Segregation -- Alabama

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Items relating to Alabama places, politics and segregation.

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...

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Material related to the 1963 integration of The University of Alabama by Vivian Malone and James Hood.

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...

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Typed diary of a northern women who moved to Alabama when her husband was relocated to an Army base there.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a typescript petition (circa 1923-1925) addressed to Governor William W. Brandon and the Alabama State Legislature by Oscar W. Adams and eight other prominent African American citizens of Birmingham, Alabama. The petition opposes the inclusion of a “segregation clause” in a proposed zoning bill that sought to formalize racial separation in residential areas.It emphasizes the steady migration of African Americans out of Alabama, the role of civic neglect...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of six loose photo album pages containing approximately fifty-two black-and-white or sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs, each measuring around 3 x 3 inches. The images span the years 1902 to 1907 and document the life of a family in Alabama, likely connected to the Schuh-Miller Lumber Company in Selma. Early photographs depict industrial scenes including a log train, the company’s first office, and the lumber yard, suggesting the photographer may have been one of...

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...