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...
"Albert Brewer was elected Lt. Governor of Alabama without opposition in the general election on Nov. 8, 1966. In January, 1963 he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives and was the youngest (age 34) ever elected to this high post. He...
"The House of Representatives was the setting yesterday for the baptism of Robert Joseph Coar, Jr., whose father is in charge of the capitol's radio room. In the baptism ceremony, the four-months-old infant was consecrated to 'God and his country.'...
"Attended by four Capitol policemen the body of the late William B. Bankhead of Alabama, Speaker of the House, lay in state in a flower covered casket in the well of the House of Representatives September 16 before the state funeral attended by...
In this message to the United States House of Representatives, President Ulysses S. Grant presents a statement he received from a group of African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, who had assembled to discuss the "grave and menacing dangers that...
This article by Wilbur Jennings describes Boykin's style and reputation as he begins his seventeenth year in the House of Representatives. From The Mobile Press-Register.
This article discusses the involvement of transient union members in Southern mills during the nationwide textile strike: "Flying squadrons are closing down mills in the south and east when there is a small minority of union operatives in any plant...
Report submitted to the United States House of Representatives by Dixon Hall Lewis of the Committee on Indian Affairs. The committee requests "relief for certain Creek Indians of mixed blood, within the State of Alabama; and also the petitions of...
Statement submitted to the United States House of Representatives, detailing the sale of public lands in the Alabama Territory between 1809 and 1818. The accompanying chart gives an annual report for each land office in the territory (Huntsville,...
Report issued by the Committee of Claims of the United States House of Representatives, in response to a request made by the Alabama legislature after the recent Creek War: "...many of the citizens of Alabama...have been subjected to great...
"Dwight Cotton Mills First of Alabama Textiles to Meet Labor Tie-Up." This article lists the workers' demands and mentions that representatives of the textile union will soon meet to discuss the possibility of a statewide strike.
This article discusses the proposed statewide textile strike and its effects. Scott Roberts, president of the Alabama Cotton Manufacturing Association, reports that mill owners may choose to close their businesses temporarily, before employees can...
"Photo shows a general view in the House of Representatives here today as official Washington assembled to pay its parting respects to the late Speaker of the House, William B. Bankhead. Left to right front row: Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins;...
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...
"Tallulah Bankhead, actress daughter of the Speaker of the House, paid her father a visit today and watched him keep the House of Representatives in line. Then they went to the Speaker's private offices, where they enjoyed a simple repast of...