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`Welcome to Shoals Black History`

Featured Item

"St. Paul Is Visited By Her Bishop-1945"

This is a photograph of St. Paul Church in 1945.

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

Crime Reports from the Florence Herald from the 1920s Part II

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A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests, and trials involving Shoals area (Colbert, Lauderdale, Franklin Counties) African-Americans…

Crime Reports from the Florence Herald from the 1920s Part I

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A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests, and trials involving Shoals area (Colbert, Lauderdale, Franklin Counties) African-Americans…

The Mob in Kentucky

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A Thursday, February 19, 1920 Florence Herald editorial decrying mob law and lynching in the wake of the recent attempt of a white mob in Kentucky to…