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31. Interview with Juanita Kidd Stout (1:04:10)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Judge Juanita Kidd Stout remembers hearing Charles Houston speak in 1937 in the Gaines case in Missouri and describes what it was like in the courtroom. She talks about becoming a lawyer,...

32. Interview with Julius L. Chambers (1:00:27)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Footage of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund offices including that of civil rights attorney, professor, and NAACP director counsel Julius L. Chambers. Part two. Mr. Chambers d...

33. Interview with Leone Lane (40:31)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Mrs. Leone Lane describes her career as a teacher in Chester, South Carolina. J.W. Greene joins the interview at 7:26. Part two. Mrs. Leone Lane and J.W. Greene discuss the effects of int...

34. Interview with Louis T. Rader (40:51)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Historian William H. Harbaugh describes the irony of John W. Davis defending the separate but equal doctrine in Brown v. the Board of Education and explains why Davis took the case as its...

35. Interview with Matthew J. Perry (1:14:03)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Judge Matthew Perry recalls his service in the US Army during World War II in Europe. His travels overseas allowed him to participate in a society without segregation. He discusses his up...

36. Interview with Modjeska Simkins (1:22:07)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Civil rights activist Modjeska Simkins discusses her childhood in South Carolina and the influence of her grandmother, who was a slave. She tells vivid stories of her family's ordeals wit...

37. Interview with Robert J. "Jeff" Norrell (59:39)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. History professor Jeff Norrell talks in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama, across the street from the 16th St. Baptist Church, about demonstrations there in 1963. He remarks on the...

38. Interview with Solomon S. Seay (1:39:26)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Shots of Beulah Johnson's Tuskegee house and neighborhood. At 3:40 change to William Elwood interviewing Mayor Johnny Ford outside Tuskegee municipal building about the impact of the Voti...

39. Interview with Stephen Wright (1:55:15)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Norton, James A. (James Adolphus)
Summary:
Part one. Dr. Stephen Wright, former president of Fisk University and prominent educator, is presented by James "Dolph" Norton for the Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Dr. W...

40. Interview with Wiley Branton (1:13:01)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. After serving in World War II, Wiley Branton returned to discriminatory voter registration laws in his home state of Arkansas. He participated in voter education and was arrested and conv...