Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
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
- 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
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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Processed by
Unknown; updated by Andrew Harris, 2012
Source
- Cather & Brown Books (Bookseller, Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- May 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository