African Americans -- Civil rights
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Council on Human Relations Records
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.
Caley/Carlton Farm Records
J. Mason Davis Typescript
This collection contains one five-page typescript, "A Study of the Treatment of Negroes in Textbooks," written in 1969 by J. Mason Davis.
Federal Bureau of Investigation File on Jimmie Lee Jackson Murder
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".