Top image: "These Soldiers Are Learning to Send and Receive Messages in Code at the Tuskegee Flying School." Bottom image: "These Officer Candidates Stand at Attention. They are Members of the 99th Pursuit Squadron." From "Negroes and the War,"...
In the late 1930s, Mrs. Daugette led a movement to restore the original Great Seal of Alabama, which had been replaced in 1868. After the legislation passed in 1939, she drew the design that is currently in use.
Mrs. Clay-Clopton's first husband was Clement Comer Clay, Jr., who represented Alabama in both the United States Senate and the Confederate Senate. In 1904 she published A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES: MEMOIRS OF MRS. CLAY OF ALABAMA, COVERING SOCIAL AND...
Two of the photographs show the start of the ship's construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1940; congressmen from Alabama attended the event. The U.S.S. Alabama was launched from Portsmouth on February 16,1942. Also...
Julian was assistant clerk of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1898 to 1901 and clerk of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1903. He served as Alabama's secretary of state from 1907 to 1910.
In the first passage C. E. Bracknell describes the living conditions and company school at Gobbler's Knob, a village for steelworkers in Jefferson County. The second passage includes accounts by E. L. Lovelady and C. E. Bracknell. Lovelady, who...
In this passage Leon Alexander, a coal miner and union organizer in Alabama, recalls living and working under Jim Crow laws and his early efforts to fight them. He discusses father's work in the United Mine Workers and the unsuccessful miners'...
The first passage includes a letter from Zelda in May 1919, written from Montgomery, Alabama. In it she discusses homecoming celebrations in the city at the end of World War I, and she asks Scott about his next visit. She also mentions photographs...
The pamphlet features two fold-out sections: the first is a map France showing the movements and accomplishments of the division, illustrated with humorous cartoons; the second shows images of the soldiers and the liberated cities. A note on the...