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Found in 2 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

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

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  • Subject: Civil rights X

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African Americans 1
African Americans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama 1
Alabama 1
Alabama -- Politics and government 1