To learn more about local African American history, check out the Alabama Citizen, a local African American newspaper that ran in Tuscaloosa from 1947-1963. After 1963, the publication moved to Mobile, AL and became the Mobile Beacon and the Alabama Citizen. To check out the print version of the Alabama Citizen, go to the W.S. Hoole Special Collection Library.
Digital Sanborn Maps: 1867-1970: AL, GA, MS--large-scale maps containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures, including information such as building outlines, size, shape and construction materials, heights and function of structures, location of windows and doors. Maps also include street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, pipelines, railroads, wells and dumps.
Other Map Collections: