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The National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax (1940-1948) was an organization that sought, through grass-roots efforts, to repeal the National, as well as state, poll tax.

John Watson Chenault was a physician with John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital and served as Director of Orthopedics from 1937-54. He also served as director of the Infantile Paralysis Center from 1941-42, 1946-47, and ...

Lewis W. Jones was a sociologist and educator at Tuskegee Institute from 1966 until his death in 1979. From 1941-42, Jones collaborated with Charles S. Johnson and John W. Work, III on the Archive of American Folk Song, ...

Margaret Washington Clifford, granddaughter of Booker T. Washington, was educated from kindergarten through her Master’s degree at Tuskegee University. Clifford lectured about Afro-American History throughout the nation.

Autographs include many famous African Americans such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Andrew Young. It also includes others such as Susan B. Anthony, Mamie Eisenhower and Andrew Carnegie. Collection spans ...

The Southern Courier was a weekly newspaper that covered the Civil Rights Movement, specifically in Alabama, from July of 1965 to December 1968.

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States. The flood affected Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, ...