Researchers need your help identifying local people in never-before-seen ‘Bloody Sunday’ photos
A partnership between universities and community researchers in the Black Belt is aiming to identify local “Foot Soldiers” from the Voting Rights... Read More
Freetown, west of Uniontown, was early community of free people of color in the Black Belt
You might only notice the simple country church and accompanying historical marker on Highway 80 in passing, but they represent a truly... Read More
Jones, Alabama’s new poet laureate, has Black Belt roots
by: Casey Roberts Ashley M. Jones, of Birmingham, has been named poet laureate of Alabama. Poet laureate is an unpaid, four-year position... Read More
110 Years Ago in the [Uniontown] Negro Leader – Feb. 9, 1912
in the [Uniontown] Negro LeaderFeb. 9, 1912 For Rent. 15 acres corn or cotton land near town, at reasonable price.J. W. BILLINGSLEA.Uniontown,... Read More
Alabama’s first African-American dentist was Perry County native
The first African-American dentist in Alabama was born right in Marion. Thomas A. Curtis’s parents were formerly enslaved people from Perry County.... Read More
Archives from the Negro Leader are a window into 1910s African-American life in the Black Belt
The Negro Leader, founded Oct. 1909 in Uniontown, wasn’t the first African-American owned publication in the Black Belt, or even in Perry... Read More
UNSUNG: Horace Sprott, Black Belt native, was toast of 50s folk scene
by: John Allan Clark When I first came across the name Horace Sprott, it wasn’t on a monument on the courthouse square or... Read More