Publication

1977 - , No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

94,250 words, Guess

Page Count

377 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCCT275.D8848

Alternate 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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • New York times oral history program -- [1]

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