Skip to main content
Menu
Browse Items
Browse Collections
Contact Us
Browse Exhibits
Shoals Black History on Facebook
Project Say Something
Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area
Contribute an Item
Map
Search using this query type:
Keyword
Boolean
Exact match
Search only these record types:
Item
File
Collection
Advanced Search (Items only)
Browse Items (212 total)
Browse All
Browse by Tag
Search Items
Collection: Community
Previous Page
Page
of 22
Next Page
Sort by:
Title
Creator
Date Added
Burrell Slater Subdivision Map
This is a map of the Burrell Slater subdivision from 1926
"A Card"
This is a letter from Florence liveryman John T. Farmer (ca. 1815-1893) thanking fellow liveryman Rush Patton, Sr. (ca. 1837-1907) and several other black citizens (John Turnley, William Thomas) for their help in extinguishing a recent fire which…
Negro Boys Rescue Two Aged Negro Women
A Thursday, September 3, 1953 Florence (AL) Herald article reporting that two young boys, Herman Ingram, 10 and Charles Butler, 12, had rescued two elderly women from a burning house on Campbell Street on Tuesday, September 1st.
Smallpox in Florence's African-American Community in 1865-1866.
A Series of records documenting the outbreak of smallpox in Florence in December of 1865-1866, with the first cases being reported in Florence's African-American community.
1942 Map of Florence, showing West Florence Neighborhood
…
In Colored Circles
A Thursday, July 1, 1901 Florence Herald column reporting on the news from Florence's African-American community.
Prominent Negro Educator Here Friday Night
A Florence Herald Thursday, October 2, 1919 notice that Friday afternoon, October 3, at 3:15 pm, Maj. Robert Russa Moton (1867-1940), principal of Tuskegee Institute, noted black educator and successor of Prof. Booker T. Washington, who had been…
The WC Handy Library
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. Originally simply the Florence Negro Library, the facility, a branch library of the Muscle Shoals Regional…
Relocation claims for the Top Hatters Club
These papers are relocation claims for the Top Hatters Club to move from their location at 512 E Reeder Street during the urban renewal project that relocated many black homes and businesses to make way for the new Dr. Hicks Boulevard.
Handy Heights Project
This is a booklet about the redesign of the Handy Heights neighborhood in 1954. The project cleared 26 acres of land (and 84 structures) in West Florence and brought public housing, an elementary school, and an African American housing development to…
Previous Page
Page
of 22
Next Page
Output Formats
atom
,
dc-rdf
,
dcmes-xml
,
json
,
omeka-xml
,
rss2