Arranged by topic and then in chronological order, by the earliest
date of items in each sub-series.
Sub-series 1: Johnnie Carr and the Montgomery
Improvement Association
Johnnie Carr and the Montgomery Improvement Association,
1948-1997 (bulk 1956-1974)
0.9 cubic feet plus 2 items
Sub-series 1 derives mainly from institutional records and
personal papers filmed under Rabin's supervision in 1975. Johnnie Rebecca Carr
(1911-) was a founding member of the MIA when it formed in 1955 in response to
Rosa Parks's arrest and in support of the ensuing bus boycott. In 1967 Carr
became the fifth president of the MIA, following the Reverends King, Abernathy,
Solomon Seay, Sr., and Jesse L. Douglas, all of whom figure in these records.
Carr retained that position permanently, and at the time of writing (2005), in
her mid-90s, she remained active as its president. Original MIA documents
reside in "The Collection of the Montgomery Improvement Association" at the
National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at
Alabama State University in Montgomery
(http://www.lib.alasu.edu/natctr/collections.htm), but a preliminary inquiry
suggests that Rabin may have filmed a substantial number of documents that did
not make their way into the Alabama archives. Appendix I.1A, a listing of
contents, provides an aid to locating items among the roughly 2,500 pages of
printouts from the microfilms, in the order in which these documents were
filmed. The preponderance of documents pertains to finances and membership.
Other categories include general correspondence, executive records, official
publications (including newsletters and anniversary programs), and reference
publications on civil rights topics. Records on school integration drives and
voter registration drives include a "Handbook for Testing the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 in Alabama." Among the scattered office manuscripts are anonymous
handwritten speeches, as well as two anonymous typewritten essays: "A People
Struggling for Freedom and Human Dignity through Love and Non-Violence" (circa
early 1956); and a four-page summary of landmarks in the history of the MIA
from 1955 to 1964. Independent of materials obtained from Carr, the sub-series
also holds color slides of MIA anniversary programs of 1956-1958; an Alabama
Department of Public Safety surveillance tape of the MIA's 8th anniversary
meeting in 1963--for details, see #0602 in Appendix A and the transcript,
Appendix I.1B; color slides from 1974 of many Montgomery churches associated
with the MIA; and a book on the MIA, from 1997.
In addition to securing microfilm copies of records from Johnnie
Carr, Rabin and his colleague Danny Crapps gave a paper (now lost) entitled
"Black Churches in Montgomery and the Civil Rights Movement" at the 19th Annual
Meeting of the MIA in December 1974. A number of color slides survive from this
project. Details follow the inventory of the MIA microfilms.
Papers and records of Johnnie Carr and the MIA,
1948-1974
Box 1
Folder 01
Printout of the itemized list of contents of microfilm
reels 01 and 02 (Appendix I.1A)
Box 1
Folder 02
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 001-053,
1959-1971
Box 1
Folder 03
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 054-103,
1957-1971
Box 1
Folder 04
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 104-146,
1957-1974
Box 1
Folder 05
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 147-180,
1957-1966
Box 1
Folder 06
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 181-195,
1957-1968
Box 1
Folder 07
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Item 196, financial records of employees of the MIA, with individual
financial records redacted,
1958-1964
Box 1
Folder 08
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 197-208,
1959-1965
Box 1
Folder 09
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 209-258,
1957-1966
Box 1
Folder 10
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 259-292,
1948-1974
Box 1
Folder 11
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 293-340,
1948-1974
Box 1
Folder 12
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 341-345,
1954-1971
Box 1
Folder 13
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Items 346-353,
1956-1974
Box 1
Folder 14
Printouts from the microfilms, as itemized in Folder
01: Item 354, invoice for microfilming,
1975
Box 7
Reel 1
Microfilm 16mm,
1957-1974
Box 7
Reel 2
Microfilm 16mm,
1948-1974
Box 1
Folder 15
Speeches by Solomon Seay, Sr., and Ralph Abernathy at
the 8th anniversary meeting of the MIA, December 5, 1963: Transcript of
audiotape 06, program 02 (Appendix I.1B)
1963
Box 7
Compact disc 0602AE
Speeches by Solomon Seay, Sr., and Ralph Abernathy at
the 8th anniversary meeting of the MIA, December 5, 1963: Recordings (final
edited copy),
1963
Audiotape 06, program 02, the left channel, side A.
