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- Federal examiners registering voters in Madison County, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
- 1966 June
- Maps of the county are on the front table and back wall. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Federal examiners registering voters in Madison County, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
- 1966 June
- Maps of the county are on the front table and back wall. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Federal examiners registering voters in Madison County, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
- 1966 June
- Maps of the county are on the front table and back wall. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Federal examiners registering voters in Madison County, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
- 1966 June
- Maps of the county are on the front table and back wall. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Race Separation."
- 1900 August 11
- This article cites a newspaper from Washington, D.C., which predicts that segregationist sentiment in the nation's capital will lead to "Jim Crow" street cars there: "What is true in Washington is true elsewhere, and especially in the South. The...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Race Separation in the Street Cars."
- 1902 November 5
- This article compares street car ordinances in Mobile and New Orleans: "Of the two the Mobile law seems to be the best, for it does not require the making of separate compartments in the cars, but simply that white passengers shall be seated in the...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Pensacola's Street Car Boycott by Negroes."
- 1905 May 17
- This article reports that African Americans in Pensacola, Florida, are boycotting street railroads to protest a proposed segregation ordinance. The article argues that while this response is common in cities with similar laws, the boycotts are...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- ''The 'Jim Crow' Car."
- 1896 May 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...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Negroes Riot in Gadsden to Protest Doom."
- 1931 April 10
- This article discusses the rioting in the Etowah County jail by eight of the "Scottsboro Boys," who had been convicted and given the death penalty: "When finally quieted and asked what was the matter, one of the negroes replied, 'We just don't like...
- 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
- 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 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
- "Heed Their Rising Voices."
- 1960 March 29
- Copy of an advertisement published in The New York Times by the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in the South. The ad describes nonviolent civil rights demonstrations across the South, specifically mentioning a...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from Governor John Patterson to Mayor Fred Wilson in Monroe, North Carolina.
- 1961 August 28
- In the message Patterson discusses the Freedom Riders who recently entered Monroe, expressing support and sympathy: "I wish to commend you for your strong stand for good law enforcement and the position that you have taken against the so-called...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Governor Ross Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi, to Governor John Patterson in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1961 August 30
- In the letter Barnett thanks Patterson for sending copies of telegrams regarding the Freedom Riders in North Carolina: "It is needless for me to say that I stand ready to cooperate with you and others in any way that I can. You have but to call on...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from Governor John Patterson to Governor Terry Sanford in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- 1961 August 28
- In the message Patterson discusses the Freedom Riders who have entered North Carolina, expressing support and sympathy: "I wish to advise you that the people of this state view with alarm the invasion of your state by outside rabble rousers and law...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from Governor John Patterson to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in Washington, D.C.
- 1961 August 28
- In the message Patterson discusses the Freedom Riders who recently entered Monroe, North Carolina. He criticizes Kennedy's "encouragement of these lawless groups" and asks him to change his position: "Once again, I call on you to take a public...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- T. Y. Rogers at a civil rights demonstration in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1971 March 18
- Demonstrators are protesting unequal educational and political opportunities. The woman behind him is holding a sign that reads, "Quality Education Is Equal and Fair Treatment of All Students."
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Participants in a civil rights demonstration on a sidewalk in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1971 March 18
- Demonstrators are protesting unequal educational and political opportunities. They are carrying signs that read "We Declare War Against Repression"; "Dr. Hall, Where Are the 301 White Students Who Were Zoned into Westfield High"; and "Westfield...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Participants in a civil rights demonstration on a sidewalk in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1971 March 18
- Demonstrators are protesting unequal educational and political opportunities. One man is carrying a sign that reads, "Dr. Hall, Where Are the 301 White Students Who Were Zoned into Westfield High."
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection