The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College. Library

3086 Mobile Highway
Montgomery, Alabama 36108

Phone: 334-420-4475

Repository URL: http://www.trenholmtech.cc.al.us/index.php?id=archives

Repository description (CRHP): Highlights at this repository include the Gwendolyn M. Patton collection, which includes nearly a hundred oral history interviews pertaining to civil rights in Montgomery and voting rights.

Repository description (extant): The Division of Institutional Archives and Special Collections of Montgomery's Pioneer Voting Rights Activists is housed in the Library. The purpose of the Archives is to preserve institutional records and the history and legacy of Montgomery's Voting Rights Movement for retrieval by the College's personnel, students, researchers, scholars and the general public. The Archives also conducts and reposits visual and aural interviews of pioneer voting rights activists. The Archives produces programs and multi-media presentations for institutional and public outreach.

Our commitment is to public access of open Institutional records and Special Collections. We will provide competent and knowledgeable personnel to advise you about the College's finding aids and resources. We will treat all patrons with courtesy and respect.

Repository type: University Special Collection

Collections:

Gwendolyn M. Patton [oral history collection]