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African Americans -- Civil rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama Council on Human Relations Records

 Collection — Box Short Collection 5
Identifier: 0077
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, brochures, speeches, reports, and newsletters on the Alabama Council of Human Relations, a civil rights group, during the tenure of Nathaniel Welch as its president. Also some newspaper clippings of that era appearing in 1961, 1974, 1995.

Dates: 1961 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1964 - 1966

Caley/Carlton Farm Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0753
Scope and Contents Accession 11-066 contains financial ledgers and cattle herd record books from the Caley farm, dating from the 1910s to the 1940s. Also included are various essays, poems, and songs written by Albert Caley from the 1930s to the 1970s. There are also various newsclippings and letters relating to the history of the Caley and Scoville families, records of the Marion Junction Homemakers Club, and bulletins from Marion Junction United Methodist Church, and well as a booklet on the Sheldon and...
Dates: 1897-2008

J. Mason Davis Typescript

 Collection — Box Short Collection 20
Identifier: 1328
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one five-page typescript, "A Study of the Treatment of Negroes in Textbooks," written in 1969 by J. Mason Davis.

Dates: 1969

Federal Bureau of Investigation File on Jimmie Lee Jackson Murder

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 1093-10-083-001]
Identifier: 1093
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photocopies of the Federal Bureau of Investigation case file for the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson. The case file was obtained via FOIA request in 2007, and the contents were screened and redacted. There is no record of who requested the file or donated it to AU Archives.

Throughout the file, Jackson's first name is spelled "Jimmy".

Dates: 1965