ALABAMA COLLECTION:“Camp Shipp –In the land of cotton.”(1880-1909)
“Camp Shipp –In the land of cotton.”
Alabama Dept. of Archives and History,624 Washington Ave.,Montgomery,AL 36130
CIVIL RIGHTS COLLECTION:“Freedom Riders Civil Rights Rally in Montgomery,AL.”(1961)
Freedom Riders in Montgomery Alabama at Civil Rights Rally,1961.
FSA COLLECTION:Walker Evans – “Negro Flood Refugees” (1937)
Negro flood refugee in the Red Cross temporary infirmary of Forrest City,Arkansas. Negro flood refugees in the Red Cross temporary infirmary at Forrest City,MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Walker Evans – “Floyd Burroughs and Tengle Children” (1936)
Floyd Burroughs and Tengle children,Hale County,Alabama.
FSA COLLECTION:Marion Post Wolcott – “Gees Bend,Alabama” (1939)
Old man Moseley,now blind,Gees Bend,Alabama. 1939 Nolan Pettway’s children bringing home wagonload of fertilizer,Gees Bend,Alabama. Gertrude,churning on Isaiah Pettway’s MORE
FSA ARCHIVE:Marion Post Wolcott – “Behind the homemade plow” (1939)
Behind the homemade plow in the school garden,Gees Bend,Alabama. 1939
WALKER EVANS:“Roadside stand near Birmingham,Alabama.” (1936)
Roadside stand near Birmingham,Alabama. 1936.
WALKER EVANS:“Frank Tengle,Bud Fields,and Floyd Burroughs” (1936)
Frank Tengle,Bud Fields,and Floyd Burroughs,cotton sharecroppers,Hale County,Alabama. Summer,1936.
CALIFORNIA COLLECTION:Civil Rights –“Marching Through Selma:A Special Supplement of Documents and Analysis”
The White City
The county seat of Dallas County,Alabama,lying on the bluffs of the Alabama River,an important Confederate military depot in the MORE
ALABAMA COLLECTION:“Impoverished African American Children” (1915)
Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sit on the ground near their home. Original caption reads:“These five little Negro children show the MORE
ALABAMA COLLECTION:“Former Slave Sitting on Porch” (1915)
Original caption reads:“J.R. Dean,a southern Negro,who at the age of 22 was released from slavery,went into debt to the amount MORE
ALABAMA COLLECTION:“African Americans Engaged in Yard Work” (1915)
African American man and boy use “sedge brush”brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women –possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension MORE
ALABAMA COLLECTION:“African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue” (1915)
African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who appears in the front row,third from the MORE
ALABAMA COLLECTION:“Tom’s Place” (1966)
Man and woman dancing at Tom’s Place in Montgomery,Alabama. Photographer,Jim Peppler.
AMERICAN MEMORY COLLECTION:American Slaves – “Nathan Beauchamp”(1930-40)
Nathan Beauchamp,Age about 92,Eufaula,Alabama
ALABAMA COLLECTION:Jim Peppler – “Little Korea” (1966)
Little girl standing in a yard in Little Korea,a neighborhood in Birmingham,Alabama.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA COLLECTION:Jim Peppler – “Mount Meigs” (1966)
Young woman picking cotton in the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County,Alabama.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA COLLECTION:Jim Peppler – “Martin Luther King Jr.’s Funeral” (1968)
Mourners entering Ebenezer Baptist Church to view Martin Luther King,Jr.’s casket. April 9,1968.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA COLLECTION:"Wooden Church"(1966)
People entering a wooden church building in rural Autauga County,Alabama,for a meeting.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA COLLECTION:“March Against Fear” (1966)
Group of white men drinking while standing by a road,observing the “March Against Fear”begun by James Meredith.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
ALABAMA COLLECTION:“Tom’s Place”(1966)
Man and woman dancing at Tom’s Place in Montgomery,Alabama.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA COLLECTION:Jim Peppler –"Pledge of Allegiance"(1966)
Teacher and students saying the Pledge of Allegiance in a classroom.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA COLLECTION:Jim Peppler –"Elderly Man"(1960-1969)
Elderly man wearing a hat.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA COLLECTION:Jim Peppler – “March Against Fear”(1966)
Woman holding a baby and an American flag,standing with a group of people during the “March Against Fear”begun by James Meredith.
