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New Step To Avoid Integration: Senate Approves Police Power

July 23, 1955

Describes that the Alabama Senate approved the use of police power to maintain segregation in public school

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Committee Meets: Tuscumbia Negro Citizens Discuss Teacher Dismissal, School Matters

March 31, 1955

Describes that Black citizens in Tuscumbia held a meeting to discuss the dismissalof a Black teacher and depicts a letter written to the Board of Education

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In Tuscumbia: Negro Group Petitions Removal Of Principal

February 1, 1955

Describes that Black residents in Tuscumbia had requested the removal of Professor P.H. Wesley as principal of Trenholm High School for the unethical arrest of a faculty member named Mrs. Delores Swoopes Jones

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