The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Alabama Citizen's Council oral history

Repository: University of Alabama. W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library

Collection Description (Extant): 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.

Date(s): 1979

Digital Status: Unknown

Extent: .2 linear feet

Language: English

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

Subjects:

College integration--Alabama
Lucy, Autherine, 1930-
White Citizens councils
Whites--Alabama

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings
Transcripts