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This project features interviews with civil rights activists. They discuss their involvement in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund. Some of the main topics include segregation, poverty, legislation, and poll taxes.
Braden, Anne
Durr, Virginia Foster
Robinson, Amelia R. B.
Shuttlesworth, Fred
Weber, Frederick Palmer
| Interviewee: | Braden, Anne |
| Call number: | 83-053 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | October 10, 1983 |
| Physical Description: | 35 pp.; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 90 minutes |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Reed, Linda |
Anne Braden, born September 28, 1924, discusses her work with the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the Southern Conference Education Fund. She describes the disenfranchisement of the depression era South and the need for worker, economic and civil rights for Black Americans. She also talks about the structure of the SCEF and its growth into a powerful organization.
Congress of Industrial Organizations
House Un-American Activities Committee
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Dombrowski, James A.
Foreman, Clark
Gelders, Joseph
Horton, Myles
Maund, Alfred
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Wallace, Henry A.
Birmingham, Alabama
Louisville, Kentucky
civil rights activist
Southern Patriot
civil rights
economic rights
health care discrimination
integrated unions
racial segregation
voting rights
| Interviewee: | Durr, Virginia Foster |
| Call number: | 83-001 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | December 29, 1982 |
| Physical Description: | 31 pp.; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 1 hour 12 minutes |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Reed, Linda |
Virginia Foster Durr, born August 6, 1903, describes her involvement in the civil rights movement in the South beginning in the 1930s. She discusses her involvement with the Red Cross, the Democratic National Committee, and the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax. She explains conditions for the poor and African-American communities of the South during the Great Depression and World War II. She discusses the poll tax, segregation, grandfather provisions, and rickets.
American Red Cross
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Jewish Defense League
National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax
Women's Division of the Democratic National
Committee
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Charlton, Louise O.
Connor, Theophilus Eugene "Bull"
Dombrowski, James A.
Farley, Jim
Gelders, Joseph
Lamar, Rachel
Lewis, John L.
Mason, Lucy Randolph
Morgan, Roberta
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Smith, Ed "Cotton"
Birmingham, Alabama
Fair Employment Practices Bill
Great Depression
McCarthyism
New Deal
Southern economic conditions
World War II
grandfather clauses
poll tax
racial segregation
rickets
| Interviewee: | Robinson, Amelia R. B. |
| Call number: | 83-039 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | July 26, 1983 |
| Physical Description: | 30 pp.; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 73 minutes; transcript incomplete |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Reed, Linda |
Amelia R. B. Robinson was born August 18, 1911 in Savannah, Georgia. She discusses her education and her activism. She was an active civil rights leader in Selma, Alabama. She helped Black men and women register to vote and learn how to become financially stable. She worked to help sharecroppers buy their own land.
Bethune-Cookman Institute
Dallas County Community Center
National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Durr, Virginia F.
Selma, Alabama
Bridge Across
Jordan
civil rights
sharecropping
voting rights
| Interviewee: | Shuttlesworth, Fred |
| Call number: | 83-035 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | July 2, 1983 |
| Physical Description: | 23 pp.; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 55 minutes; brief sketch on interviewee |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Reed, Linda |
Fred Shuttlesworth discusses his membership in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. He also describes the harassment he endured while he was an active member of the Civil Rights Movement.
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Abernathy, Ralph D.
Braden, Anne
Dombrowski, James A.
Durr, Virginia F.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Williams, Aubrey
Birmingham, Alabama
Atlantic
Constitution
Civil Rights Movement
civil liberties
civil rights demonstrations
racial integration
racial violence
| Interviewee: | Weber, Frederick Palmer |
| Call number: | 83-054 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | November 13, 1983 |
| Physical Description: | 21 pp.; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 75 minutes |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Reed, Linda |
Frederick Palmer Weber, born March 13, 1914, discusses his education at the University of Virginia and his involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. He includes topics such as the poll tax, segregation, the NAACP, and Communism.
Congress of Industrial Organizations
NAACP
United States Farm Security Administration
University of Virginia
Baldwin, Calvin Benham
Bender, George
Dombrowski, James A.
Durr, Clifford J.
Durr, Virginia F.
Foreman, Clark
economist
Communism
New Deal
Red Scare
constitutional test cases
no-discrimination clause
poll tax
racial discrimination
racial equality
racial segregation