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- 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
- 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 Samuel Strudwick in Arcola, Alabama, to his daughters Martha ("Pattie") Sledge and Mary Holmes in California.
- 1872 May 31
- In the letter Strudwick discusses family members and acquaintances; expresses remorse for encouraging some of his relatives to move to California; and complains about the improved status of African Americans (whom he refers to collectively as...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Speech by O. B. Porterfield, minister at the Cleveland Avenue Church of Christ in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965 March 24
- This speech was originally broadcast on a local television station during the last days of the Selma to Montgomery March. In it, Porterfield denounces the demonstration, especially the "so-called preachers" who are participating. He argues that "it...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Bertha Wallis in Atlanta, Georgia, to Governor Jim Folsom in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1957 August 14
- In the letter Wallis, a field worker for the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, criticizes the recent activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and encourages the governor to intervene: "Alabama is getting black marks that I...
- 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 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 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
- Letters between Walton H. Craft in Mobile, Alabama, and Governor Chauncey Sparks in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1944 September
- In the first letter, written September 6, 1944, Craft complains about African American passengers on city buses in Mobile: "A condition has been in effect here in Mobile since the War began...of some of the drivers of the City Lines allowing the...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from U. J. Robinson, general secretary of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, to Governor Chauncey Sparks, and the response from the governor's secretary.
- 1944 September
- In the first letter, written September 15, 1944, Robinson comments on growing racial tension in the state and suggests that the governor call a biracial meeting to discuss the best way to deal with the situation: "I find there is a growing...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Albert J. Lingo in Birmingham, Alabama, to Bill Jones, press secretary for Governor George Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965 October 15
- Lingo served as director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety from 1963 to 1965. In the letter he discusses the book Jones is writing about the governor, which blames Lingo for the violence that occurred in Selma on March 7: "You know as well...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Inaugural address of Governor George Wallace, which was delivered at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1963 January 14
- In the speech Wallace makes his famous statement against integration: "Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Affidavit by George Wallace regarding his refusal to turn over voting records from Barbour and Bullock Counties to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
- 1959 January 26
- Wallace, judge of the Third Judicial Circuit Court, had been ordered to surrender the records by Frank M. Johnson, judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. In his statement Wallace describes a secret, late-night...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Court's march order ends at Capitol."
- 1965 March 24
- This article from the Birmingham News discusses the extent of the order issued by U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson, which permitted and protected the Selma to Montgomery March: "The order.stops short of approving plans for a demonstration on...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Wet Marchers Pass Halfway Point."
- 1965 March 23
- This article from the Alabama Journal discusses the progress of the Selma to Montgomery March, describing conditions of the road and campsites; distances walked each day; protection provided by the National Guard; the leaders of the demonstration;...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Resolution from a joint session of the Alabama legislature, passed in response to the Selma-Montgomery March.
- 1965 March 19
- The resolution asks "every loyal citizen of the State, of every race, color, creed or persuasion, to stay at home or at his regular place of business--as far removed from the line of march and demonstrations as is possible--until the risk of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Selma's 'bloody Sunday' recalled after 10 years."
- 1975 March 2
- This article from the Mobile Press-Register recounts the events of "Bloody Sunday," which some citizens "claim.hastened the passage of the voting rights act by Congress" in 1965. It then examines current conditions for African Americans in the...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in Washington, D.C., to Governor George C. Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1965 April 27
- In the letter Katzenbach discusses reports of racial discrimination in state parks and liquor stores in Alabama: "Under Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I have a responsibility to see that such segregation practices by the State of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection