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Alabama. Attorney General's Office. Montgomery Bus Boycott trial transcript, 1956.

Title: Montgomery Bus Boycott trial transcript, 1956.

On 1955 Dec. 1 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., municipal bus to a white person. As a result the black citizens of Montgomery chose to boycott the city's bus system in hope that they could force the bus company and the city to adopt changes to the segregated seating policies. Many of the more vocal blacks banded together to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), electing the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. president. The boycott continued into 1956 Feb., when negotiations between the MIA and the city commissioners and bus company officials stagnated. On Feb. 21 eighty-nine blacks including King were indicted for the misdemeanor of conspiring to boycott. The Alabama anti-boycott law was passed in 1921 in response to the violent strike of Birmingham coal miners. Martin L. King was brought to trail in Mar. and although he was convicted Judge Eugene W. Carter refused to sentence him to prison on the grounds that King had worked to avoid violence. This series consists of the State Attorney General's copy of the transcript of the Circuit Court trial that occurred on 1956 Mar. 19. In addition to King, Roy Bennett, E.N. French, and E.D. Dixon were named as defendants. Attorneys for the defense were Fred D. Gray, Charles D. Langford, Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Peter A. Hall, and Arthur D. Shores. Maury D. Smith, Robert B. Stewart, and William F. Thetford served as prosecuting attorneys. Witnesses included: J.H. Bagley, Willie Chisholm, Erna Dungee, U.J. Fields, R.S. Graetz, Beatrice Jackson, Rufus Lewis, Joe Foster, D.S. Johnson, C.E. Moseley, Hezekiah Nunn, J.B. Sadler, C.H. Williams, Joseph Alford, Joe Alford, Joe Azbell, Mary Banks, A.E. Beasley, M.O. Beasley, C.A. Bedsole, Leola Bell, Henrietta Brinson, Sadie Brooks, Stella Brooks, Henry A. Burks, Arretta Burney, Willie Carter, C.N. Courtney, Irene Dorsey, Willie Elmore, J.B. Gardner, Odelliah Garnier, William A. Gayle, Georgia Gilmore, Thelma Glass, Mary Harris, George Henderson, Lula Mae Hopper, Dorothy Johnson, Geneva Johnson, K.Y. Jones, William Jones, Richard Jordan, Bessie Logan, O.O. Martin, W.H. Mills, Gladys Moore, S.E. Moseley, Rosa Lee Murray, John Oliver, Louise Osborne, Janie Page, Henry A. Parker, R.A. Park, Stuart W. Patton, Della Perkins, Eva Perkins, O.T. Rainwater, Inez Ricks, Frances Rutledge, Jack Shows, R.T. Smiley, Ernest Smith, Martha K. Walker, D.W. Williams, Odessa Williams, and A.W. Wilson. Individuals mentioned during the course of the trial include: Ralph D. Abernathy, Claudette Colvin, Jack Crenshaw, Governor James E. (Big Jim) Folsom, Walter Knabe, Rosa Parks, and JoAnn Robinson.

ArchivalResource: Original 1 item (1 oversized box)Copy on one microfilm reel.

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New Lebanon, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, 1860-1941.

Title: New Lebanon, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, 1860-1941.

Chiefly correspondence, inventories, circulars, poems, legal papers, receipts, invoices, and other papers, of/or relating to Mount Lebanon, the Shaker community at New Lebanon, N.Y. Also includes letter (1864) from Eliza Ann Taylor to Mary Whitcher, Canterbury, reflecting the motto "Hands to Work and Hearts to God"; sketch of a society meeting (8 p., 1865 Apr. 23), pertaining to the annual meeting led by Elder Daniel Boler; letter (1869 Apr. 19) from Betsy Bates, to Eldress Ann (Eliza Ann Taylor), Mt. Lebanon, written from the "spirit land" of her death (1869 Mar. 3); note (1869 July 10) from Sarah Bates to Esdresses Ann and Polly Langford, welcoming them home; description of Sabbath meeting at Mt. Lebanon (1870 Apr. 17); receipts (2 items, 1871-1872) of Sarah Ann Lewis, concerning fancy goods purchased at Mt. Lebanon and Bridgeport, Conn.; right of way agreement (1880 Aug. 20) giving free access to Benjamin Gates to the coal sheds at Lebanon Springs, N.Y.; letters (2 items, 1882, 1883) from Benjamin Gates to Otis Sawyer, Sabbathday Lake, concerning a new dwelling house at New Gloucester and losses in the garden seed business; account (1883) of days worked at the pill shop; and letter (1886) from A.J. White, agent for Shaker medicines in New York, N.Y., to C.H. Williams, requesting that Williams become a commission agent for the sale of Kaskine. Also includes letter (1887 June 3) from F.W. Evans, aboard steamer State of Georgia, at sea, en route to England and Scotland, describing rough seas, whales, icebergs, and lectures given while on ship; letters (1896-1898) from Joseph Holden, Mt. Lebanon, to William Dumont, Sabbathday Lake (SDL), relating to the apple crop, impending visits, health, and other subjects; letters (1904, 1910) from Alonzo G. Hollister to Br. Delmer Wilson, SDL, asking spiritual questions and reflecting on the deaths of sisters Aurelia Mace and Agnes Lee and brother Joseph Quinn; account (1913) of South Family sisters, Mt. Lebanon, managed by Eldress Sarah Collins, written on the billhead of R.M. Wagan & Co., manufacturers of Shaker chairs; and accounts and other materials on the manufacture of the chairs, rugs, medicinal extracts, and fancy goods.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

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McInery, E. B. (E. Blake). Beaverbrook Foundation Scholarships : 1951-1953.

Title: Beaverbrook Foundation Scholarships : 1951-1953. 1951 Dec. 7 - 1953.

Letters regarding the Beaverbrook Overseas Scholarships and recipients including requests from students to depart for the provisions of the trust (Margaret-Ann Stewart) and for scholarship renewal (Murray Young and Norm Eastman) and progress report on Beaverbrook Scholars from the University of London.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 6 (7 leaves)

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