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- The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 07, No. 01, Spring Issue 1945.
- 1945
- Pages 5-150.
- Alabama Historical Quarterly
- The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 07, No. 02, Summer Issue 1945.
- 1945
- Pages 156-331.
- Alabama Historical Quarterly
- "Accused Ravishing Huntsville Girls."
- 1931 March 25
- 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").
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Alabama Troops Avert Threatened Lynching."
- 1931 March 30
- "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...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Bertillon Department at Wetumpka."
- 1910-1914 circa
- Two staff members examining prisoner with arms outstretched. The Bertillon system was a means of identifying persons by creating a detailed record of body measurements, physical description, and sometimes Photographs From the Quadrennial Report of...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Bertillon Department at Wetumpka."
- 1910-1914 circa
- Two staff members examining prisoner. The Bertillon system was a means of identifying persons by creating a detailed record of body measurements, physical description, and sometimes Photographs From the Quadrennial Report of the Board of Inspectors...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Death Penalty Properly Demanded in Fiendish Crime of Nine Burly Negroes."
- 1931 March 27
- This article discusses the upcoming trial of the nine "Scottsboro Boys," were were falsely charged with assaulting two white women on a train. The piece commends the local citizens for allowing the authorities to handle the matter, promising that...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "For Higher Wages! For Unemployment Insurance! For Recognition of the Labor Unions!!"
- 1934
- Advertisement for a May Day rally sponsored by the Communist Party in Birmingham, Alabama. The flier encourages unity among workers of both races because "united action of white and Negro workers is the way to win." It also includes a copy of the...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "How the Nine Arrests at Scottsboro Were Effected."
- 1931 March 26
- This article gives an account of the arrest of the "Scottsboro Boys," which was submitted by a traveling salesman. It describes the appearance and behavior of the nine young men and the two women they were accused of assaulting, and it mentions...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Hypodermic injection by Dr. McCrummen. A sick mule at the convict stockade - Sprague Junction, Alabama."
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Judge J. A. Hawkins Undaunted By Threatening Telegrams From International Labor Defense."
- 1931 April 13
- This article discusses a message sent by the International Labor Defense, demanding the release of the recently convicted "Scottsboro Boys." The nine young men were falsely charged with the "criminal assault" of two white women on a train, and...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Negroes Riot in Gadsden to Protest Doom."
- 1931 April 10
- This article discusses the rioting in the Etowah County jail by eight of the "Scottsboro Boys," who had been convicted and given the death penalty: "When finally quieted and asked what was the matter, one of the negroes replied, 'We just don't like...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Plow Squad at Tubercular Hospital."
- 1910-1914 circa
- From the Quadrennial Report of the Board of Inspectors of Convicts for the State of Alabama, 1910-1914, p.115
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Revolting in Last Degree in Story of Girls."
- 1931 March 26
- 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 horrible ever perpetrated in the United States"). Three National Guard companies were called up to...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Strung Up."
- 1889 January 16
- Article from The Weekly Herald about the lynching of George Meadows at Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama. Meadows, an African American, was accused of assaulting a white woman and killing her young son.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "They Must Not Die!"
- 1931 April
- Postcard from Bertha Markowitz in Brooklyn, New York, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama. Markowitz is protesting the conviction of the "Scottsboro Boys," nine young African American men who were falsely accused of rape and tried in...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Training young dogs to trail convicts - Sprague Junction, Alabama."
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Warden Jackson and his man-hunters ready for the chase - Sprague Junction, Alabama."
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Warden Jackson and his pack after the capture of a fugitive - Sprague Junction, Alabama."
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Workers--White and Negro Unite to Win!"
- 1934
- Advertisement for a May Day rally sponsored by the International Labor Defense, to be held Birmingham, Alabama, on May 1. The flier encourages unity among workers of both races to "Defy the terror and Jim Crow orders of the bosses" and to resist...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection