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subject : African American
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Civil rights violations; bus segregation ordered halted by Interstate Commerce Commission; Montgomery bus boycott; attempts at school desegregation; Supreme Court rules bus segregation
Microfilm (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1950; 1951; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959
Newspaper clippings compiled by the staff of the Birmingham Public Library’s Southern History Department on King’s civil rights activities
Birmingha Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Shuttlesworth sues Birmingham for integration of schools and parks; Civil Rights Commission demands voting records of several counties; George Wallace defiance; President Eisenhower's
Microfilm (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1958; 1959; 1960
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Supreme Court upholds Civil Rights Commission hearings; Montgomery County ordered to release voting records; Mobile ordered to integrate municipal golf course; Macon County ordered to
Microfilm (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1960; 1961
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Abernathy and Shuttlesworth arrested in Montgomery; Greyhound Bus Terminal court case; federal court orders halt to Freedom Riders. These scrapbooks, compiled by librarians at the Bir
Microfilm (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1961; 1962
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Sit-in at Talladega; integration of Birmingham airport restaurant ordered; Montgomery Public Library desegregated; military reserve units to integrate; Birmingham voters registration;
Microfilm (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1962; 1963
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Rioting and looting in Birmingham; President Kennedy and Governor Wallace confer; Gadsden marches; State Police sent to Birmingham; white mob attacks black ministers at Anniston. The
Microfilm (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1963; 1964; 1965
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: mob violence at Marion; Wallace bans nighttime racial demonstrations in Dallas and Perry Counties; civil rights compliance forms signed by several state officials; violence in Montgome
Microfilm (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1965;
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Federal examiners controversy; Anniston murder trial; Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach speaks at Mobile; voter registration; Prattville moratorium; Wallace will defy school desegre
Microfilm (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969
photograph
Black and white photograph of Birmingham Packing Company's trucks parked at Woodrow Wilson Park. In the background is the Dr. W.E.B. Davis monument, which was later moved to Hillman Hospital. This s
Oscar V. Hunt Collection 1075, Archives Department (source)
O.V. Hunt (publisher)
Hunt, Oscar V., 1881-1962 (creator)
photograph
Black and white photograph of a Cruse-Crawford manufactured truck used by Firestone Tire Company for service calls.
Oscar V. Hunt Collection 1075, Archives Department (source)
O.V. Hunt (publisher)
Hunt, Oscar V., 1881-1962 (creator)
photograph
Black and white photograph of a produce company in Bessemer, Alabama, with its delivery truck parked in front. Unfortunately, the name of this store is both cropped from the top of the photograph and
Oscar V. Hunt Collection 1075, Archives Department (source)
O.V. Hunt (publisher)
Hunt, Oscar V., 1881-1962 (creator)
photograph
Black and white photograph of Industrial High School located at 2079 8th Avenue North which later became Parker High School.
Archives Department Collection 1556 (Photographs, General) (source)
Birmingham, Alabama (publisher)
1944-11-23
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