[Selma, AL; September/October, 1963]
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McNamara, Norris
label: Collection Creator
content: Moon, Moses
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content: Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection
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content: Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection / Series 1: Original Tapes
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content: Box 6 (Reference)
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content: Box 3, Item AC0556-OT_SE_5.1
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Audio
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content: Alan Ribback interviews unidentified people in line on the street waiting to register to vote.
-Discusses problems with registering, including the questions that people were asked before they could register
-Difficulties with registering in the past
-Points out that there are whites in line as well – probably part of a League of Women Voters effort to get more (white) people registered.
Ribback talks with one man about Democrat/Republican history and divide in Selma, Alabama.
Line not moving despite the fact that they were supposed to open by 9:00 and about 250 people are on line. Another method of keeping blacks from voting.
(Sounds like James Baldwin is talking track 5 on access CD)
Ribback speaks with Mrs. Boyington who has been involved with previous voter registration efforts.
At 8:30 eight white people at head of line, by 11:30 only those whites and four blacks had been processed.
At 11:45 approximately 295 people in line
Sheriff Jim Clark arrested two people holding signs on courthouse steps
Alabama State troopers arrive
(Background noises – voices, cars, etc.