December 6, 1955
Defends the rights of Black people by utilizing Biblical scripture and argues that the fight for the rights of Black people should belong to all Americans
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Three Whites Charged With Brutal Deaths: Survivors Of Slaying Of Negro Family Talk To Jury
March 16, 1950
Describes that a Black farmer named Thomas Harris was shot and that his family was murdered and presents that the suspect on trial was Windol Whitt, who was represented by the mayor of the town.
Posse Shoots Down Accused, Sex Offender: Negro And Farm Wife He Raped In Same Hospital; Boy, 4, Dead
October 20, 1950
Describes that a group of angered men attacked Cooper Drake, the Black man accused of raping a woman named Kathleen Holley and killing her son
Scottsboro Rape Case Defendant Is In Trouble Again
December 19, 1950
Describes that Haywood Patterson, one of the “Scottsboro Boys”, was arrested for stabbinga man named Willie Mitchell after he had escaped from prison in Alabama for the crimeof rape, which he did not commit
Asks Negroes Seek God’s Aid, Advice
September 21, 1950
Describes that Bishop W.J. Walls of the African M.E. Zion Church called upon Black Christians to pursue God in their fight against injustice.
Letters to the Editor: “Mute Moderates” Are Asked to Speak Out
March 7, 1963
Writer calls for those who believe in desegregation who have not spoken out to do so in the midst of the events that have transpired across Alabama and in the South. Writer is from Florence, Alabama.