As late as 1965, according to James Corder, a Primitive Baptist minister from Aliceville, Pickens County had not yet experienced any civil unrest related to the movement. Ingleside house in Aliceville, June 1937 Civil rights movement 1960 ĭuring the civil rights movement, organizing in small communities such as Aliceville was often more dangerous for activists than it was in larger cities because of their isolation. This work, along with the paving of the streets, was largely completed by June 1910 and the city began considering the installation of water and electricity.
Property owners were to be responsible for building the sidewalks in front of their parcels. Gibson's father was subsequently "ordered to leave the county on account of some impertient (sic) talk." īy March 1908, municipal officials had decreed that all streets should have ten-foot sidewalks built on both sides. Rumors swirled that "the negroes were arming themselves," and a group of blacks on horseback were fired on in the street. In August 1907 a black man named Gibson was lynched in Aliceville, which caused civil disturbances in the community. Incorporation was approved by the voters, and on March 19, 1907, a municipal election was held to choose municipal officers, including a mayor and five aldermen: T.H. In 1907 an election was scheduled to allow the citizens of Aliceville to decide whether their community should be incorporated. There are about a dozen stores, a bank, public buildings and numerous enterprises." Within two years of the completion of the short line, Aliceville had grown to what the Montgomery Advertiser called in 1905 "a town of considerable pretensions.
Cochrane, founder of the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad and moving force behind the construction of the short line from Carrollton, Alabama to Aliceville. The city was named in honor of the wife of John T.
In 1902 the settlement that would become Aliceville was founded with the opening of a single store. Story from the Montgomery Advertiser (September 1, 1907) about a lynching in Aliceville
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