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A. Mercer Daniel Photographic Album
A. S. Williams III Civil Rights Photograph Collection
This collection consists of photographs and manuscripts related to the United States Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). The images depict major events, key figures, and opposition from hate groups. While the collection focuses heavily on Alabama, there are additional events and locations represented.
African American Mounted Photographs Collection
A collection of thirteen black-and-white mounted portraits depicting African Americans.
Alabama Nurses Association records
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Athelyne Celest Banks Papers
Papers that document the life of a prominent African American educator in Decatur, Alabama.
Jesse Beene letters
Two letters written from Cahawba, Alabama, to Rowland G. Hazard in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The first, dated 14 July 1839, orders shoes for Beene's sixty-eight slaves and includes a list of slaves and a measurement of their feet in inches. In the second, dated 16 December 1841, Beene expresses dissatisfaction with both shoes and prices.
Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke
Bill of sale and warrantee for an enslaved person, Zeke, sold by W. S. Adkins of Lowndes County, Alabama, for $1600. The buyer's name is illegible.
Billie Jean Young Papers
The collection contains materials related to Billie Jean Young's one-woman show Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light… and other materials produced and gathered by Young.
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
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.
Charlie J. Black papers
Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.
Booker T. Washington letter
Letter from Booker T. Washington asking for financial support for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The letter is dated November 12, 1915, two days before Washington's death.
Buford Boone papers
Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.
Glenda Brewer research paper
Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
Brien Chapel A.M.E. Church records
Records of this African Methodist Episcopal church in Burnsville, Alabama, from 1924-1973.
Brown Hill School Trustees' minutes
Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.
Bruce A. Hood Paper
Paper entitled "Some Rambling Thoughts on the American Negro and Current Related Issues," describing life for African Americans since emancipation
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract
Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Joe W. Burleson deposition
Tuscaloosa, Alabama Circuit Court deposition, dated 3 February 1977, of the plaintiff in civil action no. 7984, Joe W. Burleson vs. National Broadcasting Co., et al.
Calhoun School Papers
Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.
Carriere and Borduzat conveyance
Notarized document dated 22 April 1836, for sale of slaves in New Orleans by (Auguste) Carriere & (Daniel Gregoire) Borduzat to Prosper Foy.
Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs
Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.
Charles Robinson papers
Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
Collection pertaining to the death of Martin, enslaved earthworks laborer for the Confederacy in Charleston, South Carolina
Creole Social Club records
Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.
Dillard Family Ledgers
Don Speed Smith Goodloe Papers
Donn Sanford photographs
Photographs of the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.
W. E. B. Du Bois papers
Typewritten works by DuBois, including an essay entitled "The Future of Africa in America" as well as a list of "Books on the African American"
Ephraim Madison Henry papers
Correspondence, concert programs, and other documents from this Tuskegee Institute graduate
Farm Security Administration Photographs
The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama. Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Five Certificates Attesting to the Service of African American Sailors during the Civil War
The affidavits in this collection confirm the service of African American sailors during the Civil War
Frederick D. Kennedy collection
Photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, and assorted memorabilia
Frederick D. Kennedy Vintage Glass Paperweight Collection
Vintage glass paperweight collection primarily featuring United Methodist or Methodist Episcopal churches around the turn of the twentieth century
Henry Gant Scrapbook
Scrapbook, which covers over fifty years, focuses on the Gant family of Hiller and Brownsville, Pennsylvania, particularly on Henry Gant and his sons, Gene and Tim.
William Gary receipt
Receipt dated 28 January 1836 for a 19 year old slave, Bradley, bought by William Gary from Linoir Lassiter.
George Corley Wallace Photographs
Thirty black and white photographs depicting George Wallace at the University of Alabama 1973 19 November during the homecoming activities. It was the Alabama versus Georgia homecoming football game, and Terry Points was the first African American awarded homecoming queen.
Good Samaritan Hospital's School of Nursing Photographic Album
One photographic album containing images and ephemera related to Gertrude Owens' time as a student at the Good Samaritan Hospital's Nursing School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Green Family Photographs and Ephemera
A collection of photographs and ephemera belonging to the Green family of Roanoke and Wedowee, Alabama.
Bird Griffin papers
Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.
Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards
Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.
W. C. Handy Letter
Contains one letter written from Handy to Columbia Records executive George Avakian and Handy’s answers to a questionnaire sent by Avakian.
Jere Haralson letter
Letter written in 1876 by African American member of Congress from Alabama to the United States Centennial Commission in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, requesting an additional invitation for his wife to attend the opening of the Centennial International Exhibition of Industry.
Hugh Davis Papers
Extensive correspondence, business records, and receipts of this Marion, Alabama, plantation owner and attorney, and his family.
Hugh Young Topographical Memoir on East and West Florida
This collection contains a handwritten copy of A Topographical Memoir on East and West Florida with Itineraries, a report written by US Army engineer Hugh Young in preparation for General Andrew Jackson’s 1818 march into Pensacola, West Florida, during the First Seminole War.
J. E. Mulkin Collection of African American Photographs
This collection consists of 151 photographs and glass plate negatives of African Americans.
James M. Research Materials for The Late Great Johnny Ace
This collection consists of the research done by Dr. James M. Salem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, for his book, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R and B to Rock and Roll. Materials include audio and video recordings all pertaining to the larger context of African American Popular Culture in the 1950s.
James Smith U.S. Army discharge papers
Military discharge forms for James Smith, a member of the United States Army's Tenth Cavalry Regiment, also known as "Buffalo Soldiers."
James William Oakley Jr. Photographs
Photographs taken by James William Oakley Jr. during the week that Autherine Lucy, the first African American student at The University of Alabama, enrolled in February 1956.
Jennie C. Lee Papers
Contains photographs, letters, programs, and other materials created and collected by Lee, who was director of the Tuskegee Choir for twenty-five years (1903-1928).