The Commissioners of Claims, also known as the Southern Claims Commission, was created to address claims for personal property loss made by citizens in Southern states after the Civil War. This option was only available to those who had remained...
At the start of the Civil War, Dent was a 1st lieutenant of the Eufaula Rifles, which became Company B of the 1st Alabama Infantry; he was eventually promoted to captain and commanded Dent's Battery (formerly Robertson's Battery). In the letter...
The Alabama Commission had asked President and Mrs. Roosevelt to attend the dedication of the Alabama Mineral Exhibit and Vulcan statue in the Mines Palace at the World's Fair. The letter regretfully declines the invitation.
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...
The Macon County Committee was created to study the possibility of abolishing the county or redrawing its boundary. The report discusses the public hearings held during the Committee's investigation and specifically describes the presentation of C....
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...
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...
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...
The subcommittee was investigating the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA; the members contacted Strickland because the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace had already produced a report on the Council. In the first...
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...
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.
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."
In the letter Hawkins describes the Commission's current activities and promises "our complete cooperation and access to our investigative files." He wants to meet with the governor soon for a briefing.
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...