African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Nurses Association records
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.
Anti-Wallace Broadside
Billie Jean Young Papers
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.
Donn Sanford photographs
Photographs of the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.
James William Oakley Jr. Photographs
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.
Ku Klux Klan pamphlet
Pamphlet lists the names of residents who "signed the petition sent to Governor [George] Wallace," and the names of the employers of the signers.
E.D. Nixon article reprints
A collection of reproductions of articles concerning E.D. Dixon, the organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott.
President Frank A. Rose Records
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.
The Injustice of Poll Taxes Broadside
University of Alabama Reel to Reel Collection
What the South Means to the Nation Report
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.