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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…
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…
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…
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…
Articles on the 1946 Boswell Amendment to the Alabama Constitution
A series of newspaper articles discussing the proposed Boswell Amendment to the Alabama Constitution of 1946.
Section 181 of the Alabama constitution allowed a citizen to register to vote if either they or their spouse owned at least $300 worth…
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.
"List of Qualified Voters, Lauderdale County, Alabama [April 3, 1958]."
A Florence Herald April 3, 1958 List of Qualified Voters of Lauderdale County, Alabama.
"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…
"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…
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