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John Cocke Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Overview
Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Dates:
1810-1899
Early University of Alabama Administrative Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-001
Overview
The record group contains many early extant records of The University of Alabama and includes materials documenting a wide range of functions, persons, and aspects of the University.
Dates:
1820 - 1920
John J. Sparkman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1319
Overview
Democratic congressman John J. Sparkman (1899-1985) represented the state of Alabama in the House of Representatives from 1937-1946 and in the Senate from 1946-January 3, 1979. He was known for his support of the Tennessee Valley Authority, military personnel, and space exploration, and served on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, the Small Business Committee, and the Banking Committee. Materials in this collection include correspondence, legislation, newsletters, press releases,...
Dates:
1917-2001, bulk 1937-1978
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
Ada Belle Parker Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2962
Overview
Scrapbook containing correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera concerning civil rights, Christianity, and centenarians gathered by Ada Belle Parker.
Dates:
1962-1983
Mabel Smythe-Haith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3117
Overview
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
Mignon Smith and Carol Bennett Alabama Radio Network papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3369
Overview
Newspaper clippings, transcripts of interviews, press releases and presidential convention media packets, covering people and events and their influence on Alabama.
Dates:
1963-2007
Billie Jean Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3417
Overview
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
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
Creek Indian Land Sales Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0371
Overview
Documents pertaining to the sale of lands belonging to Ko Yoo Quae, Alpetter Hadjo, Co Choc O Nee, Coch Che Yo Ho Lo, and Pelis-hart-ke - all Creek Indians living in Alabama between 1833 and 1841.
Dates:
1833 - 1841
Bruce A. Hood Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0696
Abstract
Paper entitled "Some Rambling Thoughts on the American Negro and Current Related Issues," describing life for African Americans since emancipation
Dates:
1965
Birmingham News Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-007
Overview
This collection consists of photographs depicting the Alabama football, basketball, and civil rights movement in the 1950s.
Dates:
1835 - 1974
Ralph Wyckoff Libel Suit Legal Files
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3636
Overview
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
Georgia Census 1850 and 1860
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0566
Abstract
Handwritten census records for counties in Georgia. Contains information on numbers of slaves, acres of improved and unimproved land, and value of farms. Summary information provided for some counties. Counties included (1850): Elbert, Franklin, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Greene, Gordon, Hall, Harris, Heard, Henry, and Houston. Counties included (1860): Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Glynn, Gordon, Hall, Harrid, Heard, Houston, Lowndes, and Montgomery.
Dates:
unknown
Richard Furman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0549
Overview
Photocopied documents, including letters, poetry, news clippings, class work, essays, and journal entries of Alabama school administrator and preacher.
Dates:
1826-1865
Camille Maxwell Elebash Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0478
Overview
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
Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0012
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1860-02-16
William Fulbright 1944 Campaign Broadside
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
Edward Lee Hotel Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4321
Scope and Contents
One handmade sign from the Edward Lee Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi, from approximately 1963 supporting freedom and equality. The sign measures approximately 30" x 20" and is marked with the initials "EL" in two corners. The Edward Lee Hotel was one of two African American-owned hotels in Jackson, Mississippi.
Dates:
1963
E.D. Nixon article reprints
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2963
Overview
A collection of reproductions of articles concerning E.D. Dixon, the organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Dates:
1955-1982
Ku Klux Klan pamphlet
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3892
Overview
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
Overview
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
W. E. B. Du Bois papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3889
Overview
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"
Dates:
Circa 1940
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
Dan Price letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3713
Overview
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 December 21
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
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
Jesse Beene letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0128
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1839-1841
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
Alabama Review editorial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0051
Overview
Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.
Dates:
1976-1987
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1831
Abstract
Contains Martin Luther King's "Birmingham Jail Treatise" or as it is commonly known, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," originally written by King on scraps of paper. This iteration is a copy transcribed and then sent to various clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, including Reverend Joe C. Higginbotham, and includes the original envelope and transcription control sheet.
Dates:
1963-04-16
President Frank A. Rose Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-006
Overview
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
Southern Poverty Law Center scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3596
Overview
Newsletters, magazines, and newspapers related to civil rights, the KKK, and the Neo-Confederate movement.
Dates:
circa 1980s
B.J. Hollars research notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3643
Overview
Research notes on civil rights in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dates:
unknown
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1873
Glenda Brewer research paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0208
Overview
Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
Dates:
1975
Peter Bryce collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0226
Overview
A small miscellany of materials including Bryce's appointment as medical officer of ship "Yorkshire," clippings about Bryce, among them his obituary, and copy of his "Moral and Criminal Responsibility," 1888
Dates:
1859-1888
Joe W. Burleson deposition
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0232
Overview
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.
Dates:
1977 February 3
Callahan Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0262
Overview
A miscellany of materials, primarily genealogical records of a large number of families. The collection also contains files on the Hopewell Baptist Church in Fayette County, Alabama, the 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company F, Alabama land records, and on women's suffrage.
Dates:
unknown
Peter Archibald Carmichael papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0280
Abstract
A collection of this Alabama native and Louisiana State University professor's lecture notes, publications, and professional files on subjects including logic, religion, language, labor arbitration, and civil rights/segregation.
Dates:
1931-1974
Carriere and Borduzat conveyance
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0282
Overview
Notarized document dated 22 April 1836, for sale of slaves in New Orleans by (Auguste) Carriere & (Daniel Gregoire) Borduzat to Prosper Foy.
Dates:
1836 April 22
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
Clements family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0316
Abstract
Papers of a Tuscaloosa family whose members included Hardy Clements, Rufus Hargrove Clements, Martha Lavinia Clements, Frank Bugbee Clements, Luther Morgan Clements, and others. The bulk of the papers relate to Frank Bugbee Clements.
Dates:
1846-1948
Wade Hampton Coleman, Jr., papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0339
Abstract
Various documents, including speeches, correspondence, reports, faculty newsletters, alumni magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings of this Alabama native and University of Alabama professor of Romance Languages
Dates:
1924-1968; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960
Fighting French Relief Arm band and poem
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0541
Overview
A Free French Relief arm band, featuring a swastika and the words "Sous la Botte Nazie (Under the Nazi Boot)," and a printed poem in English by Marie C. Benney entitled "France," about the Nazi suppression of freedom in France.
Dates:
between 1939 and 1945
George Strother Gaines paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0551
Overview
Typescript copy of Gaines's "Reminiscences of Early Times in the Mississippi Territory," which discusses the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians and treaties (1810-1840).
Dates:
1908
Archimedes Hank petition and letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0619
Overview
Petition to Alabama Governor Clement Comer Clay from the citizens of Morgan County, Alabama, on behalf of Archimedes Hank, to repeal or reduce penalty for forfeiture of bond for failure to appear in court.
Dates:
1836
William Gary receipt
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0563
Overview
Receipt dated 28 January 1836 for a 19 year old slave, Bradley, bought by William Gary from Linoir Lassiter.
Dates:
1836 January 28
Norman E. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0783
Overview
Civil rights materials, most of which are photocopies
Dates:
1970s
Bessie Leach Hayden paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0651
Overview
Paper entitled "Then Came the Women: The University in the Nineties," written by Bessie Leach Hayden, Dean of Women, about the first sixty years of coeducation at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1953
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