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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…
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…
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.
Appalling
A Thursday, May 3, 1956 Colbert County Reporter (Tuscumbia, AL) reprint of a Brewton Standard editorial critical of the Supreme Court's ruling that segregation of buses was unconstitutional.
No stories on Shoals Transit's decision to integrate in…
"Think!"
Thursday, November 1, 1962 campaign ad sponsored by the Colbert and Lauderdale Democratic Campaign Committee, urging voters to "think before you vote and vote Democratic." The ad also advertises an upcoming Colbert Lauderdale Democratic Dinner to be…
Nothing to be Proud Of
A Thursday, August 14, 1958 Florence Herald editorial on the recent fatal beating of an African-American prisoner in Water Valley, Mississippi by the county sheriff and and his subsequent acquittal by a white jury.
Founded in 1886 as the Florence…
A Pointless and Stupid Act
A Thursday, October 9, 1958 Florence Herald editorial on the recent dynamiting of a school in Clinton, Tennessee in which 11 Black children were students along with 850 white children, an act the Herald called "pointless and stupid," and which it…
"Letters to the Editor"
A letter to the editor of the *Florence Herald* by Florence American Legion Post No. 11, containing the full text of a resolution passed by the Legion Post on April 9 and published on April 23, 1964, said resolution opposing "the Civil Rights Bill in…
"City to Help form Bi-Racial Committee"
"Negro Ministers Complain to Commissioners"
Two reports from the Florence Herald of 1963 on the formation of a bi-racial committee to study and make recommendations in regard to school desegregation and the subsequent complaint of Florence black ministers and committee members Rev. David…
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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