Segregation -- Alabama
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3677
Abstract
Items relating to Alabama places, politics and segregation.
Dates:
unknown
Harry Mell Ayers papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0097
Abstract
Contains the correspondence of this New Deal Democrat and Civil Rights supporter who owned the newspaper, the Anniston Star. The correspondence deals with local, state, and national political campaigns, elections, education, civil rights, editorials, letters to the editor, and events of the times. The collection also contains personal correspondence with other newspapermen, educators, and statesmen; copies of editorials and clippings on Alabama politics, Anniston, education, the Federal...
Dates:
1918-1956
Integration
Record Group
Identifier: RG-030
Abstract
Material related to the 1963 integration of The University of Alabama by Vivian Malone and James Hood.
Dates:
1963
John Crommelin to William F. Knowland Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4736
Scope and Contents
This typed letter, sent by retired Admiral John G. Crommelin in his role as trustee of the Elmore County White Citizens' Council (Wetumpka, Alabama), is addressed to Senator William Knowland regarding the Civil Rights Bill that Knowland had sponsored. In the letter, Crommelin accuses Jewish individuals of promoting the bill and claims that Knowland was influenced to sponsor it. He protests the construction of National Guard armories in Alabama, asserting that they could be staffed by federal...
Dates:
1957 March 8
P. H. P. Typed Diaries and Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4064
Abstract
Typed diary of a northern women who moved to Alabama when her husband was relocated to an Army base there.
Dates:
c. 1950
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