Foster, Vera Chandler

Papers, 1958-1971

(AR 234)

This collection contains letters to and from Foster concerning her participation in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. There is also a small amount of material relating to racial relations in Alabama during the early 1960s.

Size: 1 box

Johnston, Paul

Papers, 1963-1980

(AR 99)

Paul Johnston is a Birmingham attorney. This collection contains personal and professional correspondence documenting Johnston’s involvement in civil rights cases, education, water fluoridation and other issues. The collection includes two files relating to Johnston’s defense of Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and was present during the beating of Freedom Riders in Birmingham in 1961 and the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo following the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.

Size: 4 boxes

Jimerson, Norman C.

Oral History Interviews, 1992

(AR 1784)

In 1961, Norman Jimerson became the Executive Director of the Alabama Council on Human Relations, in Birmingham, Alabama. The Alabama Council was a state affiliate of the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Council. From his office in Birmingham, Jimerson traveled throughout the state visiting local chapters of the Alabama Council and attempted to establish lines of communication between the largely black Civil Rights leadership and demonstrators and the white business and civic leaders. He left the position in August 1964. This series of four oral history interviews, conducted by Norman Jimerson’s son Randall Jimerson in 1992, focus on the three years in which Norman Jimerson was the Executive Director of the Alabama Council on Human Relations and examine his role as a behind-the-scenes negotiator during the Civil Rights Movement.

Size: 1 box

Keller, Mary E.

"Sketches in Black and White: A History of Inter-Racial Work, Synodical of Alabama,

1916-1944"

(AR 1753)

At the time this work was apparently written Mary E. Keller served as office secretary at Woodlawn Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. This collection contains a photocopy of a typescript entitled "Sketches in Black and White: A History of Inter-Racial Work, Synodical of Alabama, 1916-1944." The history deals with the Presbyterian Church and African Americans in Alabama.

Size: 1 volume

Kennedy, Robert F.

Civil Rights Files on Alabama, 1961-1963

(AR 299)

This collection, photocopies of documents from the John F. Kennedy Library, contains correspondence and other material collected by Attorney General Kennedy relating to the Freedom Rides, the integration of the University of Alabama, civil rights activities in Birmingham and Gadsden, and meetings held with Alabama businessmen, attorneys and religious leaders.

Size: 1 box

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Scrapbooks, 1956-1968

(AR 1205)

Newspaper clippings compiled by the staff of the Birmingham Public Library’s Southern History Department on King’s civil rights activities.

Size: 2 volumes

Ku Klux Klan

Scrapbooks, 1913-1967

(AR 257)

These scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings relating to local and national Klan activities.

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Marshall, Burke

Files on Civil Rights in Alabama, 1961-1963

(AR 300)

A 1951 graduate of Yale Law School, Burke Marshall served as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Justice from 1961 to 1965. In this capacity he was involved in, and present during, a number of racial crises in Alabama including the 1963 demonstrations in Birmingham and the desegregation of the University of Alabama. This collection contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, FBI reports, newspaper clippings, and other material generated by or collected by Burke Marshall during his service as U. S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Covering the period 1961 to 1965, the material relates to

Size: 3 boxes

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Alabama Files, 1940-1955

(AR 501)

These files contain correspondence and other material between the national NAACP office and various Alabama branches. The bulk of the correspondence relates to the issuing of branch charters and membership. Some files also contain small amounts of material relating to race relations in Birmingham and other areas of Alabama.

Size: 3 reels microfilm

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Files: The Scottsboro Case, 1931-1950

(AR 1438)

Size: 5 reels microfilm

National Conference of Christians and Jews

Alabama Region Office Records, 1950s-1970s

(AR 567)

Size: 10 boxes

Oppenborn, Carolyn Potter

Papers Relating to Jonathan Myrick Daniels

(AR 1745)

Jonathan Myrick Daniels was born in 1939 in Keene, New Hampshire. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute, Daniels was enrolled at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts when he traveled to Alabama in 1965 to work with a voter registration drive in Selma. After the Selma to Montgomery March Daniels began work with the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Lowndes County. He was arrested along with other civil rights demonstrators in August 1965. After six days in jail in Hayneville the demonstrators were released. Daniels and three others approached a store in Hayneville to buy soft drinks. A local white man, Tom Coleman, ordered the group away from the store. When Daniels questioned the order Coleman shot and killed Daniels. Six weeks later an all-white Lowndes County jury found that Coleman had acted in self-defense. Carolyn Potter Oppenborn, who gathered the material in this collection, was born in 1913 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Oppenborn worked as a secretary in Washington, D.C. for the National Recovery Administration and later was employed by the Jefferson County, Alabama Personnel Board and by the Birmingham Museum of Art. This collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs and other material relating to Jonathan Myrick Daniels. This material was gathered in preparation for and as a result of the program "A Weekend to Remember … The Thirtieth Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Jonathan Myrick Daniels." The Program was held at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama, September 12-13, 1995 and included a number of participants who had known and worked with Daniels. Smaller programs recognizing Daniels were held at the church in subsequent years.

Size: 1 box

Race Relations Information Center

Facts on Film, 1950s-1970s

(AR 1445)

Newspaper clippings relating to race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

Size: 352 reels microfilm

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