African Americans
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:
George Corley Wallace Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-210
Abstract
Thirty black and white photographs depicting George Wallace at the University of Alabama 1973 19 November during the homecoming activities. It was the Alabama versus Georgia homecoming football game, and Terry Points was the first African American awarded homecoming queen.
Dates:
1973-11-19
Good Samaritan Hospital's School of Nursing Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2021-006
Overview
One photographic album containing images and ephemera related to Gertrude Owens' time as a student at the Good Samaritan Hospital's Nursing School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dates:
1951
Green Family Photographs and Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4285
Overview
A collection of photographs and ephemera belonging to the Green family of Roanoke and Wedowee, Alabama.
Dates:
1890 - 1972
Bird Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0596
Overview
Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.
Dates:
1805-1885
Group of people looking at a document, 1956 February
Item — Box 38034.001: [1006241591], Folder: 2010.021.000008
Identifier: 2010.021.000008
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Photographs of Autherine Lucy attending The University of Alabama in February 1956. Lucy was the first African American student admitted to the school. University administrators expelled her after a few tumultuous days on campus.
Dates:
1956 February
Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards
Collection
Identifier: 2014-004
Abstract
Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.
Dates:
1874 - 1950
Jere Haralson letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0625
Overview
Letter written in 1876 by African American member of Congress from Alabama to the United States Centennial Commission in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, requesting an additional invitation for his wife to attend the opening of the Centennial International Exhibition of Industry.
Dates:
1876 April 27
Hugh Young Topographical Memoir on East and West Florida
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4280
Overview
This collection contains a handwritten copy of A Topographical Memoir on East and West Florida with Itineraries, a report written by US Army engineer Hugh Young in preparation for General Andrew Jackson’s 1818 march into Pensacola, West Florida, during the First Seminole War.
Dates:
1818
J. E. Mulkin Collection of African American Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-027
Overview
This collection consists of 151 photographs and glass plate negatives of African Americans.
Dates:
1910 - 1920
James M. Research Materials for The Late Great Johnny Ace
Collection
Identifier: 2015-004
Overview
This collection consists of the research done by Dr. James M. Salem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, for his book, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R and B to Rock and Roll. Materials include audio and video recordings all pertaining to the larger context of African American Popular Culture in the 1950s.
Dates:
1930 - 1979
James Smith U.S. Army discharge papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0145
Overview
Military discharge forms for James Smith, a member of the United States Army's Tenth Cavalry Regiment, also known as "Buffalo Soldiers."
Dates:
1872-04 - 1872-05
Jo Tartt Jr. and Judith Tartt Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4303
Overview
Collection consists of a variety of materials related to the life of Jo Cowin Tartt Jr. and his wife, Judith Watkins Tartt. The materials are predominately focused on Mr. Tartt's childhood and various careers throughout his life. Of notable interest are his photographs of the Alabama Black Belt during the 1960s through the early 1980s, which depict life and living conditions in small-town Alabama after the Civil Rights movement. In addition to his photographs, other materials include journals,...
Dates:
1890 - 2019
Sylvester Jones scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3635
Overview
Two three-ring binders of material and two bound books (unpublished memory books, "Sylvester Jones: In Rememberance")
Dates:
1970s-1990s
Frederick D. Kennedy Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4182
Overview
Photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, and assorted memorabilia
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1864 - 1959
Aniece Ragland Kerr and Patricia Treelawner Banks Wade Tuskegee Institute Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4180
Overview
Tuskegee Institute memorabilia collected by two alumnae.
Dates:
1970 - 1991
Leola Dennis Photo Album of Utica (Mississippi) Normal and Industrial Institute
Collection
Identifier: 2020-007
Overview
One photographic album compiled by Leola Dennis containing seventy-one black-and-white photographs depicting life at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute during the early 1920s.
Dates:
1921 - 1924
"Mammy stories"
Collection
Identifier: W-0026
Overview
Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."
Dates:
between 1900 and 1920
Margaret Moore Photographic Album of Atlanta University Student Life
Collection
Identifier: 2020-006
Overview
One photographic album compiled by Margaret Moore containing eighty-four black-and-white photographs depicting life at Atlanta University between 1917 and 1920.
