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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…
School Desegregation in Alabama
Several Florence Herald and Tri-Cities Daily articles from 1964 to 1966 reporting on the Desegregation of Alabama Schools, including efforts by Governor George Wallace to delay the enforcement of federal desegregation guidelines in Alabama schools.
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…
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…
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