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Steward's Mate, 1st Class, US Naval Reserves Richard Williams.
A Friday, July 6, 1945 Florence Herald report that Florence native, Slater graduate and International Minerals and Chemicals Corp. employee, Steward's Mate, 1st Class, USNR Richard Williams was in Service as part of the Hawaiian Sea Frontier command…
Receives Son's Award
A Friday, May 5, 1944 Florence Herald report that Florence resident Mr. McKinley Brooks, a custodian at the Wilson Dam powerhouse had just received the Purple Heart awarded posthumously to his son, Steward Mate 1/c, US Navy William Brooks, who died…
War Bond Drives and Rallies in Florence-Lauderdale's Black Community During World War II.
A series of Florence Herald articles and advertisements for war bond rallies and parades in the African-American community of Florence-Lauderdale during World War II.
Lauderdale County African-American Draftees Called to Service During World War II
A series of Florence Herald notices from the 1940s listing the names of African-American men of Lauderdale County ordered to report for military service.
Local Graduates of a US Army Air Force Radio Operators and Mechanics Course at Fort Scott, Illinois.
1. A Thursday, June 14, 1943 Florence Herald Notice from the column "Our Boys in the Service" that Florence native Cpl. Clarence J. Simpson was recently a member of the first Negro graduating class of Scott Field, Illinois' radio operators and…
M. P. Graduate
A January 10, 1957 Florence Herald biographical sketch of Florence native Pvt. Shelby H. Green, US Army, who had recently graduated from the Military Police Training Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
A Pointless and Stupid Act
A Thursday, October 9, 1958 Florence Herald editorial on the recent dynamiting of a school in Clinton, Tennessee in which 11 Black children were students along with 850 white children, an act the Herald called "pointless and stupid," and which it…
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…
Nothing to be Proud Of
A Thursday, August 14, 1958 Florence Herald editorial on the recent fatal beating of an African-American prisoner in Water Valley, Mississippi by the county sheriff and and his subsequent acquittal by a white jury.
Founded in 1886 as the Florence…
Negro Veteran Dies in Lima, Ohio; Buried Here
The Thursday, July 19, 1951 Florence Herald obituary of 29 year-old Florence native and World War II veteran Charlie Spencer Ragland, of Lima, Ohio. Spencer's funeral was conducted at the Zion Baptist Church and he was buried in the Peters Cemetery…
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