Dates:
1917 - 1920
Marjorie L. Smith Cotton Slides
Collection
Identifier: 2007-004
Overview
This collection contains seventy-one color slides depicting various stages of cotton production, taken by Marjorie L. Smith in and around Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama. Slides also show images of an African American church in Hayneville.
Dates:
1960 - 1965
Martha Young papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1597
Abstract
The collection contains many of the works, both published and unpublished, many in the dialect of Southern African Americans, written by Martha Young of Greensboro, Alabama, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, as well as correspondence, photographs and pictures, genealogical information on the Tutwiler and Young families, and other miscellaneous items. Martha Young was the granddaughter of Henry Tutwiler and niece of Julia Tutwiler.
Dates:
1867-1977
Mary Hairston Collection of Travel Ephemera from National Association of Colored Women (NACW) Convention
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4307
Overview
A collection of travel ephemera from a cross-country trip Mary Hairston took to attend the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in Los Angeles, California, in 1952.
Dates:
1952
Mary L. Scott Letters and Artwork - Letters, 1923-1948, 1923-1948
File — Box 4257.020: [1006214244], Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Letters to Mary L. Scott of Louisville, Kentucky, primarily from from Willis Wilson Jr. of Chicago, Illinois, discussing their romantic relationship and well wishes for success in her work at school. A letter from B. W. Hartley, Superintendent of Louisville Public Schools instructs her to report to work as a teacher. There is also a letter from Newton Ball of Boston, Massachusetts, writes about missing her correspondence and hopes she will write back.There is also a colored pen and...
Dates:
1923-1948
Mary L. Scott Letters and Artwork - Painting
File — Box 4257.026, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Letters to Mary L. Scott of Louisville, Kentucky, primarily from from Willis Wilson Jr. of Chicago, Illinois, discussing their romantic relationship and well wishes for success in her work at school. A letter from B. W. Hartley, Superintendent of Louisville Public Schools instructs her to report to work as a teacher. There is also a letter from Newton Ball of Boston, Massachusetts, writes about missing her correspondence and hopes she will write back.There is also a colored pen and...
Dates:
1803 - 1946
Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4289
Overview
This collection contains a diary and scrapbook kept by Ernestine Jones in 1951 when she went on a national tour as winner of the "Spirit of Cotton" competition held by the Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee, an annual African American festival in Memphis, Tennessee. It also contains four program books from the festival for the years 1951, 1952, 1954, and 1955.
Dates:
1951-1955
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Ford Letters, 1889-1893
File — Box 4257.002: [1006214227], Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
Two letters written to Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Ford, from Mrs. Ford's mother and another friend, filled with typical gossip, with one letter describing the rumor regarding an African American man at a local woman's house.
Dates:
1889-1893
Nearror Family Histories
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4189
Content Description
The Nearror family histories collection contains two items: The Nearror Family: the Life Story of Virginia C. S. Rankins and Nearror Family History. Lena Virginia (Ginger) Nearror Smith Rankins wrote her family history and life story in a spriral notebook, perhaps in the 1980s or 1990s. Her son, Oscar D. Tucker, edited and augmented her earlier writings in 2012, resulting in his published work, Nearror Family History. Both items document the history of the Nearror family, an African American...
Dates:
circa 1985 - 2012
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-003
Abstract
This collection consists of one thousand seventy five photographs depicting street scenes in Tuscaloosa, Selma, and other cities in Alabama; portraits of famous people: Will Chambers, Augusta Evans Wilson, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, Roger Lee, Booker T. Washington, Samuel M. Stafford, George C. Wallace, Carl Elliot, Sr., Winton M. Blount, Jefferson Davis, and many others. Also collection consists of numerous images of Alabama rivers steam boats, Joe Sewell and Lou Gehrig in 1933 World Series;...
Dates:
1823 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945
Paul Laurence Dunbar Letter, 1905 April 15
File — Box 4265.001: [1006233187], Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar writes from Dayton, Ohio, to Mr. Earl N. Hale, in Dayton, Ohio, in response to Hale's request for an autograph. Dunbar writes of a recent illness but expresses much pleasure at recovery and the opportunity to provide the autograph to Hale.
