April 11, 1914

The Colored Alabamian Co.

Newspaper

Title: The Colored Alabamian [vol 8. No. 7 (April 11, 1914)]

One issue of the newspaper "The Colored Alabamian." Volume VIII. Number 7. dated April 11, 1914 . Published in Montgomery, Alabama by the Colored Alabamian Co. The Colored Alabamian was published weekly in Montgomery from 1907 to 1916. This issue has news of the first annual debate between students at Selma University and Tuskegee Institute as well as an article about educator John C. Leftwich upsetting African Americans in Cleveland by endorsing segregation in a talk at a white church. There are also over 50 advertisements from Black-owned business and notice of a revival at the Dexter…

GLC10120

August 13, 1910

The Colored Alabamian Co.

Newspaper

Title: The Colored Alabamian

One issue of the newspaper "The Colored Alabamian." Volume IV. Number 25. dated August 13, 1910. Published in Montgomery, Alabama by the Colored Alabamian Co. This issue has a report from S.R.W. Smith, the dean of Selma University's literary department, reporting on positive changes for African Americans in politics in Knoxville, Tennessee. There's also mention of a short-lived, little known African American periodical for which OCLC locates no copies: James E. McCall's “The Colored Servant Girl.”

GLC10121

1920

Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Pamphlet

Title: An Appeal To The Christian People of the South

One pamphlet entitled An Appeal To The Christian People of the South dated 1920. This is an early publication by a group known as the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (“CIC”). According to the Georgia Encyclopedia online, the CIC was made up of mostly white church leaders and was founded in Atlanta in 1919 to “to oppose lynching, mob violence, and peonage and to educate white southerners concerning the worst aspects of racial abuse.” This report derived from the group's meeting in Blue Ridge, North Carolina in August, 1920. The booklet contains a two page report on how the CIC came about…

GLC10125

1926

Dones, Sidney P., 1888-1947

Pamphlet

Title: Eureka Villa

GLC10156

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of African American baseball player eating

One photograph of an African American baseball player eating dated circa 1925. A man in a Powell Grocery uniform is under a tree eating a sandwich behind him there are other people standing with their backs to him.

GLC09978.08

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of four African American baseball players

One photograph of four African American baseball players dated circa 1925. The photograph is focused on two players, one in a regular uniform and another in catcher pads. They are in uniforms with PWC on the left side. Another player is obscured behind them and on the right of the image a player is sitting on the ground with their back to the photo. The player seated on the ground has the number 75.

GLC09978.09

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of three African American baseball players

One photograph of three African American baseball players dated circa 1925. The photograph is focused on one player in a regular uniform holding a catcher mitt. The second player is only half in the image, both are in uniforms with PWC on the left side. On the right of the image a player is sitting on the ground with their back to the photo. The player seated on the ground has the number 75.

GLC09978.10

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of an African American baseball player in a field

One photograph of African American baseball player in a field dated circa 1925. The photograph is focused on one player in a regular uniform with PWC on the left side. He is standing in a field.

GLC09978.11

1924

Photograph signed

Title: Photograph of Normal "Tweed" Webb

One photograph of Normal "Tweed" Webb dated 1924. Features Webb in a Broomer Tailors baseball uniform.

GLC09978.01

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of two African American men

One photograph of two African American men dated circa 1925. One man is in a Powell Grocery baseball uniform and has an arm slung over the shoulders of the second man. The second man is dressed in regular clothes with a hat.

GLC09978.02

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of nine African American men

One photograph of nine African American men dated circa 1925. The men are in baseball uniforms; three for the Custodian P.S. Two men are in uniforms where you cannot read the name of their team. Behind them are four other men. Four members of the group are sitting on a bench while one sits on the ground in front of them. The rest are standing in the background.

GLC09978.03

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of eleven African American men

One photograph of eleven African American men dated circa 1925. The men are in baseball uniforms for the Powell Grocery team. Five men stand behind the other six men posing for a team photograph.

GLC09978.04

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of one African American man

One photograph of one African American man dated circa 1925. The man is in a baseball uniform with a P on the left side of the uniform.

GLC09978.05

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of three African American men playing baseball

One photograph of three African American men playing baseball dated circa 1925. The photograph features three men one has attempted to slide into base but has been called out by the umpire as the third man has tagged him with the ball. The team name on the uniform is Powell Grocery for both players,

GLC09978.06

circa 1925

Photograph

Title: Photograph of six African American men on a field

One photograph of six African American men on a field dated circa 1925. The six men are milling about a field stretching. There is a hat with a P on it identifying the team. The backs of several uniforms are visible showing numbers 95, 20 and 30.

GLC09978.07