Duration: 44:01
Box 7
Compact disc 0602LAC
Speeches by Solomon Seay, Sr., and Ralph Abernathy at
the 8th anniversary meeting of the MIA, December 5, 1963: Recordings
(transitional copy),
1963
Intelligible, unedited copy of 5-inch audiotape 06,
program 02, the left channel, side A
Box 7
Compact disc 0602LAT
Speeches by Solomon Seay, Sr., and Ralph Abernathy at
the 8th anniversary meeting of the MIA, December 5, 1963: Recordings
(transitional copy),
1963
Unintelligible, double-speed copy of 5-inch audiotape
06, program 02, the left channel, side A
Tape
7-inch reel-to-reel audiotape 06
Speeches by Solomon Seay, Sr., and Ralph Abernathy at
the 8th anniversary meeting of the MIA, December 5, 1963: Recordings
(transitional copy),
1963
Rabin's copy of 5-inch audiotape 06
Tape
5-inch reel-to-reel audiotape 06
Speeches by Solomon Seay, Sr., and Ralph Abernathy at
the 8th anniversary meeting of the MIA, December 5, 1963: Recordings (original
source),
1963
Box 3
Folder 01
Images of churches and documents: African American
churches in Montgomery, Alabama (35-mm color slides),
1974 July
2 exterior and 2 interior shots of Holt Street Baptist
Church.
Box 3
Folder 02
Images of churches and documents: African American
churches in Montgomery, Alabama (35-mm color slides),
1974 October
3 exterior shots of Bethel Baptist Church; 1 exterior
shot of Bryant Street Baptist Church; 2 exterior and 2 interior shots of Mt.
Zion A.M.E. Church; 3 exterior shots of Day Street Baptist Church; 1 interior
shot of Holt Street Baptist Church; 3 exterior shots of Old Ship A.M.E. Zion
Church; 2 exterior shots of Oak Street A.M.E. Zion Church; 2 exterior shots of
The First C.M.E. Church
Box 3
Folder 03
Images of churches and documents: African American
churches in Montgomery, Alabama (35-mm color slides),
1974 October
2 exterior shots of Hilliard Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church;
2 exterior shots of The People's Baptist Church; 2 exterior shots of Triumph
Church; 1 exterior shot of Clinton Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church; 1 interior shot
of a poster illustrating notable African-Americans, presumably taken in a
Montgomery church; 4 exterior shots of Beulah Baptist Church; 3 exterior shots
of Lilly Baptist Church; 3 exterior shots of Hall Street Baptist
Church
Box 3
Folder 04
Images of churches and documents: African American
churches in Montgomery, Alabama (35-mm color slides),
1974 October
2 exterior shots and 1 interior shot of St. John A.M.E.
Church; 7 exterior shots of Maggie Street Baptist Church; 2 exterior and 5
interior shots of First Baptist Church, and 2 slides of the church
bell
Box 3
Folder 05
Images of churches and documents: Documents,
1974 December
"Statement of the President of the Montgomery
Improvement Association, the Rev. M. L. King, Jr., December 20, 1956"; 4 cover
pages of a paper entitled "Black Churches in Montgomery and the Civil Rights
Movement," by Jack Rabin and Danny Crapps; 9 programs given by the MIA between
1956 and 1958
Box 1
Folder 16
MIA miscellany,
1973
Montgomery Bus Boycott Questionnaire, typescript form
prepared by Jack Rabin (18 pages)
Box 1
Folder 17
MIA miscellany,
1997
Stewart Burns, ed.
