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Collection: The Law, Crime and Punishment
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Crime Notices involving Local African-Americans 1865-1870 from the Florence Journal and Literary Index.
A Series of articles involving local African-Americans accused of crimes or victims of crimes, as reported by the Florence Journal. and Literary Index
The Florence Journal was founded ca. September or October of 1865 by Florence educator and…
The June 18, 1966 Shootings of Rev. Robert Gregory and Dewey Armstrong at Morning Side MB Church
A Series of newspaper articles chronicling the Saturday, June 18, 1966 shooting of Rev. Robert Gregory, pastor of Morning Side Missionary Baptist Church, 526 Blair Street, East Florence, and parishioner Dewey Armstead.
The shootings occurred…
Crime Reports from the Florence Banner, Florence Gazette, Florence North Star and Lauderdale News from the 1880s involving African-Americans.
A series of newspaper crime reports from the Florence Banner, Florence Gazette, and Florence North Star from the 1880s.
Crime Reports from the Florence Herald in the 1940s
A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests and trials involving African-Americans from the Shoals area (Colbert, Franklin and Lauderdale) in the 1950s.
Founded in 1886 as the bi-weekly Florence Wave, by 1940, Marcy B. Darnall was…
Crime Reports from the Florence Herald in the 1950s
A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests and trials involving African-Americans from the Shoals Area (Colbert, Franklin, and Lauderdale Counties) from the 1950s.
Founded in 1886 as the bi-weekly Florence Wave, by the 1950s Marcy B.…
False Reports of a July 17, 1897 Lynching of Rev. NL Edmondson of St. Paul AME Church, Florence.
A series of national newspaper articles reporting on the supposed July 17, 1897 lynching of Rev. NL Edmondson of Florence, Alabama in the wake of the July 16, Anthony "Bull" Williams lynching at West Point, Tennessee and Rev. Edmondson's letter to…
Newspaper Jurors Lists for Lauderdale County
A series of late 19th and early 20th century Lauderdale County newspaper jurors lists on which African-Americans served.
Blacks were routinely noted by a ( c ) for "colored" beside their name however the papers were not always consistent in doing…
Sylvester Wilson Killed While Resisting Arrest
A Florence Times and Florence Herald article reporting the 3:30 am Thursday morning, September 11, 1919 shooting death of African-American resident of Memphis Tennessee, Sylvester Wilson, while resisting arrest.
While making his rounds East…
A Midnight Row
A Friday, September 23, 1898 Florence Herald report of the midnight, September 23, arrest of African-American resident of Florence Sandy Simpson, who was arrested after he allegedly attacked a woman who had earlier left his company because of his…
An African-American Grocery Store Robbed
A Thursday, May 16, 1895 Florence Gazette report of the robbery "a few nights ago" by two African-American boys named "Persons" [sic] and "Moor" [sic] of a grocery store in the basement of the Farmer Block in Florence owned by an unnamed Black…
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