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TB Mortality Rate is High in Negroes
A 1951 article reporting on the high mortality rate from the tuberculosis epidemic among the African-American population of Alabama.
"Progress of the Negro Race"
This is a newspaper article chronicling the progress made by African Americans in the Shoals region from 1914.
"Dr. A.D. Bellamy having cottage built for Luke Randle"
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,…
"Funds Sought For Negro Boy Scouts"
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.
Newspaper cutout of Handy fest picture
Picture of Bob Goldston and Betty McCarty riding in a car during the 'Street Strut'
"Family Ford ranked at top"
This is an article from the June 3, 2001 Times Daily newspaper that discusses Bob Goldston's business being mentioned in Black Enterprise Magazine.
2017 Alpha Gents Induction Ceremony Program
The item is a program for the 2017 Alpha Gents Induction Ceremony Program.
The lynchings of William Bird and George Whiteside, November 1918.
This is a collection of newspaper articles relating to the lynching of William Bird and George Whiteside in November of 1918. Whiteside, who allegedly confessed to the murder of a Sheffield policeman, was lynched on November 12. Bird, whose…
"Negro Man Killed: Another Brutal Murder to Darken our Record"
This is an article about the murder of John Gordon by Percy Ingram on the Coffee plantation three miles west of Florence. The article mentions that Ingram had left along with other African Americans from the Reserve (in the Bend of the River area of…
Man whipped in Sheffield
This is a brief newspaper clipping about a man who was in jail in Sheffield for a violation of the labor license ordinance. The man was taken from jail, whipped, and ordered to leave the city.
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