Daybreak of Freedom: the Montgomery Bus Boycott
(Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina, 1997)
Sub-series 3: Demonstrations, sit-ins, surveillance,
and arrests
Demonstrations, sit-ins, surveillance, and arrests,
1957-1963 (bulk 1960-1963)
0.1 cubic feet plus 1 item
Sub-series 3 consists of a 1957 film on worldwide civil rights
actions, and, far more significantly, black-and-white photographs taken or
collected by the Subversive Unit from 1960 to 1963. The events covered are as
follows: unidentified African-American undergraduates from Alabama State
College standing in a hallway of the Montgomery County Courthouse following an
attempt to receive service at the snack bar in the courthouse basement on
February 25, 1960; a lunch-counter sit-in, dated circa 1960, at Murphy's
Parkway Center in an unidentified city, including a probable image of a young
Stokely Carmichael; shots of a lunch-counter sit-in on January 31, 1962, at
Woolworth's in Huntsville, Alabama, including, with certainty, Carmichael;
subsequent arrest photos allegedly deriving from this incident at Woolworth's;
surveillance photos of three white adults--James Dombrowksi, executive director
of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF), and his successors in that
position, Ann Braden and Carl Braden, at the SCEF conference in Birmingham,
Alabama, in 1962; an arrest photo of Bob [John Robert] Zellner, the first white
field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), in
Montgomery in 1962; scenes from a demonstration in front of the Etowah County
courthouse in Gadsden, Alabama, dated circa 1961 on the reverse of the
photographs, but almost certainly situated within the series of protests that
took place in Gadsden from June to September, 1963; a photograph of James Hood,
an African-American young man from Gadsden who had enrolled at the University
of Alabama and immediately thereafter was forced to withdraw on the basis of
statements recorded by members of the Subversive Unit in the course of a speech
that Hood made during the Gadsden protests; and an undated arrest photo of
Ralph Abernathy.
Film 01
Walk to Freedom
circa 1957
A 15-minute 16mm film documentary from the Fellowship
of Reconciliation, situating the efforts of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King,
Jr., and others within the context of worldwide struggles for civil rights.
Box 6
Folder 01
Items 365-369
Photographs: Montgomery County Courthouse sit-in,
1960
Photographs of 11 unidentified African American Alabama
State College students following a sit-in at the snack bar in the basement of
the Montgomery County Courthouse. The reverse sides of all five photos bear a
Center for the Study of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights stamp, with variants
of the caption "Ala. St. Univ. Students Arrested / Montgomery County Courthouse
/ 2/10/60," photo taken by "State Patrol." Two of the photos feature additional
stamps: "State of Alabama / Department of Public Safety / Investigative &
Identification Division / P. O. Box 1511 / Montgomery 2, Alabama / Montgomery,
Alabama," "Feb 25 1960," and a file number, "51-6." According to J. Mills
Thornton, III,
Dividing Lines (Tuscaloosa and London:
University of Alabama, 2002), p.113, the correct date for this incident is
February 25, 1960, not February 10. For related newspaper articles and a
photograph from this same event, see Sub-series 2, the Rufus Lewis Scrapbook,
box 2, folder 6, items 405 and 412, Gene Kovarik, "Negroes Disband After March
Into Courthouse Here,"
Alabama Journal, February 26, 1960, and item
#408, "Resolution Hits Expelling of Ala. State College Students,"
Birmingham World, March 9, 1960
Box 6
Folder 02
Items 376, 390-402, 404, 407-412,
414
Photographs: Woolworth's sit-in, Huntsville, Alabama,
1962 January 31
Photographs of a lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworth's.
The 30 photographs comprise 21 separate images, with two copies each of items
395-402 and 404. Captions on the Center's stamp identify these as a "Lunch
Counter Sit In / CORE / Huntsville, Ala. Woolworth's," taken "1/31/62"
by the "State Patrol." Handwritten captions identify item 376 as Roland Dawson
and 392 as Johnnie Jackson. Item 408 is a previously unidentified photo of
Stokely Carmichael; compare this shot to the plates in his autobiography,
Stokely Carmichael with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell,
Ready for Revolution (New York: Scribner, 2003).
All other individuals are unidentified. The sign "Woolworth's Luncheonette" is
visible only in item 398, but interrelationships of architecture, decor, and
furnishings make it clear that all 22 images were taken at the luncheonette. A
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) hat and a CORE armband are visible in
several photos.
Box 6
Folder 03
Items 377-389
Photographs: Woolworth's sit-in, Huntsville, Alabama,
1962
Photographs of 13 African-Americans arrested in 1962.
The individual images were taken, according to the Center's caption, by the
"State Patrol" on "1/31/62" at the CORE lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworth's in
Huntsville, Alabama (see directly above, box 6, folder 2). Individual
identifications are written in another hand over the Center's stamp and
captions: Mary Jo Hamlett, John Sims; Betty Crutcher, Yvette Burns, Robert
Matthews, Jimmy Houston, James Allen Kelley, Paul Robinson, Nathaniel Sullivan,
Shirley Johnson, Betty Battles, Ralph Morris, and Alvin Green. None of these
individuals appear in the photos taken at Woolworth's. Also, most of the
arrested men are wearing neckties, whereas those men at Woolworth's are well
dressed, but in comparatively casual clothing. Might these arrest photos derive
from a different demonstration?
