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- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on June 14, 1960.
- 1960-06-14
- During the meeting the Board examined a report prepared by the Department of Public Safety on Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, a professor at Alabama State College who had led students in a civil rights demonstration in March. Governor Patterson...
- 2010-01-28
- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on March 2, 1960.
- 1960-03-02
- During the meeting the Board discussed a recent demonstration at the segregated Court House Restaurant in downtown Montgomery, which was led by students from Alabama State College. Dr. H. Councill Trenholm, president of the school, appeared before...
- 2010-01-25
- Letter from Winifred Drew Widener in Freeport, New York, to Judge Eugene W. Carter in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1956-02-25
- In the letter Widener expresses her support for Judge Carter and the segregationist cause in the South. Also included are two newsletters from the "Committee of 100," a volunteer organization formed to raise money for the NAACP Legal Defense and...
- 2009-09-04
- "Negroes Riot in Gadsden to Protest Doom."
- 1931-04-10
- This article discusses the rioting in the Etowah County jail by eight of the "Scottsboro Boys," who had been convicted and given the death penalty: "When finally quieted and asked what was the matter, one of the negroes replied, 'We just don't like...
- 2010-07-27
- Letter from H. H. Snell, president of the Men's League for Woman's Suffrage in Birmingham, Alabama, to Congressman W. W. Morris in the Alabama House of Representatives in Montgomery.
- 1915-07-12
- In the letter Snell asks why the state legislature will not allow the people to vote on the proposed suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution: "The Legislature is not asked to grant suffrage to women, but is merely requested to permit...
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from the White House in Washington, D.C., to Frederick M. Jackson, president for the Alabama Commission of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
- 1904
- 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.
- 2011-09-22
- "Separation Law Ignored."
- 1902-12-02
- This article reports that the city ordinance segregating street cars is still in force, despite a local company's decision to ignore it. The head of the Mobile Light and Railroad Company adopted this policy because of uncooperative passengers and...
- 2010-01-25
- Letter from Alex K. Hall in camp five miles west of Marietta, Georgia, to his brother, Charlie, at a boarding school in Coosa County, Alabama.
- 1864-06-09
- During the Civil War, Alex served in the 2nd and 3rd Alabama Cavalry. In the letter he discusses news of family and mutual acquaintances; Charlie's plans to join the military; fighting in the area; and upcoming troop movements. He also includes the...
- 2011-07-06
- Letter from James A. Hall in Dalton, Georgia, to his father, Bolling, in Alabama.
- 1864-02-18
- During the Civil War, James Hall served as a captain in Company K of the 24th Alabama Infantry regiment. In the letter he discusses a furloughed soldier whom he has asked his father to help; a knapsack he is sending home, which belonged to a fallen...
- 2011-10-20
- Letter from James A. Hall near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to his father, Bolling, in Alabama.
- 1863-08-15
- During the Civil War, James Hall served as a captain in Company K of the 24th Alabama Infantry regiment. In this letter he discusses a tent he had asked his father to send; his plans to find a position for his younger brother ("I would dislike very...
- 2011-10-20
- Letter from Thomas Warrick in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to his wife, Martha.
- 1863-07-26
- During the war, Warrick served in the Coosa Home Guards, and he was a private in Company C of the 34th Alabama Infantry. In the letter Warrick discourages his wife from visiting the camp because of the difficult living conditions: "I want to see...
- 2009-12-03
- Letter from James R. Riggs at Camp Pettus near Mobile, Alabama, to his sister, Martha Smith.
- 1862-07-12
- During the Civil War, Riggs served in Company G of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. In the letter he recounts a recent visit with his father, and he discusses the sickness and death he has witnessed during the war: "Dear Sister it is...
- 2010-06-09
- Letter from Robert Josselyn in Richmond, Virginia, to Governor John Gill Shorter in Alabama.
- 1861-12-24
- Josselyn writes on behalf of President Jefferson Davis, acknowledging receipt of Governor Shorter's recent letter. Shorter had asked that Dr. S. W. Dent be considered for appointment as an army surgeon; his request has been forwarded to the...
- 2011-04-04
- Letter from T. L. Faulkner in Columbus, Kentucky, to Bolling Hall in Alabama.
- 1861-11-20
- In the letter Faulkner discusses money to be collected from soldiers, which will be sent to a committee of the soldiers' aid society for Autauga County, Alabama, for the purchase of new uniforms. The men had originally agreed to send a certain...
- 2011-10-20
- "The War Begun."
- 1861-04-17
- This article offers a defense of Southern secession and blames the Lincoln and the North for starting the war: "We have asked but our rights. We simply desired to be left alone, to conduct our own government free from abolition meddlesomeness....
- 2010-01-25
- Letters from Littleton W. Tazewell in Norfolk, Virginia, to Henry Semple and others in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1848-06-29
- After the nomination of Lewis Cass as the Democratic candidate for president in 1848, a committee of men from Alabama asked Tazewell to run against him. In the first letter, Tazewell declines the invitation, though he also disagrees with the...
- 2011-05-24
- "Losses--Late War with Creek Indians, Alabama."
- 1838
- Report issued by the Committee of Claims of the United States House of Representatives, in response to a request made by the Alabama legislature after the recent Creek War: "...many of the citizens of Alabama...have been subjected to great...
- 2010-07-15
- Letter from John Coffee in Florence, Alabama, to Colonel John McKinley.
- 1830-12-01
- In the letter Coffee makes a formal statement about a recent interview he had with Governor Gabriel Moore, regarding the conflict between Moore and McKinley. Coffee told Moore that McKinley had, as promised, supported Moore's nephew for the post of...
- 2010-06-09
- Letters from John H. Lewis to John Coffee.
- 1830-07-11
- In the first letter, written July 11, 1830, Lewis discusses the conflict between Governor Gabriel Moore and Colonel John McKinley. McKinley allegedly did not support Moore's nephew for the post of U.S. marshal, and Lewis predicts that "this...
- 2010-06-09
- Statement issued by Governor Israel Pickens, granting parole to Adam Lowry of Morgan County, Alabama, who was convicted of hog and horse stealing.
- 1822-05-12
- Citizens of the county had asked the governor to excuse Lowry from the remaining part of his punishment: "That he is poor, appears penitent - and that...so far as example or reformation may be considered the objects of punishment, these have...had...
- 2010-12-07