This article from June of 1929 reports an altercation between Robert H. Walker, a white government employee from Memphis on a visit home to his brother Andrew Walker's, and a group of between eight and ten black men near the entrance to the O'Neal Plantation on Gunwaleford Road, two miles west of Florence. Walker, accompanied by his mother and sister, alleged that his way was blocked by the blacks and their car, and that on exiting his vehicle he was met with abusive language and forced to defend himself with an automobile crank, after which two of the blacks fired at him. Five black men were arrested by the sheriff--Percy Body (Boddie), Joe Allen Thompson, William Rowell, Charles Ingram, and Nelson Crittendon, with Body and Rowell placed in jail on a $1,000 bond each, charged with assault with intent to murder. ]]> This Florence Herald article was reprinted from the Sheffield Reaper and reports the Monday, October 1, 1906 jailbreak of black prisoners George Gilliam, Les Williamson, Otis Johnson and John Buchanan from the Colbert County jail in Tuscumbia, AL.]]> ]]> This article reports the arrest of 18 year-old black youths Sam Robinson and Monroe Rowell on the charge of breaking and entering the Southern Tire Co. on Thursday night.]]> Reports the August 24, 1958 shotgun slaying of black resident Andy Southern by fellow black Florence resident and TVA employee Lemuel Vaughn, who mistook Southern for an unidentified white man allegedly having an affair with his wife. Vaughn admitted he "shot the wrong man" and waived preliminary hearing and his bond was set at $5,000.]]>
"Klan March Peaceful," pts I and II.

"Blacks Say Klan Someone Else's Problem to Face."

"Blacks Protest KKK Headquarters" pts. I and II.

"Klan Opens Headquarters in Tuscumbia." ]]>
This is a series of articles from the Times Daily of July, 1980 on the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and its efforts to relocate its national headquarters to Tuscumbia, in Colbert County, Alabama.]]>
Times Daily, Sunday, July 27, 1980, pp I and II.

Times Daily, Sunday, July 27, 1980, p 3.

Times Daily, Thursday, July 31, 1980, p. .1

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A 1951 article reporting on the high mortality rate from the tuberculosis epidemic among the African-American population of Alabama.]]> December 13, 1951]]> This is a newspaper article chronicling the progress made by African Americans in the Shoals region from 1914.]]> 1914-01-09]]> This is a newspaper article about a house that Dr. A.D. Bellamy had constructed for Luke Randall. According to Florence historian Lee Freeman, "Dr. Alfred David "AD" Bellamy (1847-1913), a native of New York who graduated medical school in Chicago, came to Florence from Atlanta in 1889 with his Atlanta Wagon Works (he quit his medical practice due to a hearing disability and opened the wagon factory), which in February of 1889 became the Florence Wagon Factory and was in business from 1889 until 1941. Bellamy also founded the Bellamy Planing Mills in the 1890s. White carpenter and building contractor James R. McCluskey (1860-1939) was born in Lawrence County, AL and died in Memphis, Tennessee.

The article may have intended to note that AD Bellamy's Bellamy Planing Mills was the contractor who built the house, or possibly that Bellamy built the house as a rental property and Randall was his tenant.]]>
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This is an article about the development of a potential site for a camp for the Negro Boy Scouts, with money provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Carnegie Foundation of New York, and the Tennessee Valley Council of Boy Scouts.]]> 1946-03-22]]> Picture of Bob Goldston and Betty McCarty riding in a car during the 'Street Strut']]>