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- Minutes for the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on August 22, 1960.
- 1960 August 22
- During the meeting the Board discussed the federal court hearing that would be held later in the day, during which several of the expelled Alabama State College students would appeal to be readmitted for the fall term. Governor Patterson and...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from Bernard Lee in Montgomery, Alabama, to Governor John Patterson.
- 1960 June 15
- In the message Lee criticizes the dismissal of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick from Alabama State College, and he defends the actions of the demonstrators: "Governor Patterson should not give credit to the Communist for the American ideals which have been...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth in Birmingham, Alabama, to Governor John Patterson in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1960 June 16
- In the message Shuttlesworth protests the dismissal of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick from Alabama State College, and he criticizes the governor's suggestion that Dr. H. Councill Trenholm be removed from his position as president of the school: "To purge...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from Reverend Ralph Abernathy in Montgomery, Alabama, to Governor John Patterson.
- 1960 June 15
- In the message Abernathy criticizes the dismissal of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick from Alabama State College, and he warns that citizens will no longer support the school if such repressive actions continue: "If you are bent upon destroying Alabama...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from members of the Non-Partisan Voters League in Mobile, Alabama, to Governor John Patterson in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1960 June
- In the telegram several members of the organization criticize the dismissal of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick from Alabama State College and ask that his case be given a fair hearing. They also suggest the formation of a biracial conference to examine...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from Kenneth Adams, the Alabama Grand Dragon of the Dixie Klans, Inc., to Governor John Patterson in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1960 June 18
- In the message Adams praises the governor's "manly decision" to dismiss Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick from Alabama State College: "We feel as you do that he was guilty of Communist activities."
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Edwin Strickland, "a disgusted American," to Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
- 1962 October 10
- Strickland would later serve as the staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace. In the letter he criticizes federal intervention during civil rights demonstrations in the South: "...with callous disregard for state...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letters between members of a subcommittee from the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the Methodist Church, and Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1964-1965
- The subcommittee was investigating the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA; the members contacted Strickland because the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace had already produced a report on the Council. In the first...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Senator John H. Hawkins, Jr., chairman of the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, to President Lyndon Johnson in Washington, D.C.
- 1964 December 1
- In the letter Hawkins opposes efforts to have J. Edgar Hoover removed from his post as director of the FBI: "It is, of course, known to you, Mr. President, that the effort to get rid of Mr. Hoover, to cripple the Federal Security program and to...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, to Governor George Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965 March 8
- In the letter Strickland discusses the attempted civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7). Based on information he has received, he reports that "the Negroes did not expect to march and did not want to march from Selma...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Calvin F. Craig, Grand Dragon of Georgia for the United Klans of America, and the response from the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965 April
- In the first letter, dated April 5, 1965, Craig writes Governor George Wallace to ask for photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March and for information about the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace. He mentions that he is...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from David W. Crosland, solicitor for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama in Montgomery, to Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace.
- 1965 April 7
- In the letter Crosland discusses his intention to present to the grand jury a report about the recent civil rights demonstrations in Montgomery County. He asks Strickland for evidence to support the "great many rumors about immoral acts" among the...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Virgil Stuart, chief of police in St. Augustine, Florida, to Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery.
- 1965 August 18
- In the letter Stuart thanks Strickland for sending a report recently produced by the Commission. He also mentions two reports from the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, which he is enclosing.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from nine citizens in Auburn, Alabama, to Governor Wallace in Montgomery.
- 1966 September 21
- In the letter the citizens ask for information about the Alabama Council on Human Relations because a family associated with that organization has recently moved into the neighborhood: "If it has subversive or criminal connections, we want to know....
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letters between Senator Alton L. Turner of Luverne, Alabama, and Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery.
- 1967
- In the first letter, written January 31, 1967, Turner asks for information about the Tuskegee Institute Community Education Program (TICEP). In the second letter, written February 1, 1967, Strickland explains that the educational outreach program...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Memo from Senator John H. Hawkins, Jr., to the office personnel at the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace.
- 1967 April 7
- In the memo Hawkins informs the staff that the information gathered will be confidential because of the "commission's work in the field of subversive activities in the civil rights movements."
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from John P. Thomas, minister at St. Luke Methodist Church in Enterprise, Alabama, to Ed Strickland of the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1968 March 6
- In the letter Thomas describes Bible school literature he recently saw that pictured Martin Luther King, Jr., and compared him with the apostle Paul. Thomas finds the material "repulsive" and asks Strickland if there is any evidence to confirm...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Senator John H. Hawkins, Jr., chairman of the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, to Governor Albert Brewer in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1968 May 13
- In the letter Hawkins describes the Commission's current activities and promises "our complete cooperation and access to our investigative files." He wants to meet with the governor soon for a briefing.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Ruth G. Altman in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Governor Albert Brewer in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1968 September 26
- In the letter Altman refers to an article in the Tuscaloosa News, which described some sort of demonstration at the University of Alabama; though she does not give details about the incident, she accuses the school's faculty and president of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Experimental College: Hexes To Guerrilla Training."
- 1968 September 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...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection