- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Colonel Stone Johnson
- Contributor to Resource:
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Date of Original:
- 1918/1969
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans--Violence against--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham
Intimidation--Alabama--Birmingham
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Bombings--Birmingham--Alabama
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Crime prevention--Citizen participation
Police brutality--Alabama--Birmingham
Birmingham (Ala.)--Social life and customs
African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham
Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations
Discrimination in employment--Alabama--Birmingham - People:
- Johnson, Stone, 1918-
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Lowndes County, 32.15475, -86.65011 - Medium:
- instructional materials
teaching guides
resource units
interviews
oral histories (literary works)
transcripts - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- text/html
video/quicktime - Description:
- Instructional Web page recommended for grades six through twelve featuring the transcript of a 1995 oral history interview with Birmingham, Alabama civil rights worker and labor activist Stone Johnson. During the Civil Rights movement, black civil rights activists often risked their lives to promote racial equality. Colonel Stone Johnson, shown in this interview, was among those who offered protection and tried to prevent violence against African Americans, which ranged from beatings to bombings.
Includes a background essay, discussion questions, and alignments to teaching standards.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 6-12.
A transcript of the Quicktime movie is available.
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:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.johnson/
- Rights Holder:
- The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Extent:
- text/pdf
4.9 Mb
ca.3m 34s - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
