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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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Anti-Wallace Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4732
Scope and Contents This mimeographed flyer, produced by the Congress of African People in Philadelphia in 1970, promotes “The People’s Ball,” an event opposing George Wallace and his segregationist policies, referred to as “Wallace-ism.” The flyer invites attendees to meet John Cashin, an African American dentist, civil rights activist, and gubernatorial candidate in Alabama, and to support the fight against racism in the South. It features an illustration of George Wallace with a footprint on his face,...
Dates: 1970
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

B.J. Hollars research notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3643
Abstract

Research notes on civil rights in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Dates: unknown
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John Crommelin to William F. Knowland Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4736
Scope and Contents This typed letter, sent by retired Admiral John G. Crommelin in his role as trustee of the Elmore County White Citizens' Council (Wetumpka, Alabama), is addressed to Senator William Knowland regarding the Civil Rights Bill that Knowland had sponsored. In the letter, Crommelin accuses Jewish individuals of promoting the bill and claims that Knowland was influenced to sponsor it. He protests the construction of National Guard armories in Alabama, asserting that they could be staffed by federal...
Dates: 1957 March 8
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Robert M. Shelton Political Poster

 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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Save Our Land Join the Klan Broadside

 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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

United Klans of America Brochure

 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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

What the South Means to the Nation Report

 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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

White Supremacy Now and Forever Broadside by E.C. Barnard

 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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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