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Collection
Identifier: MSS-4342
Scope and Contents
Two scrapbooks containing seven black and white photographs, about 218 original or photocopied newspaper and magazine clippings, thirty-five teletype reports, and some ephemera documenting Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach’s career and civil rights in the United States from 1962 to 1965. Katzenbach was appointed as United States Deputy Attorney General by John F. Kennedy in April 1962 and later as United States Attorney General appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in September 1964. He actively...
Dates:
1962 - 1965
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2963
Abstract
A collection of reproductions of articles concerning E.D. Dixon, the organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Dates:
1955-1982
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4745
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This collection consists of a broadside announcing a speech by Congressman Oscar DePriest at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 6, 1931, at 8 PM. The broadside highlights DePriest’s historic significance as the only African American in Congress at the time, the first African American elected to Congress outside the South, and the first African American Congressman of the twentieth century.The text of the broadside praises...
Dates:
1931
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4956
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the October 1965 issue of Our Georgia Family, the official journal of the Georgia Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers (GCCPT). The journal states the objects and creed of the organization on the inside of its cover. Contents include a prayer, a message from president Blanche Baldwin, and a list of officers and past presidents. In addition to projects and news that might be of interest to GCCPT members, articles focus on...
Dates:
1965-10
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2962
Abstract
Scrapbook containing correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera concerning civil rights, Christianity, and centenarians gathered by Ada Belle Parker.
Dates:
1962-1983
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1114
Abstract
An extensive collection of books, pamphlets, and other literature from civil rights groups, government commissions, and white supremacist organizations during the desegregation era.
Dates:
1950-1980
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4795
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This collection contains a typescript petition (circa 1923-1925) addressed to Governor William W. Brandon and the Alabama State Legislature by Oscar W. Adams and eight other prominent African American citizens of Birmingham, Alabama. The petition opposes the inclusion of a “segregation clause” in a proposed zoning bill that sought to formalize racial separation in residential areas.It emphasizes the steady migration of African Americans out of Alabama, the role of civic neglect...
Dates:
1925
Record Group
Identifier: RG-006
Abstract
This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president Frank A. Rose. The records document his years as president, from 1958-1969, and include information on the integration of The University of Alabama in 1963.
Dates:
1958-1969
Record Group
Identifier: RG-013
Abstract
This record group contains the records of University of Alabama president Oliver C. Carmichael. The records document his years as president, from 1953-1957, and include information on the attempt by Autherine Lucy to end racial segration at The University of Alabama in 1956.
Dates:
1944 - 1959
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3713
Abstract
Letter from Dan Price, a white Alabaman who taught freed African-American students, to his Congressman, Charles Wilson Pierce, about the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Sumter County, Alabama, in 1868.
Dates:
1868-12-21
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3636
Abstract
The legal papers of the lawyer hire to represent the New York Times in defense of the libel suit stemming from an article by Harrison Salisbury , published on 12 April 1960, entitled "Fear and Hatred Grip Birmingham."
Dates:
1960 - 1964
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0549
Abstract
Photocopied documents, including letters, poetry, news clippings, class work, essays, and journal entries of Alabama school administrator and preacher.
Dates:
1826 - 1865
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4951
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a typed letter signed by Alabama Attorney General Richmond M. Flowers, dated June 17, 1963, on official State of Alabama letterhead, along with the retained carbon copy of a May 4, 1963, letter from a Georgia newspaper editor. The editor’s letter commends Flowers for his outspoken opposition to Governor George Wallace’s segregationist policies and his commitment to lawful desegregation of public institutions, specifically referencing Flowers’ condemnation of...
Dates:
1963 June 17
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4815
Scope and Contents
This item is a small propaganda poster titled "This Man is a Political Prisoner," issued by the United Klans of America (UKA) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1969. Measuring 8.5 x 11 inches, the poster is printed in blue, red, and black ink on card stock. The design promotes UKA Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton as a victim of government persecution following his 1969 imprisonment for contempt of Congress, after he refused to surrender Klan membership rolls to federal investigators. The poster...
