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Crime Notices from the Lauderdale Times and Florence Times-Journal from 1871-1874 Involving Local African-Americans
A Collection of Crimes Notices, Jurors' Lists, etc., from the Lauderdale Times and Florence Times-Journal newspapers involving African-Americans.
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 Killing of Sheffield, Alabama Resident Autrey Broaden on January 5, 1927.
A Series of documents chronicling the shooting of Autry Broaden by Officer MJ Mitchell on January 5, 1927.
According to noted Yale Professor of Music and Sheffield, Alabama native Willie Ruff on pages 22-23 of his autobiography A Call to Assembly,…
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 (AL) Herald, 1900-1903.
A series of Florence (AL) Herald crime reports involving local African-Americans, 1900-1903.
Founded in 1886 as the bi-weekly Florence Wave, which a few years later became a weekly, by 1900 one of two papers published in Florence, in 1900 WM…
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 from the 1920s Involving African-Americans Part II
A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests, and trials involving Shoals area (Colbert, Lauderdale, Franklin Counties) African-Americans from the 1920s.
Founded in 1886 as the bi-weekly Florence Wave, by 1920 one of two papers published…
Crime Reports from the Florence Herald from the 1920s Involving African-Americans Part I
A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests, and trials involving Shoals area (Colbert, Lauderdale, Franklin Counties) African-Americans from the 1920s.
Founded in 1886 as the bi-weekly Florence Wave, by 1920 one of two papers published…
The Mob in Kentucky
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 storm the courtroom where a Black citizen was on trial for his life, which resulted in soldiers in…
Crime Reports from the Florence Herald in the 1930s Involving African-Americans Part II
A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests, and trials involving Shoals area (Colbert, Lauderdale, Franklin Counties) African-Americans from the 1930s.
Founded in 1886 as the bi-weekly Florence Wave, by 1930 one of two papers…
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