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231. Interview with Alice Jackson Stuart (57:17)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Alice Jackson Stuart recounts her experiences as the first African American student to apply to the University of Virginia. When Donald Gaines Murray applied to University of Maryland Sch...

232. Interview with Allan Parker (18:53)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A
Summary:
Footage of Tuskegee, Alabama. At 10:55, William Elwood interviews Allan Parker in his yard. Parker was a banker in Tuskegee who fought for desegregation and voter registration. Parker describes his...

233. Interview with Alvin J. Bronstein (57:56)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. J. Clay Smith talks about Charles Hamilton Houston as the architect of the modern civil rights movement. From 3:50 to 10:40, footage of Houston and William Hastie portraits. From 10:40 to...

234. Interview with Anne Hobson Freeman (39:17)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Attorney Oliver Hill reviews Virginia's policy of Massive Resistance, the General Assembly's Boatwright committee and Thompson committee, Virginia courts and judges, and the people placem...

235. Interview with Beulah Crosby Johnson (1:01:43)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Professor Beulah Johnson reviews being a teacher in Tuskegee, Alabama, living in a segregated society, what the "black" part of town was like, voter registration, her involvement with the...

236. Interview with Calvin C. Green (1:09:38)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A
Summary:
Part one. Mr. Green was a public school teacher in Richmond at Jefferson Huguenot Wythe High School and also pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Saluda, Virginia. One of the most important cases in...

237. Interview with Charles G. Gomillion (1:48:53)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A
Summary:
Part one. Civil rights activist and professor Charles Gomillion attended and then taught at the Tuskegee Institute from 1928 to 1971. He talks about his year at Fisk University doing field research...

238. Interview with Charles Morgan (1:17:06)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Civil rights attorney Charles Morgan remembers Freedom Summer of 1964 and recalls hearing when Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman were missing. Mr. Morgan says that the system of justice in t...

239. Interview with Charles Todd Duncan (42:13)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A
Summary:
Part one. Civil rights attorney Charles Todd Duncan discusses his involvement with the Brown v. Board of Education cases when he worked in the law office of Frank D. Reeves. He did much research on...

240. Interview with Collins J. Seitz (2:14:22)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-1998
Summary:
Part one. Judge Collins Seitz recalls his childhood and schooling, the University of Delaware, the University of Virginia law school, and the DuPont scholarship. Part two. Mr. Seitz reports that di...