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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

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

North Alabama Baptist Academy, Courtland, Alabama

The NABA Open Courtland Enterp Fri Oct 23 1896 p 3.jpg

A collection of regional newspaper articles on the North Alabama Baptist Academy (NABA), founded in 1896 in Courtland, Lawrence Co., Alabama by the…

Florence-Lauderdale's Negro Library

Negro Library to Open Mon Night FH Fri March 19 1948 p 1.jpg

A series of four Florence Herald and Florence Times articles reporting on the open house of Florence's Negro Library on Monday night, March 22, 1948.…

Jim Boddie, "Back Again into the Jaws of Death"

This is a newspaper article about Jim Boddie, who was apprehended for the alleged rape of a white woman. While Boddie was awaiting execution, he…