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"Never forget: Marchers, speakers say King's past important to the future."
This is a newspaper article about the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Tuscumbia in 2006.
"Possible Local 'Sit-In' Attempt Reported Today"
This is a newspaper article about Charlie Brown, who ordered a sat at the counter at Spalding Drug and was arrested.
"Radio State Manager To Ask For Jobless Plan"
This is a newspaper article about Bob Carl Bailey's invitation to meet with Gov. Fob James about unemployment in the Shoals region in 1980. Bailey was appointed by James to the Small Business Program two months later.
"Republican Convention"
This is a newspaper clipping about a meeting of the Lauderdale County Republicans, called by Young A. Wallace. Prof. Wallace (1847-1937) was a local black teacher of the Florence District School for Negroes, the Carpenter School, and principal of…
"The Mass Meeting and Barbecue at Florence"
This is an account of a political rally in Florence in 1872.
"Westside Residents 'Put Faith in Mayor' After Called Meeting"
This is a newspaper article about a meeting called by black residents to voice concerns over the city's policing tactics in the black neighborhoods of the city.
1882 election
This is a newspaper clipping from 1882, concerning election results.
About 16,000 Voters on Lauderdale's Poll List
A Thursday, April 3, 1958 Florence Herald report that there were currently 16,000 registered voters in Lauderdale County, with 697, approximately 4 percent of that total, being African-American.
The next year, on May 21, 1959 the Herald would…
African-American Involvement in the 1890 Congressional Election for the US House of Representatives in Lauderdale County.
A series of Friday, November 7, 1890, Saturday, November 8, 1890 Florence Times and Florence Herald articles reporting on African-American voters of Florence-Lauderdale in the November, 1890 election which saw Democrat Joe Wheeler defeat Republican…
Alabama constitutional convention of 1901
These are articles relating to the 1901 Alabama constitutional convention, which effectively disenfranchised most African Americans in Alabama.
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