SAM DALEY'S SCHOOL Have you ever heard of Sam Daley's school in Tuscaloosa? I found two articles about it in a 1910 paper and…
Patron+ member story "OLD UNCLE DAVE" The Oldest Man in Lauderdale Dead (Transcribed from Times Daily July 18, 1890, Florence, Alabama) David Hutchings was…
There has been a rumor that slave tunnels are under a mansion in Tuscaloosa. A news crew investigated the story in a three-part video at…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 01, Spring Issue 1956 GERRARD HANSFORD, BARBER Montgomery, Alabama 1825 Gerrard Hansford, a free colored…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer FORMER SLAVE J. T. Brown 102 years old BULLOCK COUNTY, ALABAMA Interviewed by…
This is a transcribed, unedited, handwritten story from a WPA writer. Some of the words used in this article may not be appropriate today,…
There has been a mystery how Hal's Lake in Clarke County got its name. The mystery of Hal’s Lake Clarke County, Alabama Believed to…
While browsing the Alabama State Archives, I frequently run across some really interesting old photographs of Alabamians with absolutely no information about them. I…
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (c. 1840 – 1935), or Cudjo Lewis, was the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the…
Andrew Jackson Beard An Inventor (1849-1921) "Andrew Jackson Beard was born a slave on a plantation near Mt. Pinson in Jefferson County, Alabama about…
