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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

Bootlegging Court records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0188
Abstract

One ledger containing court records of cases relating to bootlegging and illegal distillery operations.

Dates: 1871-1881

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  • Subject: Criminal justice, Administration of X

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African Americans 1
African Americans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century 1
Civil rights 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1