Guide to the Alabama Citizen's Council oral history MSS.0025
Alabama Citizen's Council
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
May 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Alabama Citizen's Council oral history
- Unit ID:
MSS.0025
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.2 Linear feet
- Dates:
1979
- Language of Materials note
English
- Abstract:
A collection of audiotapes and typed transcripts of interviews conducted with former members of the Alabama Citizen's Council from Tuscaloosa, Centerville, Birmingham, and other chapters across Alabama, by students in Dr. Culpepper Clark's SCT 536 class, spring 1979. Interviewees included both men and women and they were asked about the membership and motivations of the organization, reactions to Autherine Lucy's enrollment at the University of Alabama, the role of their chapters during the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, and related topics.
- creator
Alabama Citizens' Council.
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Scope and Contents note
A collection of audiotapes and typed transcripts of interviews conducted with former members of the Alabama Citizen's Council from Tuscaloosa, Centerville, Birmingham, and other chapters across Alabama, by students in Dr. Culpepper Clark's SCT 536 class, spring 1979. Interviewees included both men and women and they were asked about the membership and motivations of the organization, reactions to Autherine Lucy's enrollment at the University of Alabama, the role of their chapters during the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, and related topics.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Alabama Citizen's Council oral history, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama
Provenance
[None]
Biographical/Historical note
Compiled by students in SCT 536 at the University of Alabama during the spring 1979 term, under the direction of E. Culpepper Clark. The interviews were conducted with former members of the Alabama Citizen's Council, a movement formed in response to the court-ordered desegregation of public school systems.
Source(s)
Bibb County (Ala.) (lcsh)
Jefferson County (Ala.) (lcsh)
Segregation |z Alabama (lcsh)
Tuscaloosa County (Ala.) (lcsh)
White Citizens councils |z Alabama (lcsh)
Alabama Citizens Council Box 2444
Alabama Conference on Citizneship Box 1530