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- 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