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Macon County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • A history of the First Baptist Church, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1839-1971
  • Cubahatchee Baptist Church of Christ church book 1838-1850 : (Macon County, Alabama)
  • Ebenezer/Hardaway Baptist Church members, 1845-1899, Macon County, Alabama
  • Tuskegee Cemetery, Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama : listing all people known to be buried in the cemetery...
  • Tuskegee University cemetery stories : the lives that built a great American educational institution
A history of the First Baptist Church, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1839-1971
Cubahatchee Baptist Church of Christ church book 1838-1850
Ebenezer/Hardaway Baptist Church members, 1845-1899, Macon County, Alabama
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  • 1850 U.S. census, Macon County, Alabama
  • Alabama 1840 census index. Transcribed from microfilmed originals
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1850 U.S. census, Macon County, Alabama
Alabama 1850 agricultural and manufacturing census
Alabama 1840 census index
Alabama 1860 agricultural and manufacturing census
Census 1855
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  • The African-American heritage cookbook : traditional recipes and fond remembrances from Alabama's renowned Tuskegee Institute
  • Alabama civil rights crawl : a travel guide
  • Ancestral voices rising up : a collage series on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  • A century of agriculture in the 1890 land-grant institutions and Tuskegee University, 1890-1990
  • An economic history of the Negro in agriculture in Dallas, Macon, and Madison counties, Alabama, 1910-1950
  • Emmett J. Scott : power broker of the Tuskegee machine
  • The heritage of Macon County, Alabama
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  • A historical perspective of education in Macon County, Alabama, 1836-1967
  • A history of Tuskegee [microfilm]
  • Lucille Sinclair Douglass : a life of art and adventure
  • Making a way : Ulysses Byas, first Black school superintendent in the Southeast, and his fight for educational reform
  • Planting hope on worn-out land : the history of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Project : Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959
  • To raise up the man farthest down : Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987
  • Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee
  • Shadow of the plantation
  • Through these eyes : the photographs of P. H. Polk
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  • The Tuskegee strangler : the nicest serial killer they ever met
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Early history of the Creek Indians and their neighbors
An economic history of the Negro in agriculture in Dallas, Macon, and Madison counties, Alabama, 1910-1950
Excavations at Tomotley, 1973-74, and the Tuskegee area
Gomillion versus Lightfoot; the Tuskegee gerrymander case
A handbook of plans & programs for the community council
The heritage of Macon County, Alabama
Historic assets, Macon County, Alabama
A history of Tuskegee
The impact of Negro voting; the role of the vote in the quest for equality
Making a place for ourselves : the Black hospital movement, 1920-1945
An outdoor guide to Bartram's travels
Planting hope on worn-out land : the history of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Project : Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959
Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee
Sammy Younge, Jr.: the first black college student to die in the black liberation movement
Shadow of the plantation
Stepping out of the shadows : Alabama women, 1819-1990
Truths and traditions of old Tuskegee
The Tuskegee-Togo cotton scheme, 1900-1909
Up from slavery : an autobiography
Land Records
  • Macon County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
Inventory of publicly owned lands for Macon County, Alabama
Macon County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
Planting hope on worn-out land : the history of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Project : Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959
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  • Macon County marriages, Book I
Macon County marriages, Book I
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  • A hero's walk : the World War II journey of Lt. B.B. Darnell
  • A model Confederate soldier : being a brief sketch of the Rev. Nathaniel D. Renfroe, Lieutenant of a company in the Fifth Alabama Battalion, of Gen. A.P. Hill's Division, who fell in the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862
  • Soaring to glory : a Tuskegee airman's firsthand account of World War II
  • The Tuskegee Airmen chronology : a detailed timeline of the Red Tails and other black pilots of World War II
  • Tuskegee's heroes : featuring the aviation art of Roy LaGrone
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