Photographer:Jim MORE
ALABAMA COLLECTION:Jim Peppler – “March Against Fear”(1966)
Fannie Lou Hamer singing to a group of people during the “March Against Fear”begun by James Meredith.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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Montgomery,Alabama –"Tom’s Place"(1966)
Man and woman seated at a table at Tom’s Place in Montgomery,Alabama.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA:"Tom’s Place"(1966)
Band performing at Tom’s Place in Montgomery,Alabama.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA:"Jim Peppler Collection"(1965-68)
Young man leaning on a rail outside Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery,Alabama,probably before a football game.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA:"Jim Peppler Collection"(1965-68)
Group of children standing around a washtub in the dirt yard in front of a house in Little Korea,a neighborhood in Birmingham,Alabama. This MORE
ALABAMA:"Jim Peppler Collection"(1965-68)
A waiter is reaching in front of the couple to remove an empty glass.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA:"Jim Peppler Collection"(1965-68)
Woman sitting in an audience at Maggie Street Baptist Church in Montgomery,Alabama,probably listening to Martin Luther King,Jr.,speak.
ALABAMA:"Jim Peppler Collection"(1965-68)
Boy picking cotton in the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County,Alabama.
Photographer:Jim Peppler
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ALABAMA:"Jim Peppler Collection"(1965-68)
Bag of cotton hanging on a scale. A woman beside the scale is making notes in a book. The photograph was taken from above. 1965-68
ALABAMA:"Jim Peppler Collection"(1965-68)
Bag of cotton hanging on a scale. A woman beside the scale is making notes in a book. The scale is is attached to MORE
ALABAMA:"Marjorie L. Smith Collection"(1951-75)
View of cotton lint being blown from gin into surrounding fields.
ALABAMA:“Tuskegee Civic Association”(1958)
The Tuskegee Civic Association (or TCA),a nonprofit organization,was founded on April 13,1941 at a meeting held at Greenwood Missionary Baptist Church,Tuskegee MORE
DOCUMERICA:Birmingham,Alabama,USA (1972)
IN MANY AREAS OF THE CITY BLACKS STILL LIVE IN SUBSTANDARD HOUSING. THIS IS A SCENE IN “LITTLE KOREA”,IN SOUTH BIRMINGHAM,A PRIME EXAMPLE MORE
ALABAMA ARCHIVE:"Martin Luther King,Jr. at Brown Chapel"(1966)
Martin Luther King,Jr.,speaking to a crowd at Brown Chapel in Selma,Alabama. A child is sitting in front of the podium,looking at MORE
ALABAMA ARCHIVE:"March Against Fear"(1966)
Andrew Young,Martin Luther King,Jr.,Stokely Carmichael,Floyd McKissick,and others,participating in the “March Against Fear”begun by James Meredith. June,1966.
Photographer:MORE
ALABAMA ARCHIVE:"Selma March"(1965)
Selma to Montgomery marchers in Montgomery. One marcher is carrying a sign that reads,“God hath made of one blood all nations &men.”MORE
ALABAMA ARCHIVE:“Selma March”(1965)
African American women,children,and an older man waving to Selma to Montgomery marchers from the sidewalk. This is from a collection of sixteen slides,MORE
FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Gees Bend,Alabama,April,1937
Drawing water from well. Gees Bend,Alabama.
April,1937
Gee’s Bend,also known as Boykin,is a very poor tenant community in Alabama,United States MORE
FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Florence,Alabama,June,1942
Florence,Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams,electrician at Wilson Dam,lives in this demountable prefabricated defense house at Florence,Alabama.
June,1942
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
MR. ROBERT B. JONES,RETIRED RAILROAD WORKER,IS TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON HIS HOME OXYGEN MACHINE FOR SURVIVAL. THE POLLUTED AIR IS A SEVERE PROBLEM FOR MORE
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
FORMER MACHINIST MR. WILBUR SHUFF USES A LUNG FUNCTION TESTING MACHINE TO MEASURE HIS BREATHING CAPACITY. HAVING DEVELOPED EMPHYSEMA,HE SUFFERS SEVERELY FROM AIR POLLUTION,MORE
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
DR. BEN V. BRANSCOMB USES A SIMPLE TIRE PUMP AS A BREATHING AID FOR A RED LUNG VICTIM. DR. BRANSCOMB IS A LEADING FIGURE IN MORE
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH,07/1972
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
A COMMUNITY IN NORTH BIRMINGHAM,THE AREA OF THE CITY MOST BADLY EFFECTED BY POLLUTION FROM THE STEEL PLANTS. THE NORTH BIRMINGHAM PIPE PLANT IS MORE
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
STATE FAIR,BIRMINGHAM,ALABAMA,10/1972
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
HOUSING ADJACENT TO U.S. STEEL PLANT,BIRMINGHAM,ALABAMA,07/1972
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS,BIRMINGHAM,ALABAMA,07/1972
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
SERVICES AT SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH,07/1972
DOCUMERICA (1971-1977):Photographer –LeRoy Woodson,Birmingham,Alabama,USA.
NIGHT TIME STREET SCENE,BIRMINGHAM,ALABAMA,10/1972.