- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Title:
- Virginia Foster Durr
- Creator:
- Woodham, Rebecca
- Date of Original:
- 2008-06-13
- Subject:
- Women social reformers--Alabama
Civil rights workers--Alabama
Southern Conference for Human Welfare
African Americans--Southern States
Segregation--Southern States
African Americans--Segregation--Southern States
Communists--Alabama - People:
- Durr, Virginia Foster
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997 - Medium:
- articles
interactive resource - Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Virginia Foster Durr, a constant presence in Alabama politics and the movement for civil rights. She spent years working to abolish the poll tax and to end segregation, and her husband, Clifford, an attorney, was involved with a number of civil rights cases.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1574
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