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- Speech by O. B. Porterfield, minister at the Cleveland Avenue Church of Christ in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965-03-24
- This speech was originally broadcast on a local television station during the last days of the Selma to Montgomery March. In it, Porterfield denounces the demonstration, especially the "so-called preachers" who are participating. He argues that "it...
- 2009-09-04
- "Court's march order ends at Capitol."
- 1965-03-24
- This article from the Birmingham News discusses the extent of the order issued by U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson, which permitted and protected the Selma to Montgomery March: "The order.stops short of approving plans for a demonstration on...
- 2011-01-13
- 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
- Letter from David W. Crosland, solicitor for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama in Montgomery, to Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace.
- 1965-04-07
- In the letter Crosland discusses his intention to present to the grand jury a report about the recent civil rights demonstrations in Montgomery County. He asks Strickland for evidence to support the "great many rumors about immoral acts" among the...
- 2010-01-28
- Letter from Virgil Stuart, chief of police in St. Augustine, Florida, to Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery.
- 1965-08-18
- In the letter Stuart thanks Strickland for sending a report recently produced by the Commission. He also mentions two reports from the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, which he is enclosing.
- 2010-01-28
- Letter from Albert J. Lingo in Birmingham, Alabama, to Bill Jones, press secretary for Governor George Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965-10-15
- Lingo served as director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety from 1963 to 1965. In the letter he discusses the book Jones is writing about the governor, which blames Lingo for the violence that occurred in Selma on March 7: "You know as well...
- 2010-04-23
- Letter from nine citizens in Auburn, Alabama, to Governor Wallace in Montgomery.
- 1966-09-21
- In the letter the citizens ask for information about the Alabama Council on Human Relations because a family associated with that organization has recently moved into the neighborhood: "If it has subversive or criminal connections, we want to know....
- 2010-01-28
- "Voter lists up by 31% after federal drive."
- 1966-10-02
- This article from the Birmingham News discusses the increase in the number of registered voters in Alabama following the Voting Rights Act of 1965: "It was an over-all gain of more than 31 per cent which affected the voter totals of virtually all...
- 2011-01-13
- "Negro voter may cast deciding ballot Tuesday."
- 1966-11-06
- This article from the Birmingham News discusses the role of African American voters in Alabama's upcoming gubernatorial election. It examines the factors that will influence the "power of the Negro vote" in the three-way contest, including voter...
- 2011-01-13
- 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
- Memo from Senator John H. Hawkins, Jr., to the office personnel at the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace.
- 1967-04-07
- In the memo Hawkins informs the staff that the information gathered will be confidential because of the "commission's work in the field of subversive activities in the civil rights movements."
- 2010-01-28
- Letter from Samuel Gross Levy in Brookly, New York, to Governor Lurleen Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1967-04-10
- In the letter Levy expresses his support for the governor and her husband amid the racial tension in the state: "The North resents negro rioting, and the negro declaration of war against the whites...The North needs a strong man to safeguard white...
- 2009-09-04
- Letter from George Lambert in Huntsville, Alabama, to Governor Lurleen Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1967-04-11
- In the letter Lambert asks the governor to support state education by hiring more teachers; allowing local school boards and educators to control their systems; and cooperating "fully with the Federal Government to the mutual advantage of our State...
- 2009-09-04
- Letter from John P. Thomas, minister at St. Luke Methodist Church in Enterprise, Alabama, to Ed Strickland of the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1968-03-06
- In the letter Thomas describes Bible school literature he recently saw that pictured Martin Luther King, Jr., and compared him with the apostle Paul. Thomas finds the material "repulsive" and asks Strickland if there is any evidence to confirm...
- 2010-01-28
- 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
- Excerpts from IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND: A SLAVE FAMILY IN THE OLD SOUTH by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger.
- 2006-00-00
- The passages describe the lives and contributions of three freedmen of the Rapier family. John H. Rapier, Jr., was a physician at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. John H. Rapier, Sr., a barber in Florence, Alabama, served as a voter...
- 2009-06-25