African Americans -- Alabama
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Oscar W. Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0010
Abstract
Correspondence of this Birmingham, Alabama, minister of the A.M.E. Zion Church, principally concerning the struggle to remain solvent during the Great Depression. Also includes budget sheets, receipts, reports, and legal documents for this and other A.M.E churches throughout the South.
Dates:
1909 - 1952
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
Athelyne Celest Banks Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4105
Overview
Papers that document the life of a prominent African American educator in Decatur, Alabama.
Dates:
1889-2008
Charlie J. Black papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Overview
Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.
Dates:
1985-1987
Brown Hill School Trustees' minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0217
Overview
Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.
Dates:
1916-1924
Calhoun School Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0260
Overview
Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.
Dates:
1891-1923
Ephraim Madison Henry papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0114
Overview
Correspondence, concert programs, and other documents from this Tuskegee Institute graduate
Dates:
1930-1947
Lillian Graves Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4316
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twelve letters written by governess Lillian Graves from October 1885 through February 1886 as Graves cared for the Woodward family children in post-Civil War Alabama. Graves describes daily and holiday activities in late nineteenth-century Alabama, visiting the Woodward Iron Company mine, and makes extensive and problematic remarks about African Americans living in the Woodward home and in the area.
Dates:
October 1885-February 1886
Jennie B. Scott Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4108
Overview
Papers of a freeborn African American family who lived in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama, in the latter half of the nineteenth century and through the mid-1960s
Dates:
1910-1965
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 April - May
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
William B. Shirdan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1266
Abstract
Letters from this African American soldier who served in the 310th Quartermaster Railhead Company during World War II to his family in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
1944 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945