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Wallace Answers Callaway Article
In February of 1921, a controversy involving local African-American educator Prof. Young A. Wallace (1848-1937) erupted when local white physician Dr. William J. Callaway (1879-1939), a member of the county medical society, writing to the local…
"The lynching spirit seems to be reviving."
"The lynching spirit seems to be reviving."
A Saturday, May 4, 1895 Florence Times editorial blurb by editor Moncure W. Camper noting that lynching seemed to be on the rise and that "where lynching prevails a comparatively low state of…
"The first jury of colored men in Lauderdale County" / The death of Sam Anderson
This is a newspaper clipping about the death of Sam Anderson, who was found dead in Cypress Creek. Hilton Key, Sydney DePriest, and Anderson Hine were among the jurors.
In Colored Circles
A Thursday, July 1, 1901 Florence Herald column reporting on the news from Florence's African-American community.
"Get A Free Chest X-Ray for Tuberculosis."
A Florence Herald Thursday, June 30, 1955 notice/schedule for the free tuberculosis screening clinics in Florence-Lauderdale, including the Burrell High School and Carver Homes Community Center for black residents.
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…
"A Colored Minister"
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 among other things, "broad and liberal, and has thus begotten a spirit of justice that would do…
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…
"Floyd's Flowers, or Duty and Beauty: A Book For Colored Children"
This is a newspaper advertisement for a book designed for African American children.
Emancipation Ceremony services
This is a newspaper advertisement for an Emancipation day service held at the Baptist church in Tuscumbia.
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