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Alabama Nurses Association records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0044
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1913-1977

Harry Mell Ayers papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0097
Abstract Contains the correspondence of this New Deal Democrat and Civil Rights supporter who owned the newspaper, the Anniston Star. The correspondence deals with local, state, and national political campaigns, elections, education, civil rights, editorials, letters to the editor, and events of the times. The collection also contains personal correspondence with other newspapermen, educators, and statesmen; copies of editorials and clippings on Alabama politics, Anniston, education, the Federal...
Dates: 1918-1956

Billie Jean Young Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3417
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1983 - 2002

Birmingham News Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-007
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs depicting the Alabama football, basketball, and civil rights movement in the 1950s.

Dates: 1835 - 1974

Buford Boone papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0187
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.

Dates: 1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968

Camille Maxwell Elebash Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0478
Abstract

Documents, interviews, and source material used by Camille Elebash,in co-producing with Joe Terry, the documentary George Wallace: A Politician’s Legacy.

Dates: 1964-1988

Donn Sanford photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-021
Abstract

Photographs of the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.

Dates: 1956 February

T. O. Harris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0304
Abstract

Materials saved by the chief of Marion, Alabama, police including legislative reports, police reports, photos, newspaper articles, letters, affidavits concerning demonstrations in Marion, Selma, and Montgomery, Alabama.

Dates: 1959-1966

B.J. Hollars research notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3643
Abstract

Research notes on civil rights in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Dates: unknown

James William Oakley Jr. Photographs

 Collection — Box: 38034.001
Identifier: 2010-020
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1956 February

Ku Klux Klan pamphlet

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3892
Abstract

Pamphlet lists the names of residents who "signed the petition sent to Governor [George] Wallace," and the names of the employers of the signers.

Dates: 1963 May 29

Joseph C. Manning letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3818
Abstract

Letters showing Manning's efforts to stop the disenfranchisement of African American voters in Alabama in early twentieth century.

Dates: 1902 - 1912; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1906

Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach Scrapbooks

 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

E.D. Nixon article reprints

 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

President Frank A. Rose Records

 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

President Oliver C. Carmichael Records

 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

Ralph Wyckoff Libel Suit Legal Files

 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

Segregationist propaganda collection

 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

Mignon Smith and Carol Bennett Alabama Radio Network papers

 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

University of Alabama Reel to Reel Collection

 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

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