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- Report describing a blackout held on December 2 in Birmingham, Alabama, which "as a whole was very unsatisfactory."
- 1942-12-02
- The report states that "About 75% of the entire city area under observation was lighted at the time the airplanes flew over the central section of the city."
- 2011-01-13
- "VE (Victory in Europe) Plan for Jefferson County, Alabama."
- 1944
- Plan developed by a committee called together by Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor "for the purpose of considering ways and means of coordinating plans for the proper observance of VE Day"; the theme of the celebration will be "Every Citizen at...
- 2011-01-13
- Letter from Bertha Wallis in Atlanta, Georgia, to Governor Jim Folsom in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1957-08-14
- In the letter Wallis, a field worker for the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, criticizes the recent activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and encourages the governor to intervene: "Alabama is getting black marks that I...
- 2009-09-04
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to Congressmen John Bell Williams and Kenneth Roberts.
- 1962-05-00
- In the message Wallace refers to the May 13 episode of "The Huntley-Brinkley Report," which discussed the civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama. He asks Williams and Roberts to have their congressional committee investigate the program...
- 2010-04-23
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C.
- 1962-05-00
- In the message Wallace protests the dispatch of federal forces to Birmingham, which he insists are now "on duty" although the president has "publicly indicated that federal troops were only on a standby basis at military installations near...
- 2010-04-23
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C.
- 1962-05-12
- In the message Wallace asks the president why he plans to send federal troops to handle the violent situation in Birmingham. He insists that local government officials and state troops have the matter under control, and he suggests that federal...
- 2010-04-23
- "Documents on Human Rights in Alabama," compiled by the Inner-Citizens Committee, Inc., in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1963-04-00
- Testimonies and images of five men who were victims of police violence during civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham.
- 2011-01-13
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to Chet Huntley and David Brinkley of NBC.
- 1963-05-00
- In the message Wallace refers to the May 13 episode of "The Huntley-Brinkley Report," which discussed the civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama: "Your coverage of the situation...amounted to a series of deliberate, unmitigated lies....
- 2010-04-23
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to the members of the Alabama congressional delegation in Washington, D.C.
- 1963-05-12
- In the message Wallace discusses the federal troops that President Kennedy has just sent to handle the violent situation in Birmingham, Alabama. He insists that the local authorities have the matter under control, and he asks the congressmen to...
- 2010-04-23
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to the members of the Alabama congressional delegation in Washington, D.C.
- 1963-05-13
- In the message Wallace gives a brief overview of the civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, blaming "outside agitators" for the "internal strife and turmoil": "In my best judgment subversive elements have been at work in that city and...
- 2010-04-23
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C.
- 1963-05-13
- In the message Wallace maintains that the president's dispatch of federal troops to Birmingham, Alabama, was unconstitutional. He insists that local government officials and state troops "are able and have not failed or refused to suppress domestic...
- 2010-04-23
- Telegram from President John F. Kennedy to Governor George C. Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1963-05-13
- In the message Kennedy cites a section of the United States Code that allows the president to intervene in situations of domestic violence when state officials have not adequately protected their citizens. He assures Wallace that no final decisions...
- 2010-04-23
- Statement made by Governor George C. Wallace after President Kennedy sent federal troops to handle the violent situation in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1963-05-13
- In the statement Wallace discusses a group of white citizens who have been trying to negotiate an end to the civil rights demonstration: "Since the President's action has been based upon the actions of these secret negotiators, we must have a full...
- 2010-04-23
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C.
- 1963-05-13
- In the message Wallace requests that the president withdraw federal troops from military bases near Birmingham, Alabama, where they are on standby. He blames Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights demonstrators for the violence in the city,...
- 2010-04-23
- Rough draft and final edition of a statement made by Governor George C. Wallace after President Kennedy sent federal troops to handle the violent situation in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1963-05-15
- In the statement Wallace announces that the state intends to file a federal lawsuit to determine if the president's actions have been unconstitutional: "The great men who wrote the Constitution did not intend for the President to have any such...
- 2010-04-23
- Report on the activities of Reverend Louis Mitchell, a white episcopal minister in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1964-06-25
- The report is directed to Virgil Stuart, chief of police in St. Augustine, Florida. It describes Mitchell's work to promote integration in Birmingham and warns that he has recently left the city to take a position with the Southern Regional Council...
- 2009-09-04
- The White American, "official organ of the American States' Rights Party."
- 1964-10
- 2012-01-27
- Excerpts from VOICES FROM ALABAMA: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MOSAIC.
- 1993-00-00
- In the first passage C. E. Bracknell describes the living conditions and company school at Gobbler's Knob, a village for steelworkers in Jefferson County. The second passage includes accounts by E. L. Lovelady and C. E. Bracknell. Lovelady, who...
- 2009-06-25