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`Welcome to Shoals Black History`

Work in the Shoals

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

Sports and Recreation

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

Photographs from the time a Greyhound bus got stuck in the Burrell Slater parking lot

These are photographs of a Greyhound bus carrying tourists that got stuck in the Burrell Slater parking lot. The tourists were visiting the W.C. Handy…

"'Progress' Kills W.C. Handy's Church"

This is a newspaper article about the relocation of W.C. Handy's boyhood church from downtown Florence to West Florence in 1967.

Recently Added Items

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Negroes Called by Draft Board No. 2.

A Friday, July 10, 1942 Florence (AL) Herald notice that a group of approximately 30 Black men from Lauderdale County had been ordered by Local Draft…

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Charles Allen, Negro, Killed in Action

A Friday, December 11, 1945 Florence (AL) Herald notice that Florence native and Burrell-Slater grad., Mess Attendant, First Class Charles Allen…

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T/4 Eddie L. Callahan, US Army

A Friday, December 7, 1945 Florence (AL) notice from "Our Men and Women in the Armed Service" that Technician, Fourth Grade, Eddie L. Callahan, a…