- Collection:
- Oral Histories
- Title:
- Dallas County Sheriff's Department Civil Rights Surveillance Recording. Tapes 2-3.
- Publisher:
- Dallas County (Ala.). Department of the Sheriff
Birmingham, Ala. : Birmingham Public Library - Date of Original:
- 1965-01-25
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Selma
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Selma
Civil rights--Alabama--Selma - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Cooper, Annie Lee - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- open reel audiotapes
MP3 - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tapes #2 and #3, location unknown, January 25, 1965 (16 minutes). Recording opens with King talking
discusses court injunctions relating to voter registration and movement car pools
violence perpetrated by “white people on the lunatic fringe” and his theory that white guilt drives much of the white violence
discusses an incident that day in which Annie Lee Cooper, an African American woman who had been waiting to register to vote became involved in an altercation with Sheriff Jim Clark and others (this incident is discussed in the books Protest at Selma by David J. Garrow and Selma 1965 by Charles E. Fager)
references the Montgomery bus boycott and tells the crowd “there are some difficult days ahead. It’s still midnight in Selma.” An unidentified speaker introduces the hymn I Feel Like Going On and announces that Ralph Abernathy will speak next. Recording ends. - Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15099coll2/id/1231
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p15099coll2:1231/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material may be protected under Title 17 of the U. S. Copyright Law which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research.
- Extent:
- 16 min.
- Original Collection:
- Dallas County, Ala. Sheriff's Department Civil Rights Surveillance Recordings, 1965
- Contributing Institution:
- Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)
- Rights:
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