Ruth Barefield-Pendleton
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Miles College
Ruth Barefield-Pendleton discusses serving as secretary of the Central Committee of SCLC after growing up and teaching in Birmingham. She also served as secretary of the Urban League.
1995-03-09
video
19950309B
Dr. Richard Arrington Jr. (2001) (1 of 2)
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Pitts, Luscious
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Birmingham (Ala.). Mayor
Dr. Richard Arrington Jr. discusses growing up in Birmingham, his educational career, his time on the city council and his early years as Mayor. This interview is continued on July 24, 2001.
2001-07-23
video
20010723A
Dr. Richard Arrington Jr. (2001) (2 of 2)
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
MAPS: Metropolitan Area Projects Strategy
Dr. Richard Arrington Jr. discusses the latter part of his career as Mayor of Birmingham including the annexation of additional area, being the subject of an FBI investigation and the creation of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
2001-07-24
video
20010724A
Charles Morgan Jr.
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
Charles Morgan Jr. discusses his legal career, involvement in civil rights cases and his work with the ACLU. He also covers his iWork defending the Democratic Party in the Watergate case.
1995-02-24
video
19950224M
Colonel Stone Johnson
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Police brutality--United States
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Colonel Stone Johnson discusses being one of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's bodyguards, fighting workplace discrimination and serving on many local organizations and boards, including the BCRI.
1995-01-06
video
19950106J
Margaret Givner Brown
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham.
Police brutality--United States
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)
Margaret Givner Brown discusses growing up in Birmingham before getting involved with the Movement as a child. She was arrested at 8 years old for marching.
1996-06-13
video
19960613B
Eileen Kelley Walbert (1995)
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Police brutality--United States
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Eileen Kelley Walbert discusses getting involved in the movement after moving to Birmingham as a young adult. She participated in Movement activities, usually as the only white person. She marched in an act of white solidarity in Selma, Alabama.
1995-02-03
video
19950203W
Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery (2000)
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
United States. Supreme Court
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery discusses his extensive involvement in the Movement in Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, Nashville and Atlanta. He served in closely with Dr. King, lead the SCLC, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2009.
2000-04-11
video
20000411L
Sheyann Webb Christburg
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
Tuskegee University
Sheyann Webb Christburg discusses marching on Bloody Sunday as a seven-year-old. She co-authored the book Selma, Lord, Selma and participated in desegregating her white high school.
1998-01-29
video
19980129C
Rev. Betty Bock
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Arrington, Richard
Birmingham (Ala.)
Rev. Betty Bock discusses her path to helping create a desegregated ministry in Birmingham after growing up in Missouri. She worked with community and spiritual leaders to form a new church after lacking support through First Baptist Church.
1997-01-31
video
19970131B
Cleopatra Goree
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Cleopatra Goree discusses being born and raised in Birmingham before getting involved with the Movement as a teacher. She lived in Dynamite Hill, attended mass meetings and experienced many bombings firsthand.
1998-04-29
video
19980429G
Rev. John Cross
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
American Veterans of World War II
Rev. John Cross discusses serving as an Army Chaplin during World War II in France and Okinowa, then pastoring in Virginia before leading Sixteenth Baptist Church in the early 1960's. He was the pastor when Sixteenth Street Church was bombed in 1963.
1997-07-24
video
19970724C
Rev. Joseph Lewis Rogers
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
United States. National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Miles College
Rev. J. L. Rogers discusses being an early organizer of the Movement through his friend, Fred Shuttlesworth. Rogers worked in coal, iron and steel before becoming a pastoring Shady Grove Baptist church and serving on the board of the ACMHR.
1995-03-02
video
1995032R
Catherine Burks Brooks
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Freedom Rides, 1961
The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (Atlanta,GA.)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Catherine Burks Brooks discusses getting involved with Movement after attending Tennessee State University. She participated in the Freedom Rides and spent almost 30 days in Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary). She received recognition from Dr. King for her activism.
1996-04-29
video
19960429B
Carolyn McKinstry (1998)
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Fisk University
Carolyn McKinstry discusses getting involved in the Movement as early as eighth grade by doing clerical work at 16th Street Baptist Church where she saw Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy speak. She was the secretary there through the church bombing. McKinstry participated in various demonstrations before attending Fisk University.
1998-04-23
video
19980423M
Rev. Erskine Faush
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham
Rev. Erskine Faush discusses being involved in music and ministry throughout his early years before starting with broadcast radio. His voice, along with Shelley Stewart's, was a hallmark of Black broadcasting during the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham.
1998-11-18
video
19981118F
James Head
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Small business--Public relations
Korean War, 1950-1953
Connor, Theophilus Eugene (Bull)
James Head discusses his experience as a white businessman trying to combat racial injustice in 1960's Birmingham. He worked with journalists, politicians and Movement leaders try to change the social climate of injustice.
1995-06-30
video
19950630H
Rev. Milton Stollenwerck
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Alabama A & M University
Literacy tests (Election law)
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
Rev. Milton Stollenwerck discusses being involved with the Alabama Christian Movement as a teacher in Birmingham. He was a member of 16th Street Baptist Church when it was bombed in 1963.
1997-06-04
video
19970604S
Ruby Odom Cotton
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Ruby Odom Cotton discusses her leadership as young lady in the Movement, including the Children's Crusade and two arrests. She went on to become a banker in Birmingham and continues to spread her experience of the Movement.
1996-05-15
video
19960515C
Dorothy Cotton
Civil rights movements--Alabama—Birmingham
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Dorothy Cotton discusses working with Dr. King to establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta. She continued to work and travel with Dr. King, including organizing with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, until his assassination.
1999-04-22
video
19990422C