Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0157

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Scope and Contents note

This collection consists of 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. Curcuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans. The clippings were evidently pasted to a series of sheets of paper, but most of them have fallen off, so the organization is no longer clear.

Dates

Creation: 1873

Conditions Governing Access

None

Biographical/Historical note

Walter P. Billings was an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, who was murdered on 1 August 1874.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (17 items)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

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.

Provenance

Purchased from Cather & Brown Books, 1992

General

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