Box 3587
Container
Contains 12 Collections and/or Records:
Letter, 1861
File — Box: 3587
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Letter to his wife discussing his daily activities
Dates:
1861
Collection, 1940 - 1991
File — Box: 3587
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Material about families dwelling in Marengo County, Alabama including Jewish families, cemetery surveys, and miscellaneous family records. Copied from material in the Demopolis Public Library.
Dates:
1940 - 1991
Records, 1893
File — Box: 3587
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Net earnings of this Alabama company for 1893, from sales of coal and coke, investments in property, and railroad operations.
Dates:
1893
Papers, 1937 - 1938
File — Box: 3587
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From the Collection:
This collection contains materials relating to Simpson's participation in the Rural Project, a 1930s "program of supervised student teaching in selected crowded rural Negro schools of Montgomery County [Alabama]." It includes photographs of Tankersley, Peoples Village, Ramer, Little Zion, Jericho, and Pine Grove schools, and information about students' activities.
Dates:
1937 - 1938
Commonplace and letterbook
Item — Box: 3587
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains one book with entries made by various people in different time periods. Early entries in the book date from 1823 and are attributed to Jesse Carter. They include hand-written poetry by authors such as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, and Alexander Pope. Later entries made by an unknown person date from at least 1843 and include copies of letters that mention Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras societies. The author mentions the possibility of attending Cowbellion de Rakin Society...
Dates:
1823-1882
Minutes Ledger
Item — Box: 3587
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains the Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.
Dates:
1916-1924
Paper
File — Box: 3587
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
A paper, "Music Through the Generations", composed for a University of Alabama class in American Folklore, 1979. The paper relates the history of the Thrasher Brothers gospel music group, of which the author was a member.
Dates:
1979
Records
File — Box: 3587
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From the Collection:
This collection contains copies of legal papers from the Mississippi Circuit Court and an Annual Report for the company from 1836.
Dates:
1836-1845
Papers
File — Box: 3587
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From the Collection:
This collection consists mostly of personal correspondence and newspaper clippings about the passing of Daniel Haughton, who was the chairman for Lockheed Corporation from 1967-1976.
Dates:
1980s
Papers
File — Box: 3587
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From the Collection:
This collection consists of newspaper clippings, a telegram, and a placard from a University of Alabama honor society to Eric Rodgers.
Dates:
1957-1966
Segregationist Propaganda
File — Box: 3587, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
Broadsides and other literature handed out in and around Birmingham, Alabama, by opponents of segregation. Groups represented were: Alabama Committee for Conservative Government, Birmingham Committee to Preserve the American Republic, Citizens Councils of Alabama, Freedom Educational Foundation, National States Rights Party, and the United Americans for Constitutional Government.
Dates:
circa 1962-1963, 1964
Alabama Segregation Materials
File — Box: 3587, Folder: 3a
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
Broadsides and other literature handed out in and around Birmingham, Alabama, by opponents of segregation. Groups represented were: Alabama Committee for Conservative Government, Birmingham Committee to Preserve the American Republic, Citizens Councils of Alabama, Freedom Educational Foundation, National States Rights Party, and the United Americans for Constitutional Government.
Dates:
circa 1962-1963, 1964