Dates:
1905 April 15
Pettigrew Family Carte de Visite
Collection
Identifier: 2014-026
Abstract
Carte de visite (CDV) of the Pettigrew family, along with an African American woman and a young boy.
Acc # 015-008
Dates:
1866
Photographic Album of an African American Family
Collection
Identifier: 2016-002
Abstract
Small rectangular photo album containing photographs of prominent African American family probably from around Washington, District of Columbia area.
Dates:
1910 - 1955
Photographs and Ephemera from African American Member of Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC)
Collection
Identifier: 2021-007
Overview
Collection consists of photographs and ephemera from an African American member of the Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC), most likely collected by either Miriam Wheeler or Herlyne Leonard.
Dates:
1943
Photographs of African American Tobacco Farmers
Collection
Identifier: 2021-005
Overview
Eighteen photographs depicting African American tobacco farmers near Petersburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1920 - 1960
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
Ragland Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2016-001
Abstract
17 images of Ragland family.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1940
Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract
The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...
Dates:
1797 - 1973
James M. Salem research materials for The Late Great Johnny Ace
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2494
Overview
This collection consists of the research done by Dr. James M. Salem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, for his book, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R and B to Rock and Roll. Materials include audio recordings, correspondence, research notes, and documents, all pertaining to the larger context of African American Popular Culture in the 1950s.
Dates:
1929-2003
Schaudies and Banks Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4190
Overview
Papers of two prominent mixed-race families in north Alabama.
Dates:
unknown
Schaudies-Banks-Ragland Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2014-021
Scope and Contents
Thirty seven framed photographs of African Americans in military uniforms, Border War, WWI, and WWII including portraits of Duncan Fields and Rubin Fields; portraits of women and families; large plaque with two photos of military men (Willie L. E. Means and James E. Means, date of their enlistment in the army).
Dates:
1898 - 1959
Searcy Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-035
Abstract
Photos of this Tuscaloosa family are in two photograph albums that contain images from and around The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa County, including Bryce Hospital, the Tuscaloosa Centennial celebrations, and Warrior River (bridge and flooding), and family activities.
Dates:
1870 - 1987
Septimus D. Cabaniss papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0252
Abstract
Legal and personal papers of the Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, attorney, S.D. Cabaniss, who served as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend. Also includes materials of other Huntsville attorneys and of the S.D. Cabaniss family.
Dates:
1820-1937
Shelby Iron Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract
Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth...
Dates:
1862-1930
Small group of people looking at a document, 1956 February
Item — Box 38034.001: [1006241591], Folder: 2010.021.000002
Identifier: 2010.021.000002
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Photographs of Autherine Lucy attending The University of Alabama in February 1956. Lucy was the first African American student admitted to the school. University administrators expelled her after a few tumultuous days on campus.
Dates:
1956 February
William Todd and John H. Bilks slave rental invoice
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2213
Abstract
A contract between William Todd and John H. Bilks employing hands of William Todd's estate for the commencement of a cotton gin.
Dates:
1841 - 1842
Tuscaloosa Cotton Gin and Sawmill Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-026
Abstract
Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.
Dates:
1938
Tuskegee Airmen Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1446
Abstract
Photocopied articles, clippings, press releases, programs, membership rosters, and memoirs relating to the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of men who participated in the first pilot training program for African-Americans during World War II.
Dates:
1983 - 1989
Two men in suits standing out outside, circa 1915
Item — Box 1: [1006063502], Folder: 14
Identifier: 2008.034.000014
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of 534 photographs from World War I, a drawing, and a short narrative.
Dates:
circa 1915
Two young boys and an African American woman, perhaps their nanny, in a wooded area, 1920s
Item
Identifier: 2009.002.000001
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of eighty-one black and white photographs depicting scenes from Seneca, Westminster, and Charleston, South Carolina. This collection also depicts members of an unidentified family, possibly from South Carolina.
Dates:
1920s
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
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
Victor Hugo Friedman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-020
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with ninety-nine photographs depicting Victor Hugo Friedman, a native of Tuscaloosa and local philanthropist, and his friends.
Dates:
1890 - 1899