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Crime Reports from the Florence Herald in the 1940s
A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests and trials involving African-Americans from the Shoals area (Colbert, Franklin and Lauderdale) in the 1950s.
Founded in 1886 as the bi-weekly Florence Wave, by 1940, Marcy B. Darnall was…
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…
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.
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…
Negro Veteran to be Buried Today
The December 20, 1951 Florence Herald obituary of Florence native Pvt. James Brannon, killed in action in Korea in August of 1951.
Crime Reports from the Florence Herald in the 1950s
A series of Florence Herald reports of crimes, arrests and trials involving African-Americans from the Shoals Area (Colbert, Franklin, and Lauderdale Counties) from the 1950s.
Founded in 1886 as the bi-weekly Florence Wave, by the 1950s Marcy B.…
Lauderdale County's Rosenwald Schools
A Series of Newspaper Articles and other documents on the Rosenwald Schools of Lauderdale County
"Aunt" Jessie Thomas, Cook of the Capt. Arthur H. Keller Family
Jessie Messenger Hart Thomas was the cook for the Arthur H. Keller family of Tuscumbia, in Colbert County, Alabama; her 1939 obituary notes that "among the many white children nursed by 'Aunt' Jessie was the renowned Miss Helen Keller, native of…
False Reports of a July 17, 1897 Lynching of Rev. NL Edmondson of St. Paul AME Church, Florence.
A series of national newspaper articles reporting on the supposed July 17, 1897 lynching of Rev. NL Edmondson of Florence, Alabama in the wake of the July 16, Anthony "Bull" Williams lynching at West Point, Tennessee and Rev. Edmondson's letter to…
Newspaper Jurors Lists for Lauderdale County
A series of late 19th and early 20th century Lauderdale County newspaper jurors lists on which African-Americans served.
Blacks were routinely noted by a ( c ) for "colored" beside their name however the papers were not always consistent in doing…
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