The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

UAB Archives oral history interview collection

Repository: University of Alabama at Birmingham. Archives

Collection Description (CRHP): This collection consists of four discrete oral history collections: The UAB Faculty Alumni Club Project, the Department of Medicine Project, the Volker Archives Project, and the Medical Center Anniversary Project. In all collections, interviewees discuss direct involvement in civil rights-related activities on some level.

Collection Description (Extant): This artificially created collection consists of numerous oral history interview transcripts and audio tapes which have been combined to form one collection of oral histories.

Date(s): 1989-1995

Existing IDs: MC45

Finding Aid: Finding Aid available at repository

Language: English

Interviewees: Oscar W. Adams, Blanche B. Alexander, Mary "Polly" Ayers, Samuel Booth Barker, J. Rufus Bealle, J. Jefferson Bennett, Thomas M. Boulware, W. Paul Brann, John A. Caddell, Ehney A. Camp, Alan Dimick, John B. Dunbar, Hal Ferguson, Arthur G. Garikes, Fain A. Guthrie, Roger W. Hanson, S. Richardson Hill, Basil I. Hirschowitz, Jack D. L. Holmes, Gloria Goldstein Howton, Sidney P. Kent, Margaret Strange Klapper, Frederick W. Kraus, Janie Matthews, Charles A. McCallum Jr., Holt A. McDowell Jr., Matthew F. McNulty Jr., James T. Montgomery, E. Lindsey Oden, Marie L. O'Koren, James A. Pittman Jr., T. Joseph Reeves, Leonard Robinson, Frank A. Rose, Abraham Russakoff, Arthur D. Shores, F. Juell Whitt, Louis J. Willie.

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham
College integration--Alabama
Health facilities
University of Alabama

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings
Transcripts