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- Letter from Ray Rushton, chairman of the Montgomery County Campaign Committee Against the Constitutional Amendment, to Thomas M. Owen in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1909 November
- The committee opposed the adoption of a prohibition amendment to the Alabama constitution. In the letter Rushton explains that his organization is trying to determine how many citizens are against the amendment, though he never specifically...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Selections: Giving the Truth About the Amendment," published by the Prohibition Campaign Committee of Montgomery County.
- 1909 November
- This leaflet reprints articles and editorials from Alabama newspapers supporting the proposed prohibition amendment to the Alabama constitution. The pieces address arguments from opponents of the amendment; discuss the corruption and activities of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Homes Searched! Stores Searched!"
- 1909
- "White Men Thrown Into Jail With Negro Criminals, Their Baggage Seized and Searched. For What?" Broadside opposing the proposed prohibition amendment to the Alabama constitution; it includes statements from several Alabama citizens whose property...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Transcript of "An Act Impowering [sic] the Magistrates and Freeholders of Charlotte County Occasionally to Prohibit the Selling of Rum or Other Strong Liquors to the Indians," passed by the General Assembly of British West Florida.
- 1767 June 2
- The act enables local authorities to decide when to limit the sale of alcoholic beverages to Indians, in order to protect the colonists and preserve peaceful relations with local tribes: "Whereas frequent Tumults and Disturbances have happened by...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from J. Gayle in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to John Coffee.
- 1831 January 14
- In the letter Gayle discusses former Governor Moore's response to Coffee's recent correspondence; Moore denies Coffee's account of a conversation regarding the conflict between him and Colonel John McKinley. Gayle feels that his "retraction is a...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Civil Rights in Alabama."
- 1874
- 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...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Alabama Constitution of 1901.
- 1901 September 3
- The constitution includes the following articles: declaration of rights; state and county boundaries; distribution of powers of government; legislative department (including a a section on local legislation); executive department; judicial...
- 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
- Ordinance of Secession, adopted by the Alabama constitutional convention of 1861.
- 1861 January 11
- The ordinance declares that "that the State of Alabama now withdraws, and is hereby withdrawn from the Union known as the United States of America, and henceforth ceases to be one of said United States, and is, and of right ought to be a Sovereign...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letters between Juney Thompson in Siluria, Alabama, and John H. Bankhead in Washington, D.C.
- 1917 May
- In the first letter, written May 9, 1917, Thompson asks if an employee on her farm may be excused from the draft: "It is almost impossible to get labor and this boy is my mainstay in my 'cropping plans'...I do not know that my request is a just...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Handwritten copy of a letter from D. P. Everett in Orange Hill, Florida, to Governor John Milton.
- 1864 June 13
- In the letter Everett urges Milton to cooperate with the governor of Alabama to provide military protection at the saltworks in West Bay, Florida: "The operatives have so long & so often been injured & annoyed by insignificant raids upon their work...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from Robert Lee in Birmingham, Alabama, to Senator John Bankhead in Washington, D.C.
- 1917 July 1
- In the message Lee asks Bankhead not to support the proposed Food and Fuel Control Act: "Government control will not create more food but rather less and will likely demoralize everything." At the time the telegram was sent, Bankhead was...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from S. J. Bell and other men in Opelika, Alabama, to Senator John Bankhead in Washington, D.C.
- 1917 July 3
- In the message the men ask Bankhead not to support the proposed Food and Fuel Control Act. They specifically oppose the section that applies to cotton: "Remember the prices of 1914 from the effect of which we are just recovering we trust that you...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Telegram from the Birmingham Printing Pressmen's Union to Senator John Bankhead in Washington, D.C.
- 1917 July 16
- In the message the union members support the proposed Food and Fuel Control Act and ask Bankhead "to use your influence in trying to get the food administration bill enacted at once." At the time the telegram was sent, Bankhead was representing...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letters between Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Statham in Lehigh, Alabama, and John H. Bankhead in Washington, D.C.
- 1916 January
- In the first letter, written January 10, 1916, Statham gives support for the British blockade in Europe, which allowed the United States to trade only with Allied powers: "But you know if it was not for the Great English Navy our farmers would not...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from a delegation of the Unemployed Councils of Alabama, to Governor Benjamin Miller and the state legislature.
- 1931-1935 circa
- In the letter the men describe the "widespread unemployment and great misery" affecting the citizens of the state, and they complain that the legislature is not discussing any programs to meet the needs of the poor ("All the so called economy...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Resolution from a joint session of the Alabama legislature, passed in response to the Selma-Montgomery March.
- 1965 March 19
- The resolution asks "every loyal citizen of the State, of every race, color, creed or persuasion, to stay at home or at his regular place of business--as far removed from the line of march and demonstrations as is possible--until the risk of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Alex K. Hall in camp at Dalton, Georgia, to his parents, probably in Portland, Alabama.
- 1864 February 20
- During the Civil War, Alex served in the 2nd and 3rd Alabama Cavalry. In the letter he discusses food available in camp ("well supplied in the eating line); clothing he needs; weather in the area; possible troop movements and campaigns; his low...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Bolling Hall, Jr., in Dandridge, Tennessee, to his father in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1864 February 7
- From November 1863 through the end of the Civil War, Bolling Hall, Jr., was colonel of the 59th Alabama Infantry regiment. In the letter he discusses the reenlistment and related legislation ("I hope that congress will put in the exempts &...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection