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Government, Law and Politics

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

History of the Alabama Democratic Party Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3025
Abstract

Letters, poll lists, and ephemera relating to the Democratic Party of Alabama.

Dates: 1896-1946

Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
Abstract

This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.

Dates: 1886-1982

Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract

Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.

Dates: 1873

Bootlegging Court records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0188
Abstract

One ledger containing court records of cases relating to bootlegging and illegal distillery operations.

Dates: 1871-1881

Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0373
Abstract

A copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book, profusely annotated by Crenshaw with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886, and miscellaneous additional items.

Dates: circa 1835-1886

L. H. Crumpler records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0380
Abstract

A collection of records of Crumpler's general store in Sylacauga, Alabama, and of his activities as justice of the peace.

Dates: 1892-1909

Letter to Henry Holman Mize

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3013
Abstract

A letter to Henry Holman Mize discussing Judge James J. Mayfield of Tuscaloosa.

Dates: 1932 December 12

Charles H. Scott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3060
Abstract

Letters written to Charles H. Scott and others concerning Republican party politics in Alabama.

Dates: 1889-1906