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Featured Item

Teaching certificate for Hattie Watts from 1918

This item is a second grade teaching certificate for Hattie Watts, issued by the Department of Education from the State of Alabama, in 1918.

Featured Collection

Sports and Recreation

This collection contains items connected to recreational activities and sports as they relate to African American life in the Shoals.

Featured Exhibit

Work in the Shoals

This exhibit features photographs of people at work in the Shoals.

Recently Added Items

Negroes for Sale

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An advertisement from the Vicksburg (MS) Register of Thursday, September 1, 1836, for the sale of 110 slaves, including 85 in Grenada, Mississippi and…

Eight Abolitionist Societies in Alabama in the 1830s.

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1. Pages 87 and 92 of "Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the South; With Unpublished Letters from John Stuart Mill and Mrs. Stowe" by Stephen D. Weeks, Ph.D.…

Service Records of Private Anthony Brannon, Co H, 111th Infantry, United States Colored Troops (USCT)

Anthony Brannon (1843-1929), a son of Wilkins and Adline Brannon, one of about 30 men who served in USCT regiments from Lauderdale County, enlisted in…