New Hope Missionary Baptist Church on County Road 89, southwest of Camp Hill, lies on the site of a violent standoff in 1931 when authorities, backed by an armed posse, raided a meeting of the Share Croppers Union.
Siri Hedreen / The OutlookIn December 1932, a Camp Hill landlord wrote to The Dadeville Record seeking to spread the word about the "joke" of a letter he had received earlier that week, printed as follows:
We the tenants and share croppers, living on your plantation, discussed among ourselves the miserable slave conditions and inhuman treatments that are being imposed upon us by you and the county administration.
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Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- Siri Hedreen / The Outlook
The Tallapoosa News: The July 23, 1931
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Spot-Cash: July 23, 1931
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Alexander City Outlook: July 23, 1931
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- Siri Hedreen / The Outlook
The Tallapoosa News: July 23, 1931
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Tallapoosa News: July 30, 1931
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Spot-Cash: July 30, 1931
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Spot-Cash: July 30, 1931
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- Siri Hedreen / The Outlook
The Dadeville Spot-Cash: Aug. 13, 1931
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Alexander City Outlook: Dec. 22, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Alexander City Outlook: Dec. 22, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Alexander City Outlook: Dec. 22, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- Siri Hedreen / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 22, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 22, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 22, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 22, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 29, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 29, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 29, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 29, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Dadeville Record: Dec. 29, 1932
Local coverage of The Share Croppers Union
- File / The Outlook
The Alexander City Outlook: Dec. 29, 1932
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Former mayor Frank Holley speaks at a community meeting held at Camp Hill's Bear Park last summer as current mayor Messiah Williams-Cole (left) looks on.
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A pulverized copy of the July 23, 1931 Dadeville Spot-Cash, archived at the Tallapoosa County Courthouse, reports on the events in Camp Hill leading up to the dumping of Ralph Gray's body on the steps of the same courthouse.
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