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"A Hog Thief in Trouble"
An August 12, 1868 Florence, AL Literary Index newspaper article reporting on the arrest of freedman Jack Bailey of Florence for stealing a hog belonging to fellow-freedmen Abraham Rice and Lewis Moore.
After a hearing before Esq. Crow Bailey was…
"A Little History Making Aids Burrell's Mitchell"
This is an article about the leadup to a basketball game between the all-black Burrell-Slater High School team and the previously all-white Deshler High team from Tuscumbia.
"A Negro who Fled to Florence to Make Fortune, Succumbs"
This is a newspaper article about John C. Claybrook, who grew up in Florence but fled at an early age.
"A Requisition"
A June 26, 1873 Tuscumbia North Alabamian article reporting that upon the request of the Governor of Tennessee, Marshal County, Tennessee African-American burglar and fugitive George Phillips, who had been arrested in Lauderdale County and held for…
"A Slave Family in the Ante-Bellum South"
This is a link to an article about the Rapier family of Florence, Alabama.
"A SLAVE FAMILY'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM"
This is an account of Peter Still, who purchased his freedom from slavery in Tuscumbia.
"After the Melee"
This is a series photographs of Robert Parker and his pet black bear, Charley.
"After White Man Dies: Negro Charged With Murder Moved For 'Safe Keeping'" Delano Jones is charged with the murder of white grocer Lewis Kilgore.
This is a newspaper article about Delano Jones, who was charged with the murder of white grocer Lewis Kilgore. The Lauderdale County Sheriff moved Jones from his cell in the Florence jail due to the threat of mob violence.
"Alabama College Signs First Negro Football Players"
This is a Jet Magazine article about Bobby Joe Pride and Leonard Thomas, the first two African Americans to sign with Florence State University to play football
"Amendments are No Cure for 'Evils'"
A June 4, 1964 *Florence Herald* report on comments by Alabama Senator John Sparkman with respect to "75 or 80 clarifying or technical amendments introduced by Republicans" to the Civil Rights Bill backed by the Johnson Administration, in which…
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