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- "Eight Alabama Soldiers Gain Highest Award."
- 1948 December 19
- Article from The Montgomery Advertiser about the eight Alabamians who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor: from the Civil War, Richard Taylor; from the Philippine Insurrection, Gordon Johnston; from World War I, Sidney E. Manning; from...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Transcript of a public meeting held by the Montgomery County Citizens' Council at Garrett Coliseum.
- 1961 June 8
- The meeting was led by Don Hallmark and featured the following speakers: Montgomery Mayor Earl James, Dr. Henry Lyon of Highland Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery Citizens' Council Chairman Carl Herbert Lancaster, and Alabama Attorney General...
- 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
- "Alabamians Assail Ad Backing Dr. King."
- 1960 April 8
- Article from The New York Times that discusses reaction to an advertisement published by the paper, requesting funds for the legal defense of Martin Luther King, Jr. Alabamians are indignant about claims the ad made against state officials and...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "They're After Wallace."
- 1970 April 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...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Joe Reed Says Negro Vote Will Decide Winner of Every Alabama State Office."
- 1970 April 25
- Article from the Alabama Journal, reporting on the recent gathering of the Alabama Democratic Conference (an African American political organization). The group met to decide which candidates to endorse in the upcoming election. The article quotes...
- 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
- "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
- "Negro voter may cast deciding ballot Tuesday."
- 1966 November 6
- This article from the Birmingham News discusses the role of African American voters in Alabama's upcoming gubernatorial election. It examines the factors that will influence the "power of the Negro vote" in the three-way contest, including voter...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Voter lists up by 31% after federal drive."
- 1966 October 2
- This article from the Birmingham News discusses the increase in the number of registered voters in Alabama following the Voting Rights Act of 1965: "It was an over-all gain of more than 31 per cent which affected the voter totals of virtually all...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Osceola's Skull May Have Burned In Paris Fire.
- 1951 February 5
- This article from the Spartanburg Journal discusses the argument between South Carolina and Florida over the proper burial place for Chief Osceola's remains. It mentions that his skull was stolen from the grave and was once in the possession of Dr....
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "S.C., Fla. Argue Over Bones Of Indian Chief."
- 1951
- This article discusses the argument between the states "over the final resting place of Seminole chief Osceola." Osceola died in prison in South Carolina, where he was buried, but representatives of Florida want his remains to be returned to their...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Packet of materials submitted to Governor Joseph F. Johnston, to request the pardon of Cudjo Lewis, who was convicted of manslaughter.
- 1900 July - August
- Lewis's father (also Cudjo) was the last surviving ex-slave from "Clotilda, " the last known ship to bring slaves to the United States; the ship landed in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860. The packet includes a statement of sentence, letters from other...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Henderson M. Somerville of the Board of U.S. General Appraisers in New York, to former Senator James L. Pugh in Washington, D.C.
- 1903 October 10
- In the letter Somerville discusses a rumor that he will be dismissed from his position on the appraisal board. While his alleged offense involves a dispute with Secretary Shaw of the U.S. Treasury, he believes that "The real pretext for such...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Public library reports, Covington County.
- 1942 circa
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Federal Writers' Project of Alabama, Life Histories/Stories, Escambia County #6.
- 1939-1940 circa
- Folder contains 121 pages of ex-slave life histories and stories compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection