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- 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
- Letter from Carleton S. Lentz in Anniston, Alabama, to Judge George Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1962-11-17
- In the letter Lentz expresses her support for Wallace but questions his "extreme stand on the segregation issue." She asks him to adopt a moderate, peaceful approach during his term: "I am writing to implore you to break your campaign promise,...
- 2011-01-13
- Report submitted by Dr. H. Councill Trenholm, president of Alabama State College, at a meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education.
- 1960-07-20
- The Board had requested this report at its meeting on June 14, 1960. In it Trenholm discusses recent civil rights demonstrations led by students and faculty at the college, and he assures the Board that the situation is improving: "While there have...
- 2010-01-28
- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on March 25, 1960.
- 1960-03-25
- During the meeting the Board discussed recent activity at Alabama State College, where students had been involved in civil rights demonstrations; the police commissioner of Montgomery had recommended that the entire school be shut down. Governor...
- 2010-01-25
- Letter from George F. Lieb in Wenatchee, Washington, to Judge Eugene W. Carter in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1956-03-24
- In the letter Lieb criticizes Carter's recent conviction of Martin Luther King, Jr., in connection with the Montgomery bus boycott. He denounces civil rights injustices in the South and compares the region to communist Russia. Though Lieb professes...
- 2009-09-04
- 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
- Letter from Harry D. Pitchford in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, to Governor Benjamin Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1932-09-21
- In the letter Pitchford mentions a plan he has developed to assist the unemployed during the winter. He has enclosed a copy of this proposal, which suggests that voters donate articles of food and clothing when they go to the polls for the November...
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from Cornelia Bibb Vaughan in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Governor William Hugh Smith.
- 1870-04-20
- In the letter Mrs. Vaughan explains that her husband, Vernon Henry Vaughan, has been arrested for being a "defiant Republican." The Ku Klux Klan has threatened their entire family, and they are no longer safe in the city: "They put him in jail...
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from Alex K. Hall in camp at Dalton, Georgia, to his brother, Charlie, at a boarding school in Coosa County, Alabama.
- 1864-03-23
- During the Civil War, Alex served in the 2nd and 3rd Alabama Cavalry. In the letter he describes a recent snowball fight: "There was many a battle fought yesterday, among the soldiers, with snowballs. About nine (9) oclock Capt Drew, of Co 'A,'...
- 2011-07-06
- Telegram from Bolling Hall, Jr., in Atlanta, Georgia, to his father in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1863-11-28
- From November 25, 1863, through the end of the Civil War, Bolling Hall, Jr., was colonel of the 59th Alabama Infantry regiment.In the message he reports that his brother, James, has probably been killed in battle: "Information we consider reliable...
- 2011-10-20
- Letters from William C. Williams in Richmond, Virginia, to Bolling Hall in Alabama.
- 1863-10
- During the Civil War, Williams served as the chaplain for the 24th Alabama Infantry regiment. In the letters, he offers condolences after Hall's son Tom died from wounds sustained at the Battle of Chickamauga. Williams was with Tom just before he...
- 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
- Excerpt from LETTERS FROM ALABAMA, (U.S.) CHIEFLY RELATING TO NATURAL HISTORY by Philip Henry Gosse, an English naturalist.
- 1859-00-00
- This passage includes a letter written by Gosse, on September 1, 1838. He discusses slavery in Alabama ("a huge deadly serpent"), describing cruel punishments, poor living conditions, and impediments to emancipation. In his view, the institution...
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Major General Thomas S. Jesup in Tampa Bay, Florida.
- 1837-03-30
- In the letter Clay discusses the recent Creek War in Alabama and describes current efforts to permanently remove Indians from the state. (Clay believed that "nothing would restore safety and tranquility, to the inhabitants, but the entire removal...
- 2010-11-12
- 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
- Letter from Ferdinand L. Claiborne at a "Soldiers Retreat," to Colonel James Caller in Washington County of the Mississippi Territory.
- 1812-06-23
- In the letter Claiborne discusses recent attacks by Indians on white inhabitants in the territory: "The conduct of your Creek neighbours for some time past has been observed, and merit, in my opinion, exemplary punishment, and had I the power, they...
- 2009-11-20
- Receipt for payment made by John Coffee to the Cotton Port Company.
- Coffee signed over "one entire share fo the stock of the Cotton Port land company" to be applied toward his debt for recent property purchases.
- 2010-06-09