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- "They're After Wallace."
- 1970-04-13
- Article from The Dothan Eagle, which quotes several newspaper columns to "substantiate what Governor George Wallace has been saying all along--that outside money, pressures and influences are being used within Alabama to defeat him, that the...
- 2010-11-08
- "Joe Reed Says Negro Vote Will Decide Winner of Every Alabama State Office."
- 1970-04-25
- Article from the Alabama Journal, reporting on the recent gathering of the Alabama Democratic Conference (an African American political organization). The group met to decide which candidates to endorse in the upcoming election. The article quotes...
- 2010-11-08
- "Wallace for All Alabama."
- 1970-05-00
- Leaflet promoting George Wallace in the 1970 gubernatorial campaign. It lists "Seven Proven Reasons Why Wallace Can Do More for You as Governor!" These include his experience, leadership and motivation; plans to continue his wife's programs ("which...
- 2010-11-08
- "Stand Up for America: It Takes Courage."
- 1972-03-08
- Paid political advertisement for George Wallace, which appeared in the Fort Pierce Shopper. The ad features a list of Wallace's aims and attributes, each beginning with a letter of his name ("Washington is his goal"; "Alabama - proof of his...
- 2010-11-08
- Letter from Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, to Harold Martin, publisher of The Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1973-01-03
- In the letter Strickland complains about a recent newspaper article, which described the Commission as "the state's super-secret spy agency." Strickland argues that the journalist misquoted him and reported hearsay rather than fact. He gives...
- 2010-01-28
- "Selma's 'bloody Sunday' recalled after 10 years."
- 1975-03-02
- This article from the Mobile Press-Register recounts the events of "Bloody Sunday," which some citizens "claim.hastened the passage of the voting rights act by Congress" in 1965. It then examines current conditions for African Americans in the...
- 2011-01-13
- Excerpt from THE REMINISCENCES OF GEORGE STROTHER GAINES: PIONEER STATESMAN OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI, 1805-1843, edited by James P. Pate.
- 1998-00-00
- This passage includes an excerpt from the editor's introduction, which discusses the cession of Choctaw lands east of the Tombigbee River to the United States in October 1816. It also mentions the settlement of French exiles at Demopolis in 1817.
- 2009-06-25
- Excerpt from REMEMBERING JIM CROW: AFRICAN AMERICANS TELL ABOUT LIFE IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH.
- 2001-00-00
- In this passage Leon Alexander, a coal miner and union organizer in Alabama, recalls living and working under Jim Crow laws and his early efforts to fight them. He discusses father's work in the United Mine Workers and the unsuccessful miners'...
- 2009-06-25