Editing Coffeeville, Alabama (section)

==History==
The town of Coffeeville was incorporated in 1817, and named after [[John Coffee|General John Coffee]].<ref name=Burrage>{{cite book| last=Burrage| first=Joyce White| title=Clarke County| year=1998| publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]]| location=[[Charleston, South Carolina]]| isbn=9780738568713| pages=7| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ND_HEDwDLwC&q=%22Failetown%2C%20Alabama%22%20-inpublisher%3Aicon&pg=PA7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Harris |first=W. |title=Alabama Place-Names |publisher=Strode Publishers |year=1982 |isbn=9780873972314 |location=Huntsville, Alabama |pages=45}}</ref>

In 1892, Coffeeville was the site for a violent confrontation around economic and racial divides that later became known as the [[Mitcham War]].<ref name=Encyclopedia>{{cite encyclopedia| title=Mitcham War| url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-3209| encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Alabama]]| accessdate=August 6, 2012| archive-date=October 30, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030200505/http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-3209| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=HistoryEngine>{{cite web| title=Start of Mitcham War| url=http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/760| work=History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research| publisher=[[University of Richmond]]| accessdate=August 6, 2012}}</ref>

In 1939, racial violence in Coffeeville was brought to the attention of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] following a near-[[lynching]] incident involving the complicity of the mayor of Coffeeville.<ref>{{cite book| last=Lovell| first=George I.| title=This Is Not Civil Rights: Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America| year=2012| publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]| location=[[Chicago, Illinois]]| isbn=9780226494036| pages=88| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TjK7rklBHzEC&q=%22Coffeeville%2C%20Alabama%22&pg=PA88}}</ref>