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A July 23, 1872 *Lauderdale Times* report of the July 22 sentencing of Alfred Johnson in the Mayor's Court of Florence to the tune of $10 and court…
An August 13, 1872 report of the August 9 session of the Mayor's Court in Florence at which African-American resident Ellen Amonett was charged with…
An August 13, 1872 *Lauderdale Times* report of the arrest of Geo. Howel [sic] for assaulting Reuben Walker with a pop-gun at the Memphis & Charleston…
A June 26, 1873 Tuscumbia North Alabamian article reporting that upon the request of the Governor of Tennessee, Marshal County, Tennessee…
A Thursday, May 4, 1876 Tuscumbia, AL North Alabamian article reporting the incarceration, on "Saturday last" of Richard West, in default of $300…
A Series of 1874, 1875 and 1876 Florence Gazette, Florence Times-Journal and Tuscumbia North Alabamian newspaper articles chronicling the arrest,…
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…
A series of newspaper articles and other documents chronicling the November, 1878 murder of of black Florence resident Tobe Irvine in Key's billiard…
December, 1879 Florence Gazette notice stating that according to Jas. J. Olive, "last Saturday" an unnamed Negro man was killed on the Dillahunty…
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Alfred Johnson Fined $10 and Court Costs in Mayor's Court
Mayor's Court
Bound Over
"A Requisition"
Richard West Committed to the Colbert County Jail on the Charge of Perjury
The Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Appeal and Execution of African-American James Boddie, alias James White, for the Alleged Attempted Rape of Artelia Little, a White Woman, at Colbert's Reserve in Lauderdale County in September of 1874. Part I:
The Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Appeal and Execution of African-American James Boddie, alias James White, for the Alleged Attempted Rape of Artelia Little, a White Woman, at Colbert's Reserve in Lauderdale County in September of 1874. Part II:
Jim Boddie, "Back Again into the Jaws of Death"
The Murder of Tobe Irvine and the Subsequent Trial and Sentencing of John Mayfield and Alex Jones and Mayfield's Execution by Hanging
Negro Man Killed on the Dillahunty Place