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This article from The Alabamian is opinions of Alabama College students on the Boswell Amendment, which was an amendment that tried to prevent African Americans from voting. It eventually passed, and was used for a very short time in Alabama law. The…

Cited as a "humorous and delightful story" in the article, Eneas Africanus is widely acknowledged as one of the most pro-slavery stories. This was read by a Junior at Alabama College, Lillian Russell.

Carl Samuels and Shirley Bowman are pictured.

Though much of the research found was uplifting in a sense, this joke posted under the section of the newspaper titled "Idiot's Delight" made it apparent that race relations in Alabama and thus Montevallo were still an issue.

This article includes a poll asked by 25 faculty, and 25 members from each class year. Participants were asked about issues within Montevallo and on a national level. When asked about if African Americans should be denied the right to vote due to…

This article takes note of a survey done by John B. Knox's sociology class. Though the ideas may still seem out of date compared to present day, these ideas presented by students are shockingly progressive for 1940.

Though this is not Montevallo's admission of a colored person to school, this is significant in the change and timeline of Montevallo's eventual admission of blacks.

Alabama College's club YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) helps a new black school that opens in Montevallo.

This article also highlights the lack of funding in black schools at the time, a problem many schools in Alabama still face…