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A Thursday, July 1, 1901 Florence Herald column reporting on the news from Florence's African-American community.
A Florence Herald Thursday, June 30, 1955 notice/schedule for the free tuberculosis screening clinics in Florence-Lauderdale, including the Burrell…
This is a collection of articles related to the original Ku Klux Klan that formed just after the Civil War. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in late…
The original Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee and disbanded in 1869. The Klan was reborn in 1915 near Atlanta, Georgia, in…
A May 5, 1896 letter to the editor of the Florence, Alabama Florence Times by Rev. SM Harkins of Birmingham, Alabama, praising the Florence Times as…
A series of Florence Herald and Florence Times articles reporting on the open house of the WC Handy Library on Monday night, March 22, 1948.…
This is a newspaper advertisement for a book designed for African American children.
This is a newspaper advertisement for an Emancipation day service held at the Baptist church in Tuscumbia.
These are beauty product ad from 1903. One ad is for a hair straightener, the other for a skin lightener/hair straightener.
This article from June 10, 1909 recounts the arrest of "seven or eight" African-American bootleggers who were arraigned in police court on Saturday on…
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In Colored Circles
"Get A Free Chest X-Ray for Tuberculosis."
Original Klan Activity in the Shoals Area
The Second Ku Klux Klan in The Shoals Area
"A Colored Minister"
The WC Handy Negro Library
"Floyd's Flowers, or Duty and Beauty: A Book For Colored Children"
Emancipation Ceremony services
Beauty product advertisements: "Curly hair made straight," and "black skin remover."
"Bootleggers on Trial."