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This is a newspaper article about a conference for African American farmers in the Shoals area. The conference was held at Burrell Normal School and…
This is a newspaper article about Edith Davis, playmate of Helen Keller.
This is a photograph taken by Jack Delano in 1942 that features a worker at the Reynolds Metal Company, a corporation that located in Sheffield after…
This is a newspaper photograph of Arnett Blue hauling cotton to the R.A. Mitchell Gin in a cart pulled by a mule in 1964.
This is a newspaper photo of a group of black employees at Reynolds Metals Company. The men were attending a banquet for black workers who had been…
This is a newspaper article and photo with Charlie Burgess, who is receiving an award after becoming the first African American to complete the gas…
A Thursday, December 21, 1961 *Florence Herald* editorial reporting on the construction of and urging local support for the 20 patient Springhill…
This is a newspaper article about Tommy Wallace, a blacksmith in Florence.
This is a partial list of the 2004 edition of the "Black Enterprise" BE 100.
A Friday, March 28, 1919 Florence Times report that at 2 am "on Tuesday morning last," TM Rogers of Rogers Dept. Store in Florence, being awakened by…
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"Our Colored Farmers"
"Resident give account of Helen Keller's childhood"
"Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Pouring aluminum into pig molds at the cast house."
"Still Around"
"Ten Year Men"
"TVA Honors 1st Negro Apprentice"
"Two Lauderdale Enterprises"
"Village Blacksmith Going Strong"
2004 "Black Enterprise" BE 100s list
A Nest of Thieves