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:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc.
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Marion Barry conducted in 1979 for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centered on sit-ins, decision-making within the Civil Rights movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Johnson, Henry
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview conducted with Virginia Durr as part of America, They Loved You Madly in 1979, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on segregation in Montgomery and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Hampton, Henry, Richardson, Judy
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Peter Orris conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his involvement with SNCC and voter registration drives as part of Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Arndt, Prudence
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Amzie Moore conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on life under segregation, his activism, and cases of lynching that he investigated, including the Emmett Till case.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Richardson, Judy
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:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Joseph Azbell conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Montgomery bus boycott, E. D. Nixon, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Amiri Baraka conducted for Eyes on the Prize II. Discussion centers on Malcolm X,, the Black Arts movement, the Black Liberation Movement and the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana. Interview was also used for the production, Malcolm X: Make It Plain.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Richardson, Judy
Publisher:
Blackside, Inc., Washington University in St. Louis