Items and Collections

Creator
Rabin, Jack, 1945-

Date of Original
1956/1974

Subject
Nixon, Edgar Daniel
Civil rights movements--Alabama
African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama
Civil rights--Alabama
Civil rights workers--Alabama
African American civil rights workers--Alabama
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Montgomery Improvement Association
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama
Sit-ins--Alabama
Direct action--Alabama
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
National Socialist White People's Party
White supremacy movements--Alabama
Poverty--Alabama
Poor People's Campaign
Alabama--Social conditions
Segregation--Alabama
African Americans--Segregation--Alabama
Alabama--Race relations
Civil rights workers--Southern States

People
Beecher, John, 1904-1980
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
Durr, Clifford J. (Clifford Judkins), 1899-1975
Durr, Virginia Foster
Gomillion, Charles G. (Charles Goode), 1900-1995
Hankerson, Lester
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990

Location
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434

Type
MovingImage
StillImage
InteractiveResource
Text

Description
Web site with access to the Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists which includes copies of records of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and many hours of oral history of the renowned civil liberties lawyer Clifford Durr. It also provides access to an undated filmed interview of Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) in Montgomery; 450 black-and-white photographs created by the Subversive Unit of the Investigative and Identification Division of the Alabama Department of Public Safety in the course of sit-ins, demonstrations, and marches in several Alabama cities during the early to mid-1960s; and surveillance tapes preserving speeches made variously at an anniversary meeting of the MIA in 1963, at the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March in 1965, and in Bessemer and Birmingham, Alabama, in the course of the Poor People's Campaign of 1968. The site highlights the work of John Beecher, Stokely Carmichael, Clifford and Virignia Durr, Charles Gomillion, Lester Hankerson, Myles Horton, and E. D. Nixon., 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.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/rabin.html

Original Collection
Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists, 1941-2004 (bulk 1956-1974), Accession 2002-0116H, Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University.

Contributing Institution
Pennsylvania State University. Special Collections Library

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