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Cather & Brown Books

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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract

Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.

Dates: 1873

Creole Social Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0374
Abstract

Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.

Dates: 1878-1902

E.D. Nixon article reprints

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2963
Abstract

A collection of reproductions of articles concerning E.D. Dixon, the organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott.

Dates: 1955-1982

Oscar W. Adams papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0010
Abstract

Correspondence of this Birmingham, Alabama, minister of the A.M.E. Zion Church, principally concerning the struggle to remain solvent during the Great Depression. Also includes budget sheets, receipts, reports, and legal documents for this and other A.M.E churches throughout the South.

Dates: 1909 - 1952

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