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`Welcome to Shoals Black History`

Featured Item

Photos from the opening of Vogue House of Beauty

These photographs were taken at the opening of Vogue House of Beauty in 1985.

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

"The first jury of colored men in Lauderdale County" / The death of Sam Anderson

This is a newspaper clipping about the death of Sam Anderson, who was found dead in Cypress Creek. Hilton Key, Sydney DePriest, and Anderson Hine were…

Negro Shot

Negro Shot FH Fri Apr 3 1931 p 5.jpg

A Friday, April 3, 1931 Florence Herald report of the shooting of African-American Roy Burge with a .45 caliber Winchester rifle by African-American…

Prisoners of War Relatives Meet.

Prisoners of War Relatives Meet FH Fri May 4 1945 p 7.jpg

A Friday, May 4, 1945 Florence Herald report of the meeting at the American Red Cross headquarters at the Elks Club in Florence on the previous…