Boutwell, Albert Burton

Papers, 1963-1967

(AR 264)

Boutwell was elected to the Alabama State Senate in 1946 and after serving three terms was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1958. He defeated Eugene “Bull” Connor in a run for mayor of Birmingham in 1963, and served one term as head of the city’s new mayor/council form of municipal government. This collection contains correspondence, memoranda, and other material kept by Boutwell’s office during his term as mayor. The papers contain a significant amount of material relating to urban and economic development and civil rights activities in Birmingham.

Size: 41 boxes

Boutwell, Albert

Scrapbooks, 1963-1967

(AR 575)

Newspaper clippings relating to city government and Boutwell’s activities as mayor.

Size: 5 reels microfilm

Carpenter, Charles Colcock Jones

Papers, 1920-1969

(AR 241)

Born in Augusta, Georgia, Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter was an Episcopal priest and served bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama from 1938 to 1968. He died on June 29, 1969. The papers contain the files compiled by the bishop’s office and are divided into four series: parish files, office files, financial files and supplemental files transferred from the diocesan offices at a later time. In addition to correspondence, the files include such things as bulletins, pamphlets, news clippings, photographs, sermons and building plans. The parish files contain much routine correspondence between the bishop and the parish priest and between the bishop and parishioners concerning such matters as the formation of a new mission, property purchases, new building, divorce and remarriage, loss of a priest, and the calling of a new one. The office files include correspondence with various diocesan officials, information about organizations within the church, various discern facilities and other miscellaneous matters. There is a significant amount of material relating to the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and the nation. The financial files contain material relating to various bequests and trust funds set up for the diocese.

Size: 22 boxes

Carter, Asa Earl “Ace”

Publications, 1956 and undated

(AR 1265)

Asa Earl Carter was a segregationist leader, politician, speech-writer, and novelist. He was active in the Citizens’ Council movement and the American States Rights Association and founded the North Alabama White Citizens Council. This collection contains three issues (March, April, and September-October 1956) of Carter's white supremacist newspaper The Southerner and one LP record entitled Essays of Asa Carter, Album 1. The record (purchased at a flea market by a member of the Archives staff) is the first in a series of twenty. On the record Carter reads four of his essays, "Communism: Trojan Horse," "Savage Showcase," Reconstruction Times," and "Jesse James."

Civil Rights Movement

Scrapbooks

(AR 260)

These scrapbooks, compiled by librarians at the Birmingham Public Library, contain newspaper clippings from newspapers relating to the Civil Rights Movement. The clippings are arranged in three subject areas: national civil rights events, Alabama events, and Mississippi events. The clippings are arranged chronologically within the subject areas.

Size: 12 volumes

Civil Rights Demonstrations

Photographs, 1963

(AR 783)

These photographs, taken by photographer Louis J. Willie, show events surrounding civil rights demonstrations held in Birmingham during the spring of 1963. Images include bystanders observing demonstrations and firemen awaiting demonstrators with hoses.

Size: 10 photographs

Civil Rights Movement

Scrapbooks

(AR 260)

These scrapbooks, compiled by librarians at the Birmingham Public Library, contain newspaper clippings relating to the Civil Rights Movement. The clippings are arranged in three subject areas: national civil rights events, Alabama events, and Mississippi events. The clippings are arranged chronologically within the subject areas.

Size: 12 volumes

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

“Who Speaks for Birmingham” Transcript, May 18, 1961

(AR 1179)

Size: 1 volume

Community Relations Service

Racial Files, 1964-1968

(AR 733)

This collection contains copies of correspondence, reports, memorandums and other material relating to civil rights activities in Birmingham.

Size: 2 boxes

Community Service Council

Annual Reports, 1964-1971

(AR 521)

The Community Service Council was the successor organization to the Jefferson County Coordinating Council of Social Forces.

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Community Service Council

By-Laws, 1969-1970

(AR 522)

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Community Service Council

Manuscripts, 1958-1959

(AR 523)

This collection contains a manuscript entitled “A Vision for the Birmingham Community, written in 1958 and records of the Health Council for the years 1958-1959.

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Concerned Citizens for Racially Free America, Inc.

Publications, 1994-

(AR 1652)

Size: 1 box

Concerned White Citizens of Alabama

Papers, 1965

(AR 212)

This collection includes the organization’s constitution, minutes of meetings, membership list, correspondence, subject files and newspaper clippings.

Size: 1 box

Congress of Racial Equality

Papers, 1941-1967

(AR 527)

Size: 52 reels microfilm

Connor, Theophilus Eugene ‘Bull’

Papers, 1959-1963

(AR 268)

Theophilus Eugene Connor was born in Dallas County, Alabama in 1897. Trained as a telegraph operator, Connor eventually settled in Birmingham, Alabama where he worked as a radio sports announcer. Capitalizing on his popularity with radio listeners and on his well known nickname (“Bull”), Connor entered politics in 1934 and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives. Connor was elected Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham in 1937, a position that gave him administrative authority over the city’s police and fire departments. He remained Public Safety Commissioner until 1954, and held the position again from 1958 to 1963 when he was forced from office by a change in the form of the city government. During his long political career Connor ran two unsuccessful campaigns for governor of Alabama and was a leader of the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt. From 1964 to 1972 he served as a member of the Alabama Public Service Commission, the state body that regulates public utilities. Connor died in Birmingham in 1973. “Bull” Connor is most famous for ordering the use of police dogs and fire hoses to disperse civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham during the spring of 1963. This collection contains the office files from Connor’s last two terms as Public Safety Commissioner. The files from his earlier terms were destroyed in the 1950s.

Size: 22 reels microfilm

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