"For the first time in the memory of its senior member--Senator Lister Hill, who has 28 years service in both houses of Congress--the entire Alabama congressional delegation has been assembled for a group photograph, with the results shown here."
"Convention Hall, Philadelphia. Waving the Confederate flag, 13 bolting Alabama delegates and all of Mississippi's 22 delegates walk out of the National Democratic Convention in a dramatic moment." Handy Ellis is leaving the microphone as Lister...
The group had gathered for a dinner party given for Congressman Sam Hobbs and his wife. Frank and Ocllo Boykin gave each of the ladies a nylon nightgown produced by Vanity Fair Mills in Monroeville, Alabama.