Filmed interview with Sheriff Melvin (Mel) Bailey conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on life in Birmingham under segregation, the 1963 integration campaign, and conflicts between Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor and other officials in the city government, including Laurie...Show full record
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc.
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview of Laurie Pritchett conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his actions as police chief of Albany, Georgia during the Albany movement of 1961-62.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., DeVinney, James A.
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with James Peck conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his participation in the Freedom Rides.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Hampton, Henry
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview of Rachel West Nelson conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on life in segregated Alabama and the Selma voting rights campaign.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview of Richard Valeriani conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on covering civil rights campaigns in Alabama as a correspondent for NBC.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Sheyann Webb (also known as Sheyann Webb-Christburg) conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on growing up in segregated Alabama and the Selma voting rights campaign.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Harry Briggs Jr. for Eyes on the Prize. He discussed conditions in segregated schools in South Carolina, his parents' lawsuit, and retaliation against his family as a result of the suit.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Bagwell, Orlando
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.