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What is conveyed on the back as well as on the front. Because you were forced at that time with the people at that time were forced to write things in a very short, succinct format it gives you an indication of what they felt was important. In many cases is very different from what we feel is important today. In some cases its very much like we do. They tend to stick with, in the words of joe friday, just the facts. They really believe that conveying the most important thing more important but i...

Learning from the Rosenwald Schools Booker T. Washington formed an incredibly productive partnership with Sears magnate Julius Rosenwald dating to 1911. It started with Rosenwald’s donations of shoes and hats for industrial school students in the South. In 1913 Washington recruited Rosenwald to join the board of the Tuskegee Institute. As Robert Norrell writes in Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (2011), “By that time, Rosenwald and his wife were enamored of Tuskegee and pe...

Alabama’s Amazon union push latest chapter in state’s tumultuous labor history Updated Feb 11, 2021; Posted Feb 11, 2021 A man stands along Powder Plant Road with a sign encouraging Amazon employees to vote yes for a union, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (William Thornton/al.com) Facebook Share A mail-in vote beginning this week on whether employees at Amazon’s Bessemer fulfillment center can be represented by a union has garnered worldwide attention, in no small part because of Alabama’s r...