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- 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
- 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
- Letter from Senator John H. Hawkins, Jr., chairman of the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, to President Lyndon Johnson in Washington, D.C.
- 1964-12-01
- In the letter Hawkins opposes efforts to have J. Edgar Hoover removed from his post as director of the FBI: "It is, of course, known to you, Mr. President, that the effort to get rid of Mr. Hoover, to cripple the Federal Security program and to...
- 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 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 Senator John H. Hawkins, Jr., chairman of the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, to Governor Albert Brewer in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1968-05-13
- 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.
- 2010-01-28
- Excerpts from THE DIARY OF A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER by John Washington Inzer, edited by Mattie Lou Teague Crow.
- 1977-00-00
- During the Civil War Inzer served as a lieutenant colonel in the 58th Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. In the passages he describes fighting in the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was captured; the poor treatment and...
- 2009-06-25
- 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