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`Welcome to Shoals Black History`

Featured Item

Fan for Trenholm High School Reunion

This is a fan printed for the Trenholm High School Reunion.

Featured Collection

Sports and Recreation

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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

House Burned Fri. Night

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A Friday, March 8, 1940 Florence Herald Report that the one-and-a-half story frame house at Stewart's Springs owned by African-American resident Emma…

Negro Loses Leg

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A Friday, June 28, 1935 Muscle Shoals Labor Advocate report that African-American resident of Florence Willis Reeder, a TVA employee, had a leg…

Went Up in Smoke

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A Friday, January 23, 1903 Florence Herald report of a fire which destroyed the home of Mr. Jeff Morgan, near Stewart's Springs, just north of town.…