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- "8 Negroes Here Ask Court Erase Parks Barriers."
- 1958-12-23
- This article describes a suit filed in federal court to protest a Montgomery city ordinance requiring segregated parks and recreation facilities. The eight African Americans, represented by attorney Solomon S. Seay, Jr., ask that the ordinance be...
- 2010-01-25
- "A sketch of the Cherokee disposition towards runing [sic] the boundary line of Georgia thro their country."
- 1826-08-31
- Account written by Richard Blount (while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission) describing the Cherokees' negative reaction to the boundary survey. Blount met with Cherokee representatives to defend the work: "We are sent here...
- 2010-11-08
- "Friendly Creek Indians."
- 1833
- Report submitted to the United States House of Representatives by Dixon Hall Lewis of the Committee on Indian Affairs. The committee requests "relief for certain Creek Indians of mixed blood, within the State of Alabama; and also the petitions of...
- 2010-07-15
- Account of expenses incurred by Charles Lewis while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826
- Lewis was one of two commissioners representing Alabama during the project. Expenses listed here include his payment for serving on the commission and the additional work Governor John Murphy required "in ascertaining the points of difference which...
- 2010-11-17
- Affidavit by George Wallace regarding his refusal to turn over voting records from Barbour and Bullock Counties to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
- 1959-01-26
- Wallace, judge of the Third Judicial Circuit Court, had been ordered to surrender the records by Frank M. Johnson, judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. In his statement Wallace describes a secret, late-night...
- 2010-06-09
- Expense records kept by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826
- Expenses include food, supplies, and pack horses; room and board; ferriage; and labor and services (for example, washing and shoeing horses, or "Cherokee man to show the Cherokee line"). Transcripts are included.
- 2011-10-12
- Journal kept by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-06
- In the journal Blount discusses the landscape; encounters with Cherokee Indians in the area; and problems the surveyors faced during their work. He also includes a list of Cherokee words with their Creek and English equivalents.
- 2011-10-12
- Commission for the officers of the Henry Blues, an independent company in Henry County, Alabama.
- 1861-05-01
- The commission is written on federal stationery; the watermark on the paper says "E. Pluribus Unum."
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from Aileen Ligon to Governor James E. Folsom, and response from William V. Lyerly, Governor Folsom's executive secretary.
- 1950-01-20
- In the first letter Mrs. Ligon offers to sell her house to the state of Alabama, in order for it to become the next governor's mansion. Lyerly acknowledges receipt of her letter. A commission appointed by the state legislature later purchased the...
- 2009-09-15
- 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 E. Wood in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Richard Blount in Lebanon, Georgia.
- 1826-05-30
- The letter requests that the members of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission ("charged with running the dividing line between the States of Georgia and Alabama") meet in Milledgeville the next month. A transcript is included.
- 2010-11-17
- 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 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
- Letter from Governor George M. Troup in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Joel Crawford, Richard Blount, and E. Hamilton of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-08-30
- In the letter Troup discusses the conflict between Georgia and Alabama over the boundary, including the extra commissioner Alabama appointed. He approves the report that Crawford, Blount, and Hamilton submitted; warns that they "will have to...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from J. Crawford to Richard Blount and E. Hamilton at Millers Bend.
- 1826-09-14
- The three men represented Georgia on the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission. In the letter Crawford explains that he has just "borrowed a sufficient sum of money to meet our immediate wants," and he has written the governor to request more funds. He...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from James A. Hall in camp near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to his father, Bolling, in Alabama.
- 1863-07-08
- During the Civil War, James Hall served as a captain in Company K of the 24th Alabama Infantry regiment. In the letter he discusses recent troop movements ("one of the severest marches that I have ever made"); a recent visit with his brothers, who...
- 2011-10-20
- Letter from James A. Hall in Columbus, Kentucky, to his father, Bolling, in Alabama.
- 1862-02-01
- During the Civil War, James Hall served as a captain in Company K of the 24th Alabama Infantry regiment. In the letter he discusses possible changes in command ("There was a report that Beauregard would supersede Polk here...I believe he would be...
- 2011-10-20
- Letter from Richard Blount and E. Hamilton in the "Cherokee Nation," reporting on the work of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-08-02
- In the letter the men explain the causes of the commission's "apparent slothfulness": their "progress has been greatly retarded by frequent recurrences of local attraction" and the trees and uneven landscape have made it "almost impossible to be...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Richard Blount in the "Cherokee Nation 165 miles on our course," to John W. A. Sanford in Milledgeville, Georgia.
- 1826-08-12
- In the letter Blount reports on the progress of the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; although the team is having difficulty finding its next point, his "prospects have brightend" and his "hopes strengthend lately"; the commissioner from Alabama...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Richard Blount to Major Charles Lewis in Bellefonte, Alabama.
- 1826-09-19
- Both men served on the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; Lewis represented Alabama, and Blount represented Georgia. In the letter Blount reports that the commissioners have "clos'd the boundary line." He describes specific points along the line,...
- 2010-11-17