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Achievement Certificate for Bobby Goldston
Award given to Bobby Goldston and Family Ford Sales INC for outstanding business achievement. Award given by Black Enterprise Magazine
Letter from Dallas Brown to his mother, Zuma Brown of Cherokee.
This is a letter written by Sgt. Dallas Brown, stationed in San Fransisco, California, to his mother Zuma Brown in Cherokee, Alabama. It was written in 1944.
Percy Casey, death notices and funeral expenses
These are obituaries for Percy Casey from 1902, and a letter to the newspaper from his mother, Mary Casey, thanking the African American Knights of Pythias for donating fifty dollars towards Casey's funeral.
City of Florence commemoration letter for Joe Duster
This is a commemoration letter from the City of Florence to Joe Duster to recognize his book, Let Not Your Heart be Hardened, which chronicles his life and recounts his experience as the first African American firefighter in Florence.
People who you Don't Know
This is a list of Burrell graduates along with their achievements.
Milton Franklin
This is a newspaper article about Milton Franklin, who was a basketball and football coach at Sterling High School and, after integration, Sheffield High School.
Ed Hawkins' Head Tragically Caught in a Sorghum Mill
A November 12, 1879 Florence Gazette report of a tragic accident in which teenage African-American Ed Hawkins got his head caught in a sorghum mill, his head being caught between "the lever and a horizontal bar," crushing his left jaw-bone and…
John Moore Returns to Florence
An April 25, 1895 Florence Gazette article reporting that black brick mason John Moore, "who left here three or fours years ago for Oklahoma," had moved back to Florence, deciding that he was better off in Florence.
Uncle Jim Cross
A Thursday, June 26, 1890 Florence Gazette biographical sketch of Jim Cross, a former slave of Benjamin Cross. Jim was 81 years old in 1890 and still lived where he had lived with his master, nine miles east of Florence on the Huntsville Road, …
Negro Boy Killed by Being Run Over by a Wagon
A Thursday, July 11, 1895 Florence Gazette report that an unnamed Negro boy had been killed a few miles west of Florence "a few days ago" when a wagon ran over him.
The name of the boy and the precise date of the accident were not recorded by the…
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