Elections
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Pickett Springs, Alabama, city records
Collection
Identifier: W-0027
Abstract
Ballots, voting lists, city council minutes, oaths of office, and correspondence related to elections in the town of Pickett Springs, Alabama, and a map of the area.
Dates:
1888 - 1920
Sumter County, Alabama, Election Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1625
Abstract
This collection contains local, state, and federal election returns for Sumter County, Alabama, from 1834 to 1863.
Dates:
1834 - 1863
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