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    • ''The 'Jim Crow' Car."

    • ''The 'Jim Crow' Car."

    • 1896-05-19

    • This article discusses the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Plessy versus Ferguson, which upheld a Louisiana law that required separate railroad cars for white and African American passengers; the court considered this...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "A Negro New Jerusalem."

    • "A Negro New Jerusalem."

    • 1902-11-08

    • This article criticizes an "immigration scheme" designed to attract African American citizens to a city in the midwestern United States, where "everything will be in the hands of the negro" (including city management, industry, and education). The...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "Alabama Mills Closed 100 P. C. Is Union Claim."

    • "Alabama Mills Closed 100 P. C. Is Union Claim."

    • 1934-07-17

    • "25,000 Workers Walk Out From Their Jobs / No Disorders Marked Opening of Strike / Six Points Contained in Demands Of Workers For Ending Shut-Down." This article discusses the statewide textile strike by members of the United Textile Workers of...

    • 2010-07-27
    • "Bell Rings and Roar of Stock Market Subsides."

    • "Bell Rings and Roar of Stock Market Subsides."

    • 1929-10-25

    • This article describes reaction to "Black Thursday," October 24, 1929; according to the author, the atmosphere of the stock exchange was mostly calm and businesslike while the public on the street was in a frenzy: "Looking down from the meager...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "Cars Not Boycotted."

    • "Cars Not Boycotted."

    • 1900-08-16

    • This article describes the response of African American citizens to the ordinance recently passed by the Montgomery city council, which requires segregation on street cars. Although there is "no organized boycott," most African American preachers...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "Civil Rights in Alabama."

    • "Civil Rights in Alabama."

    • 1874

    • In this message to the United States House of Representatives, President Ulysses S. Grant presents a statement he received from a group of African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, who had assembled to discuss the "grave and menacing dangers that...

    • 2010-07-15
    • "Commission from the State of Alabama."

    • "Commission from the State of Alabama."

    • 1861-01-09

    • Letter from L. W. Garrott and Robert H. Smith of Alabama, to the governor and legislature of North Carolina. Garrott and Smith explain that because of the recent election of a Republican president, the governor of Alabama has called for a...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "Conditions Good, Says President."

    • "Conditions Good, Says President."

    • 1929-10-26

    • This article reports that the nation's financial condition is sound despite the stock market crash on October 24 ("Black Thursday"): "The fundamental business of the country is on a sound and profitable basis, President Hoover asserted Friday, in a...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "Crash May Liven Business."

    • "Crash May Liven Business."

    • 1929-10-30

    • "Many Branches Of Trade To Be Benefited, View Of Fiscal Officials." This article suggests that the recent stock market crash will benefit many businesses because of resulting "easy money rates, accompanied by a rejuvenated bond market and a...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "Efforts Being Made to Break Textile Tie-Up."

    • "Efforts Being Made to Break Textile Tie-Up."

    • 1934-09-17

    • This article discusses the progress of the nationwide textile strike. While several states have called up state troops to open picketed mills, the government in Alabama has not interfered with the strike: "These disturbances were in sharp contrast...

    • 2010-07-27
    • "Emigration to California."

    • "Emigration to California."

    • 1849-03-23

    • Brief notice about western settlement: "The tide of emigration to California knows no abatement. Ship load after ship load leaves our shores. We rejoice to know that citizens of good character constitute so large a portion of the emigrants."

    • 2009-08-24
    • "Experimental College: Hexes To Guerrilla Training."

    • "Experimental College: Hexes To Guerrilla Training."

    • 1968-09-25

    • This article discusses the opening of the New Alabama Experimental College in Tuscaloosa. The school "gives no tests, no lectures and no credit" but rather "exists to offer the student the chance to explore issues, questions and topics which he...

    • 2010-04-23
    • "Flying Squadrons Closing Down Mills."

    • "Flying Squadrons Closing Down Mills."

    • 1934-09-07

    • This article discusses the involvement of transient union members in Southern mills during the nationwide textile strike: "Flying squadrons are closing down mills in the south and east when there is a small minority of union operatives in any plant...

    • 2010-07-27
    • "Glory Enough for One Day."

    • "Glory Enough for One Day."

    • 1861-04-17

    • This article describes reaction to the surrender of Fort Sumter to Confederate forces: "The people were pleased to know that Major Anderson had been compelled to haul down the stars and stripes of the Abolition government, and that in their place...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "Law Abiding Democrats to the Front!"

    • "Law Abiding Democrats to the Front!"

    • 1877

    • Leaflet addressed to Democrats in Dallas County, Alabama, urging them to vote for the "good and true men" of the party, who will not resort to illegal methods to gain political power: "They will tell you, that when bad men are elected to office,...

    • 2009-06-25
    • "Mill Whistles Sound, Workers Back on Jobs."

    • "Mill Whistles Sound, Workers Back on Jobs."

    • 1934-09-26

    • This article discusses the resumption of activity in several of Huntsville's cotton mills after the unsuccessful nationwide textile strike (which began as a statewide strike): "No discriminations of any kind were reported today as the textile...

    • 2010-07-27

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