Mrs. Gatlin tells about the many people that were sick in her community during the 1918 flu outbreak. Those that were infected were deathly sick and bed-ridden. Others were fearful that they too may become infected with the flu during this time....
"Augusta Evans Wilson's Home is know throughout the country, for here in this beautiful old home, Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the Southern authoress, wrote her many books, among which are 'St. Elmo,' 'Beulah,' and others known to every lover of...
"'Augusta Evans Wilson's Home' is know throughout the country, for here in this beautiful old home, Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the southern authoress, wrote her many books, among which were St. Elmo, Beulah, and others known to every lover 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.
This article describes reaction to the surrender of Fort Sumter to Confederate forces: "The people were pleased to know that Major Anderson had been compelled to haul down the stars and stripes of the Abolition government, and that in their place...
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...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank W. Boykin, and others at a press conference in Birmingham, Alabama. Below the image and caption is an article describing Mrs. Roosevelt's lecture in there. From The Birmingham Post.
"Informality is the key note to afternoon meetings of Montgomery boys and girls at the snack bar of their Youth Club. While this group refreshes itself, others are playing games, reading, and talking over events of the day. The Club is housed in...
An Address delivered by Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Alabama, before the National Afro-American Council in McCauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky., Thursday Evening, July, 2, 1903.
Plate 20 from FORTY ETCHINGS: FROM SKETCHES MADE WITH THE CAMERA LUCIDA, IN NORTH AMERICA IN 1827 AND 1828 by Captain Basil Hall. From the author's description: "The figure on the left in this Sketch, was a Black man in charge of a plantation in...
"Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Gent, USAF (left), commander of the 32nd North American Air Defense Region, found time for relaxation last night between a visit to the Dauphin Island radar warning station yesterday and a scheduled trip to the Thomasville,...