07-20
- During the meeting Dr. H. Councill Trenholm presented the report that had been requested by the Board on June 14. Afterward the governor and the superintendent of education thanked him for the "progress he had made in organizing the college so that...
- 2010-01-28
- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on March 2, 1960.
- 1960-03-02
- During the meeting the Board discussed a recent demonstration at the segregated Court House Restaurant in downtown Montgomery, which was led by students from Alabama State College. Dr. H. Councill Trenholm, president of the school, appeared before...
- 2010-01-25
- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on March 25, 1960.
- 1960-03-25
- During the meeting the Board discussed recent activity at Alabama State College, where students had been involved in civil rights demonstrations; the police commissioner of Montgomery had recommended that the entire school be shut down. Governor...
- 2010-01-25
- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on August 22, 1960.
- 1960-08-22
- During the meeting the Board discussed the federal court hearing that would be held later in the day, during which several of the expelled Alabama State College students would appeal to be readmitted for the fall term. Governor Patterson and...
- 2010-01-28
- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on June 14, 1960.
- 1960-06-14
- During the meeting the Board examined a report prepared by the Department of Public Safety on Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, a professor at Alabama State College who had led students in a civil rights demonstration in March. Governor Patterson...
- 2010-01-28
- "Negroes' Most Urgent Needs."
- 1955-03
- Flier issued by African American citizens in Montgomery, Alabama, to expose the injustices and unacceptable living conditions affecting their community.
- 2009-09-11
- Letter from Calvin F. Craig, Grand Dragon of Georgia for the United Klans of America, and the response from the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965-04
- In the first letter, dated April 5, 1965, Craig writes Governor George Wallace to ask for photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March and for information about the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace. He mentions that he is...
- 2010-01-28
- Letters between Senator Alton L. Turner of Luverne, Alabama, and Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery.
- 1967
- In the first letter, written January 31, 1967, Turner asks for information about the Tuskegee Institute Community Education Program (TICEP). In the second letter, written February 1, 1967, Strickland explains that the educational outreach program...
- 2010-01-28