New Year’s Day 2013 marks the sesquicentennial of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the most significant documents in American history. Indeed, the Emancipation Proclamation immortalized Pres. Abraham Lincoln. For example, a 2009 C-Span poll of 64 historians…
By Kimberly L Wright Dispatch staff writer When summarizing the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaker Dr. Richard Bailey of the Air Force Research Institute noted, "Whether you live in Mobile, Minneapolis or Monterey, on the third Monday of…
It took more than six decades, but Tuskegee Airman Sherman W. White Jr. was finally honored Monday on a day when Americans paid tribute to their war dead. Overcast, rainy skies failed to hold down the crowd outside a house…
Alumni representing almost all of the graduating classes of the former Booker T. Washington High School were among those saddened when its doors closed in 1970. But many of them returned to their old campus for roll call and several…
Booker T. Washington High School alumni let out thunderous cheers during Sunday's unveiling of the Swayne College/Booker T. Washington High School historic marker. The two-sided marker was placed on Union Street at the campus of Booker T. Washington Magnet High…
By Alvin Benn Montgomery Advertiser When author and historian Richard Bailey was a teenager, Montgomery's public libraries were separate and quite unequal. He had to go to the "black" library because if he had tried to check out a book…
The history and people of one of Montgomery's oldest neighborhoods were the focus of a special Sunday lecture. Richard Bailey presented the lecture "An Afternoon in Centennial Hill" Sunday at the Church of the Good Shepherd on South Jackson Street.…
Historian Richard Bailey discusses the new historic marker that was unveiled Tuesday at Court Square Fountain. One side of the marker commemorates the first emancipation observance in the city, and the other side deals with slave trade in the Capital…
Claims although they belonged to the Republican Party, they were not carpet-baggers or scalawags by Nick Lackeos Alabama Journal staff writer Editors note: This article was originally printed in the Montgomery Advertiser under the title, Neither Carpetbagger Nor Scalawag. It appeared on…