Dates:
1969
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4803
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two letters written by Russell Hubbard Nevins, a moderate abolitionist and former president of the New York Stock Exchange, to a friend in Illinois. The letters are dated December 1852 and March 4, 1853. In these letters, Nevins offers personal reflections on the political and social climate of the time, specifically condemning the Illinois "Black Law" of 1853, which severely restricted the rights of free African American people in the state.
Dates:
1852 - 1853
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4813
Scope and Contents
This item is a broadside titled "Save Our Land Join the Klan," created by the United Klans of America, circa 1960s. Measuring 8.5 x 11 inches and printed in black ink on thick stock paper, the broadside features a stylized image of a robed Klansman atop a rearing horse, holding a flaming cross. The slogan "For God and Country" is printed across a grass-covered landscape, accompanied by the recruitment address: "Join the Klan, P.O. Box 2369, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35401." The item is notable...
Dates:
ca 1960s
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1242
Abstract
Broadsides and other literature handed out in and around Birmingham, Alabama, by opponents of desegregation. 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
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3369
Abstract
Newspaper clippings, transcripts of interviews, press releases and presidential convention media packets, covering people and events and their influence on Alabama.
Dates:
1963-2007
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3117
Abstract
Papers, books, and photographs belonging to Mabel Smythe-Haith, former ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, concerning academics, diplomacy, and civil rights.
Dates:
1950-2004
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3596
Abstract
Newsletters, magazines, and newspapers related to civil rights, the KKK, and the Neo-Confederate movement.
Dates:
circa 1980s
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:
1867
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4816
Scope and Contents
This item is a tri-fold recruitment brochure titled "An Introduction to the United Klans of America," published circa 1970 by the organization’s national office in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Printed on green cardstock, the brochure outlines the UKA’s ideological and organizational mission, and serves as a primer for prospective members. It includes a stylized history of the Ku Klux Klan following the Civil War, a summary of the group’s core values (“Americanism First,” “Benevolence,” and...
Dates:
ca 1970s
Collection
Identifier: 2012-038
Abstract
Reel to Reels of events on the University of Alabama campus, such as: Alumni recordings; Board of Trustees; Bear Bryant Show; Senator Jim Allen; Congressman Hale Boggs; Governor John Love; Leftenant Governor Jere Beasley; Leftenant Governor Albert Brewer; Winton Blount; Hilaritas 1971 - 1974; 1960s Honors Days; Interview with Vivian Malone, Robert Kennedy's visit to University of Alabama; Jane Fonda's visit to University of Alabama; interview with Yitzak Rabin; Maintenance strike; Capstone...
Dates:
1960 - 1979
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4735
Scope and Contents
A Communist Party report on the South, which describes its natural resources, the poverty and exploitation of its farmers, sharecroppers and tenants, and the root if its "backwardness": the "national oppression of the Negro people in the Black Belt." The report concludes with the Communist Party's commitment to fighting white chauvinism and in uniting mass organizations in the struggle against the oppression of African Americans.
Dates:
1949
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4754
Scope and Contents
This broadside contains excerpts from a 1957 speech by E.C. Barnard, a Mobile City Commission candidate and a leader in the local Ku Klux Klan. The document reflects the segregationist rhetoric of the period and serves as a historical artifact of the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the American South.The 1957 local election in Mobile was a pivotal moment, with Joseph Langan, a moderate with progressive views on race, running against Barnard. The election also...
Dates:
1957
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4320
Scope and Contents
One political campaign broadside in support of J. William Fulbright during the 1945 United States Senate race against Homer Adkins in Arkansas. The broadside was created by Pulaski County Friends of Bill Fulbright for U.S. Senator and is titled, "This is a response to Adkins' Campaign of Hate." The broadside details Adkins' racial prejudice and Fulbright's opposition to it, as well as other key issues Fulbright supported.
Dates:
1944
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4819
Scope and Contents
This rare and unrecorded printed flyer, issued in Washington, D.C. in 1922, was created to promote Zitkála-Šá’s Southern lecture tour for her 1921 publication American Indian Stories. The single-sheet circular is printed on recto with a blank verso and includes promotional language alongside book advertisements marked with editorial blue checkmarks. The document is uniformly toned, with delicate paper showing chipping along the right edge and splitting at...
Dates:
1922
