"'Tumble In' Youth Center at Decatur, Alabama, decorated for St. Patrick's formal dance. The center is sponsored jointly by the Decatur Recreation Commission and St. Johns Episcopal Church. Opening December with 75 boys and girls it now boasts 236...
Account written by Richard Blount (while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission) describing the Cherokees' negative reaction to the boundary survey. Blount met with Cherokee representatives to defend the work: "We are sent here...
This article gives details about the arrest of the "Scottsboro Boys" and their alleged assault of Ruby Bates and Victoria Price ("one of the most brutal attacks in the history of the Tennessee Valley").
"Here Are Some Members of the Calhoun County Club Gathering Their Product. Remarkable Records Have Been Made by Some of the Clubs in Canning Tomatoes." From the rotogravure section of the Birmingham Age-Herald, Sunday, September 26, 1915.
"Threats of a wholesale lynching of nine young negroes charged with criminally attacking two white girls were calmed when the Alabama national guard was called out to guard the jail at Scottsboro. The girls, accompanied by a half-brother of one of...
Young girls holding American flags and dressed in clothes covered with stars and stripes. Some are on a Montgomery school bus, and others stand in front of it. The photograph was taken in Pintlala, Alabama.
At the beginning of the registers, students were to sketch the layout of their gardens. On the next pages they were to record the kinds of fruits and vegetables grown; the dates of planting and harvesting; the type of work done; the cost of seeds,...
"Dorothy Hall, industrial building for girls, was given by Misses Olivia and Caroline Phelps Stokes. The building, located near the Institute Chapel, is equipped for giving instruction in numerous trades and industries for girls. Dorothy Hall is...
Advertisement for the sale of Milton A. Browder's estate at a "public outcry" auction on February 16, 1860. For sale are about 2,400 acres of land; 50 slaves ("of superior quality, embracing Boys and Girls, single men and women, and families, all...