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Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums

 Collection
Identifier: WP-2013001
Abstract

This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.

Dates: 1909 - 1924

Sarah Williams to William Ingram Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4741
Scope and Contents

On February 8, 1850, Sarah Williams, a Methodist from Liverpool, England, wrote a letter to her brother-in-law, William Ingram, a British immigrant and committed abolitionist residing in Petersburg, Virginia. This letter provides a rare personal glimpse into the life of a man who would become one of the most daring figures in the Underground Railroad movement in the Southern United States.

Dates: 1850 February 8

The Injustice of Poll Taxes Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4746
Scope and Contents This broadside, The Injustice of Poll Taxes Broadside, authored by Henry P. Farrow, is a passionate plea against the implementation of the poll tax in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. Written at a pivotal moment while the Georgia Reconstruction Constitutional Convention was in session, Farrow’s argument articulates the economic and moral injustices of such a tax, which disproportionately affected the poor of all races and ultimately served as a...
Dates: ca 1867

Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4250
Abstract

The Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States contains receipts, correspondence, and other materials that document the presence of enslaved African Americans in the US South.

Dates: 1796-2005

Wilhelmina Simpson Robinson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1203
Abstract

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