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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