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- "Court's march order ends at Capitol."
- 1965-03-24
- This article from the Birmingham News discusses the extent of the order issued by U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson, which permitted and protected the Selma to Montgomery March: "The order.stops short of approving plans for a demonstration on...
- 2011-01-13
- Certificate of judgment issued by the circuit court of Montgomery County in the case of L. B. Sullivan vs. The New York Times Co., Ralph D. Abernathy, Fred L. Shuttlesworth, S. S. Seay, Sr., and J. E. Lowery.
- 1960-11-03
- Sullivan, police commissioner of Montgomery, Alabama, had filed the libel suit against The New York Times in response to an advertisement published in the paper, soliciting funds for the legal defense of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Montgomery...
- 2010-07-27
- "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
- Brief and argument by Attorney General John Patterson in response to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court.
- 1956-08-10
- King had been convicted on March 22 for his leadership in the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 2009-09-04
- What Did the Supreme Court Actually Rule?
- 1956-04-26
- Article from the Montgomery Advertiser.
- 2009-09-15
- "Holcombe, Boykin Win Appeal; Court Rules Indictment Defective."
- 1926-00-00
- This article announces the reversal of a 1925 indictment against Boykin, when he was charged with bribery of a federal agent during a Prohibition scandal in Mobile.
- 2009-09-15
- Two pages from a convict register, listing six African American men who were tried in the city court of Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1909-08-07
- The register pages include spaces for physical descriptions, trial details, and prison experience (not all details are given for each convict). The men listed here were sentenced for the following crimes: James Dicks, grand larceny, two years;...
- 2010-04-23
- Letter from the court of county commissioners in Pike County, Alabama, to Governor Robert Miller Patton.
- 1867-03-05
- In the letter the men ask the governor to assist the poor families in the county, many of whom are near starvation. They explain that some provisions are available for them in Montgomery, but they cannot afford to transport it.
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from G. R. Talley in camp at Orange Court House in Virginia, to his wife.
- 1863-09-06
- During the Civil War, Talley served in the 6th Alabama Infantry regiment.
- 2011-11-16
- Letter from Bob near Orange Court House in Virginia, to his sister.
- 1863-08-28
- 2011-11-16
- Pages from a subpoena docket of the Perry County circuit court.
- 1863
- Included on the pages are drawings and notes, probably made by Anderson Cain, the court clerk.
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from M. H. Sanborn at Culpeper Court House, Virginia, to Juliet Opie Hopkins, superintendent of the Alabama Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1861-08-26
- In the letter Sanborn describes staffing, patients, illnesses, and conditions at the local military hospital. He mentions that several Alabamians are being treated there and observes that the facility is well-stocked but "badly managed": "It is not...
- 2010-12-07
- Letter from Judge Richard Ellis of the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama, to Governor Israel Pickens in Greene County, Alabama.
- 1822-04-00
- In the letter Ellis discusses the case of Adam Lowry, who was tried and convicted twice, first for stealing a hog and then for stealing a horse. After the second offense Lowry's right hand was branded with the letter "T" and he was put in jail. The...
- 2010-12-07
- Receipt for court records and license fees received from Bolling Hall, count clerk in Autauga County, Alabama.
- 1820-01-04
- 2012-01-27
- Officer's bond given by Bolling Hall upon his commission "as clerk of the Superior court of law and equity for the said county of Autauga."
- 1819-02-24
- Hall is bound to "duly and faithfully execute the duties of said office and shall not remove or suffer to be removed or carried out of the county the record and papers of said court whereof he is clerk or any part thereof except in cases allowed by...
- 2012-01-27
- Certificate issued by Governor William Wyatt Bibb, appointing Bolling Hall clerk of the superior court of Autauga County in the Alabama Territory.
- 1819-02-15
- The seal of the Alabama Executive office (lower left corner of the document) is extremely detailed, showing rivers (and their names), borders, and buildings (possibly courthouses). An enhanced, enlarged version of the seal is included here.
- 2012-01-27
- Writ of diminution issued to the court of Washington County in the Mississippi Territory (later Alabama), regarding the case between Edwin Lewis and Peter Cartwright.
- 1808-10-31
- Lewis, the plaintiff, had complained about the outcome of the trial: "...suggesting to us that manifest Error had intervened in the record and process, and also in the giving of Judgment of the plea which was before you by our Writ between the said...
- 2010-11-12