Box 3587

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The collection contains the Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.

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...

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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.

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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.

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Net earnings of this Alabama company for 1893, from sales of coal and coke, investments in property, and railroad operations.

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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.

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This collection consists of newspaper clippings, a telegram, and a placard from a University of Alabama honor society to Eric Rodgers.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This collection contains copies of legal papers from the Mississippi Circuit Court and an Annual Report for the company from 1836.

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Letter to his wife discussing his daily activities