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- "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
- "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
- "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
- "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
- "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
- Excerpts from A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, compiled by John G. Akin.
- 1833
- Included here are the title page and the slave code of 1833, which also gives laws governing "free persons of color."
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Excerpts from THE CODE OF ALABAMA, compiled by John J. Ormond, Arthur P. Bagby, and George Goldthwaite.
- 1852
- Included here are the title page and the slave code of 1852, which also gives laws governing "free negroes" and "free colored mariners."
- Alabama Textual Materials 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
- "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
- Packet of materials submitted to Governor Joseph F. Johnston, to request the pardon of Cudjo Lewis, who was convicted of manslaughter.
- 1900 July - August
- Lewis's father (also Cudjo) was the last surviving ex-slave from "Clotilda, " the last known ship to bring slaves to the United States; the ship landed in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860. The packet includes a statement of sentence, letters from other...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from a convict laborer at Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, to Reginald Dawson, president of the Alabama Board of Inspectors of Convicts.
- 1884 January 18
- Though there is no signature, this letter has been attributed to Ezekiel Archey. The last two pages appear to a postscript.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Order from the Alabama Board of Inspectors of Convicts to Comer and McCurdy of Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, for the discharge of convict laborers Ezekiel Archey and John Fannin.
- 1887 January 28
- Both men are to be discharged in February; a note by Archey's entry, however, indicates that an indictment is pending.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Wanted poster for George Tindell ("alias George Wilson"), an African American prisoner from Jefferson County, Alabama.
- 1924
- Tindell had been sentenced to 7 to 9 years for burglary, but he "escaped en route to Belle Ellen Prison." The poster includes images of Tindell; gives physical and biographical details about the prisoner; and offers a $50 reward for his return. See...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Editorial Department papers.
- 1937 circa
- Thirty pages of Alabama folklore.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection