Desegregation -- Alabama

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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.

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

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Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.

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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

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Contains personal papers, documents, records, and accomplishments of John L. Blackburn.

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Papers of the former University of Alabama Dean of Men.

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Court documents dealing with a suit brought by Autherine Lucy and Polly Anne Myers against The University of Alabama, as well as an invitation to her 1956 wedding and a newspaper clipping written when she graduated from UA with her master's degree in elementary education.

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...

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Letter to and one from former governor George C. Wallace

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Manuscript of Tilford's book that charts the ups and downs of The University of Alabama during the turbulent decade of the 1960s.