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File Name	Q24122 - Q24131
Item Title	"Civil Rights in Alabama."
Description	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 now surround and threaten them and their constitutional rights." In their statement, the convention members describe the ways in which their political and civil rights have been ignored in Alabama. They then suggest amendments to recently enacted civil rights legislation because "It is absolutely essential to our protection...that the laws of the United States shall be so enforced as to compel respect for and obedience to them." In closing, the group addresses the possibility of leaving Alabama altogether: "We have no reason to expect from our political opponents, now dominant in this State, the exercise of justice, mercy, or wise policy. Not recognizing the value of our labor, their leaders declare our presence as a curse to the State, and profess to look with pleasure upon our exodus from the State. The solemn question with us is, Shall we be compelled to repeat the history of the Israelites and go into exile from the land of our nativity and our homes, to seek new homes and fields of enterprise, beyond the reign and rule of Pharaoh?"
Date	1874
Sort by date	1874
Time Period	1870-1879
Subject	African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama Alabama--Politics and government--1865-1950 Alabama--Race relations Freedmen--Alabama Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Alabama United States--Politics and government--1865-1933 Voting--Alabama
Format	Pamphlets
Voyager Number	v34847
Author	United States. President (1869-1877 : Grant)
Collection or Series Title	Civil rights in Alabama : message from the President of the United States, transmitting a memorial of a convention of colored citizens assembled in the city of Montgomery, Ala., on December 2, 1874
Box Number	Vertical File Pamphlet Collection, Box 64, Item 13
Catalog Record	http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=34847
Repository	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language	English
Rights	This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
Digital Format	600 dpi tiff
Project Name	Alabama History Education Initiative
Digital image reproduction form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Permission to publish form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/private2.pdf
Upload batch	Malone (text) 2010.05-C
Date created	2010-07-15

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