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Crime Notices involving Local African-Americans 1865-1870 from the Florence Journal and Literary Index.

Title

Crime Notices involving Local African-Americans 1865-1870 from the Florence Journal and Literary Index.

Subject

The Law, Crime and Punishment

Description

A Series of articles involving local African-Americans accused of crimes or victims of crimes, as reported by the Florence Journal. and Literary Index

The Florence Journal was founded ca. September or October of 1865 by Florence educator and editor Dr. David R. Lindsay (1821-1898), brother of future Alabama Governor Robert B. Lindsay. It was suppressed by Alabama's Reconstruction government in late 1867 for being too vocal in its opposition to Military Reconstruction. In early 1868 Isaac and Silas Barr (1832-1903), former editors of the Florence Gazette, began publishing the Literary Index with the old Journal's press. The Literary Index seems to only have published for at most a couple of years.

The Florence Journal was started up again in 1869 by Capt. Robert McFarland, Esq. (1836-1892) and T. Allen Jones. By February of 1873 the Florence Journal had bought out and merged with the Lauderdale Times, founded in April of 1871 by William J. Wood (1850-1917) and Isaac S. Barr (1832-1903), to become the Florence Times-Journal ed. by Wood and Barr.

This collection will be added to as more articles are discovered.

Source

1-3; 5- 9. Florence (AL) Journal

4. Literary Index (Florence, AL)

Publisher

1.; 5-8. Microfilm;

2-4. Bill Clemmons

Date

Contributor

Lee Freeman

Rights

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Format

Jpeg

Language

English

Type

Still Images

Files

Terry Article.jpg

Dec 6 1866 Shooting Killing.JPG

Aug 12 1868 Hog Thief in Trouble.JPG

Nov 18 1868 A Fatal Shooting Afray.JPG

Broke Jail.jpg

Sent to Jail.jpg

Unfortunate Shooting.jpg

Ross Peters.jpg

Collection

The Law, Crime and Punishment

Citation

“Crime Notices involving Local African-Americans 1865-1870 from the Florence Journal and Literary Index.,” Shoals Black History, accessed April 27, 2024, https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/1315.

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