1993

Jefferson, Alabama

African American Sufferage, Birmingham, Alabama, Racism

Years after civil rights pioneers, like Martin Luther King Jnr., walked the Birmingham streets protesting against segregation and for equal opportunity, influenced black Baptist preachers rewalked the march route in September 1995.  Raising awareness for a campaign to increase the black polling population nationwide; march leader Rev. Dr. Henry Lyons hoped black voters would help progressive liberal...

January 7, 1866

FULTON, Georgia

African American Sufferage

Scalawag, a pejorative term not commonly used, became a commonly spoken slur used to describe Union sympathizers living in the South before, during, and after the Civil War. Some politicians, such as the one interviewed in an article in the January 7, 1866 edition of The New York Times, believed that Reconstruction was, "…a good idea in theory, but in practice, it would prove to be unsuccessful...