Social activism and civil rights
By: Virginia F. Durr
Series: New York times oral history program -- [1]
Published: 1977
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Politics and government; Sources; Race relations; Interviews; Civil rights workers
Other titles: Durr, Virginia F.
Description: Civil rights activist. Topics include: family history and background, Birmingham society; Hugo Black; marriage and move to Washington; recollections of New Deal Washington; Reconstruction Finance Corporation, poll tax, unions, La Follette Committee hearings; Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham; Brown decision; Internal Security Sub-Committee, Dies Committee; 1948 campaign and Henry A. Wallace; return to Alabama, 1951 civil rights activities, bus boycott, freedom riders, Selma march, Black Power movement; Southern issues, Southern women. Impressions of many Washington figures, including Lyndon Johnson, Justice Brandeis, James Eastland.
Notes: Transcript of interviews conducted for the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University by William D. Barnard in 1974.

Includes index.

Microfiche of typescript. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, c1977. -- 4 sheets ; 11 X 15 cm. -- (Columbia University oral history collection ; pt. 3, no. 201)