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"You and Civil Rights"
This is an advertisement for a TV editorial program hosted by noted Alabama civic leader and businessman James D. "Jim" Martin, scheduled for 10:30 pm, Monday night, March 2, 1964 on WOWL-TV 15 (Florence's NBC affiliate station from the 1960s to the…
King Full of Hope, Despair
A Saturday, February 28, 1970 report of speeches given by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and father of slain Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Friday night, at First Baptist…
Negro Author Gives Speech in Sheffield
Wednesday, November 20, 1968 *Tri-Cities Daily* report of a speech given at the Sheffield, AL Community Center to an audience of some 400 people by black author and former undercover FBI agent (for nine years) Mrs. Julia Brown. In her speech titled…
Julian Bond Speaks at Florence State University
Students Dig Drugs, not Politics: Bond
A Tuesday, May 18 1971 *Florence Times-Tri-Cities Daily* advertisement for Georgia State Legislator and Civil Rights activist Julian Bond, the guest speaker of the Florence State Convocation Committee, speaking on "What's Next" Tuesday, May 18, at…
Wendell Wilkie Gunn's Enrollment at Florence State.
Articles from local papers chronicling the September, 1963 enrollment at Florence State College of African-American student Wendell Wilkie Gunn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Gunn of Tuscumbia, AL.
Gunn, FSC's first black student, transferred to…
"List of Qualified Voters, Lauderdale County [March, 1922]"
A March 31, 1922 Florence Times list of qualified voters of Lauderdale County, Alabama.
In 1920 there were 7, 669 white males 21 years of age or older in Lauderdale County and 2, 307 black males 21 years and older; of these black males of voting…
"List of Qualified Voters, Lauderdale County [April, 1930]"
An April 11, 1930 list of qualified voters of Lauderdale County, Alabama.
In 1930 the total black population of Lauderdale county was 7, 782 with a total white population of 33, 222 and 2,751 blacks and 8,900 whites in Florence. In April of 1930…
Shoals Transit Integrates Its Buses in April of 1956
A series of articles from May and November of 1956 reporting on the April 29, 1956 integration of its buses by Shoals Transit in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling outlawing the segregation of buses.
Shoals Transit, headquartered in…
Recent Survey Shows a Higher Percentage Per Capita of Registered Black Voters than Registered White Voters in Lauderdale County in 1959.
A May 21, 1959 Florence Herald article reporting that "according to a recent survey" in Lauderdale County per capita there is a higher percentage of registered black voters than white voters. Out of 17,000 registered voters, 20 per cent, or 3,400 are…
Future of the American Negro
A Wonderful Man
A Thursday, May 19, 1900 Florence Herald review of Prof. Booker T. Washington's book "The Future of the American Negro" and a short endorsement of Washington by the paper.
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