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The Second Ku Klux Klan in The Shoals Area
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 the wake of Thomas Dickson's 1905 novel "The Clansman" and the 1915 DW Griffith film adaptation "The…
The Second Ku Klux Klan in Florence
This is a collection of articles related to the Second Ku Klux Klan that was popular in the 1920s. According to Florence historian Lee Freeman: "Despite Ed. Camper's editorials Florence had a Klan chapter by 1923 which seems not to have done very…
The Passing Parade
The Thursday, September 17, 1953 edition of Florence (AL) Herald editor Harold S. May's "The Passing Parade" column, which contained short biographical sketches of several notable "old time" Florentines, including African-American residents Rev.…
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…
The lynching of William Bird and George Whiteside in Sheffield, Alabama
This is an excerpt from a dissertation about lynching; the transcript relates to two lynchings that happened in Sheffield, Alabama in 1918.
The lynching of George Ware
These are several newspaper articles related to the lynching of George Ware in 1883. Ware admitted to killing and robbing an orphan boy named Robert Bethune, a former employee of the Muscle Shoals Canal, whose age was variously reported as "between…
The Hicks Family Home, 426 East Alabama Street
This is a Florence Main Street calendar with a picture and write-up of the home of Dr. Leonard Jerry Hicks, an African American doctor in Florence.
The Florence Plan 1968, showing map of residential segregation
This is a page from "the Florence Plan: The Plan for the Future Development of the Florence Urban Area." that shows residential segregation in Florence. The African American population in Florence traditionally lived on the west side, west of Locust…
The Falsely Reported Lynching of Reverend Edmondson
(1) This is a newspaper article about the falsely reported lynching of Reverend Edmondson, who was alleged to have concealed Anthony "Bull" Williams, lynched a few days before in connection with the murder of a girl near Westpoint, TN. Edmondson was…
The Black Community at Stewart's Springs
A series of documents and old Florence newspaper articles chronicling the Black community of the Stewart's Springs neighborhood of West Florence.
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