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Alabama Textual Materials Collection
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    • "483 Acres / Chattahooche Land for Sale."

    • "483 Acres / Chattahooche Land for Sale."

    • 1849-10-16

    • Advertisement for the sale of a 483-acre plantation in Henry County, Alabama. Each section of land is described, and several buildings are included ("a good gin house and screw, and a comfortable log cabin...negro houses, corn cribs, stalls, &c.")....

    • 2009-08-24
    • "Ballots, Bullets and Blood."

    • "Ballots, Bullets and Blood."
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    • "How Blacks Have Died for the Right to Vote." Leaflet issued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Inside is a list of African Americans who were killed from 1955 to 1968: Lamar Smith, George W. Lee, Herbert Lee, Medgar...

    • 2009-09-11
    • "Boycott of the Cars."

    • "Boycott of the Cars."

    • 1902-11-11

    • This article reports that African Americans in Mobile are still boycotting street railroads to protest a new segregation ordinance; it also mentions that "several cases of negroes being reviled for riding on the cars have been reported."

    • 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
    • "Friendly Creek Indians."

    • "Friendly Creek Indians."

    • 1833

    • Report submitted to the United States House of Representatives by Dixon Hall Lewis of the Committee on Indian Affairs. The committee requests "relief for certain Creek Indians of mixed blood, within the State of Alabama; and also the petitions of...

    • 2010-07-15
    • "Homes Searched! Stores Searched!"

    • "Homes Searched! Stores Searched!"

    • 1909

    • "White Men Thrown Into Jail With Negro Criminals, Their Baggage Seized and Searched. For What?" Broadside opposing the proposed prohibition amendment to the Alabama constitution; it includes statements from several Alabama citizens whose property...

    • 2010-04-23
    • "Many Issues Fall to Low Levels on Wave of Selling."

    • "Many Issues Fall to Low Levels on Wave of Selling."

    • 1929-10-28

    • This article, written the day before "Black Tuesday," reports that "prices broke wide open" in the stock market during the day: "Many of the leaders sold close to the low levels established in last Thursday's dramatic collapse in prices, and some...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "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
    • "Mobile Takes on Carnival Air as Football Fever Hits City."

    • "Mobile Takes on Carnival Air as Football Fever Hits City."

    • 1948-09-30

    • This article deals with an upcoming football game between the University of Alabama and Vanderbilt University at a new stadium in Mobile. Among the dignitaries who plan to attend are Boykin and several other congressmen. From The Mobile Register.

    • 2009-09-15
    • "Oath Davis Took In '61 Is Repeated."

    • "Oath Davis Took In '61 Is Repeated."

    • 1961-02-19

    • This article describes the Civil War centennial celebration in Montgomery, Alabama, with an emphasis on the reenactment of the inauguration of Jefferson Davis. Several images of the event are included. From The Clarion-Ledger of Jacksonville,...

    • 2009-09-04
    • "Separation of Races."

    • "Separation of Races."

    • 1902-11-04

    • This article reports the reactions of both African American and white citizens to the new ordinance requiring segregation on Montgomery street cars: "As a rule no trouble was experienced and the only thing noticeable was the absence of negroes from...

    • 2010-01-25
    • "They're After Wallace."

    • "They're After Wallace."

    • 1970-04-13

    • Article from The Dothan Eagle, which quotes several newspaper columns to "substantiate what Governor George Wallace has been saying all along--that outside money, pressures and influences are being used within Alabama to defeat him, that the...

    • 2010-11-08

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