The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

BCRI oral history collection

Repository: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)

Collection Description (Extant): An on-going project, the BCRI Oral History Project Collection contains over 400 interviews on audio and video cassette. Of those, over 200 have been transcribed in full. All formats--audiocassette, videocassette and printed transcript--are available to the public in the Ed LaMonte Reading Room of the BCRI Archives.

Collection URL: http://www.bcri.org/archives/oral_history_project/Introduction.html

Language: English

Interviewees: Jerome "Buddy" Cooper, Hattie Felder, Mattie Haywood, Colonel Stone Johnson, James T. Montgomery, Reuben Davis, Florida Hamilton, Lamar Weaver, Calvin Woods, Fred Shuttlesworth, Lola Hendricks, Jesse Champion, Nims Gray, Rosa Washington, Carolyn Cunningham, Virginia Volker, Emma Young, Joe Dickson, Frank Dukes, James Armstrong, Carrie Hamilton Lock, Elizabeth Fitts, Meriam McClendon, Eileen Walbert, David Vann

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

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama
Alabama
Civil rights movements--Alabama
Civil rights workers--Alabama

Genres:

Sound recordings
Videorecordings