Box 6
Folder 04
Items 403, 405, 406, 413
Photographs: Murphy's sit-in, unknown location,
1962?
Photographs of a lunch-counter protest at Murphy's
Parkway Center, 1962?. There are five photographs, including two copies of item
403. Captions on the Center's stamp misidentify items 403 and 406 as belonging
to the lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworth's (see Box 6, Folder 02). The
unidentified man in item 403 appears a second time, in item 405, seated beneath
a "Murphy's Parkway Center" sign (not a Woolworth's sign). Another sign, "G. C.
Murphy," is visible in the background of item 406, in which Stokely Carmichael
is probably the man standing in the right foreground.
Box 6
Folder 05
Items 370-373
Photographs: Southern Conference Education Fund
conference participants, Birmingham, Alabama,
1962
The Center's captions identify these 4 photographs as
two images of James Dombrowski and one each of Ann Braden and Carl Braden, all
taken by the "State Patrol" at a Southern Conference Education Fund conference
in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1962.
Box 6
Folder 06
Item 375
Photographs: Bob Zellner's arrest in Montgomery,
1962
Photograph of Bob Zellner on the occasion of his arrest
on April 27, 1962. A stamp on the reverse, headed "Dept. of Pub. Safety I & I
Div., Montgomery, Alabama," gives his full name, John Robert Zellner, his vital
statistics, the date "4-27-62," the charge "Conspiracy to Violate the Trespass
Law," the remark "(Huntingdon Coll. campus?)," and an address--presumably
Zellner's--in Atlanta, Georgia.
Box 6
Folder 07
Items 415-433
Photographs: Gadsden, Alabama, demonstrations,
1963
The Center's captions identify these 19 "State Patrol"
images as belonging to demonstrations in front of the courthouse in Gadsden,
Alabama, circa 1961, but this date is certainly wrong. A series of protests
occurred in Gadsden between June and September, 1963; extensive coverage
appeared in the
New York Times throughout these
months.
Box 6
Folder 08
Item 434
Photographs: James Hood,
1963
The Center's caption identifies the subject of this
portrait, taken by the "State Patrol," as James Hood, and the location as
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. For Hood's relation to the Gadsden demonstrations, see the
series description in Sub-series 3.
Box 6
Folder 09
Item 374
Photographs: Ralph Abernathy's arrest,
undated
The Center's caption identifies the subject of this
"State Patrol" arrest photograph as Ralph Abernathy. The circumstances are
unknown.
Sub-series 4: The Selma-to-Montgomery March
The Selma-to-Montgomery March,
1963-1974 (bulk 1965 and 1974)
0.9 cubic feet plus 6 items
Sub-series 4 consists principally of newspaper clippings of
1963-1965 (the bulk from 1965), photographs taken in both Selma and Montgomery
from March 6 to March 17, 1965, and surveillance audiotapes of the triumphant
rally held on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery at the
conclusion of the march on March 25, 1965. Appendix I.4A, a listing of
contents, provides an overview of local, regional, national, and international
news clippings collected by the Subversive Unit, in the order in which these
clippings were filmed. The clippings concentrate on, but are not restricted to,
events in Selma and Montgomery in 1965.
A substantial number of photographs of this event have been
published in conventional sources and on the Internet. Dramatic documentary
footage may be seen in part 6 of the film
Eyes on the Prize. Recordings and transcriptions of
Martin Luther King's famous speech of March 25, 1965, are readily available.
Nonetheless, the 369 vivid black-and-white photos in the Rabin collection
provide numerous unique images of the historic efforts to initiate the
Selma-to-Montgomery March.
Perhaps of still greater significance, the audiotapes in the
Rabin collection preserve the last two hours of the event on the Capitol steps,
with Ralph Abernathy serving as master of ceremonies. There are speeches by the
following individuals: Reverend T.Y. Rogers from Tuscaloosa; the Birmingham
civil rights leader, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth; Reverend James Bevel; Ralph
Bunche, Undersecretary to the United Nations; James Forman of SNCC; Amelia
Boynton, from Selma; Jim (Hicks? or Dix?), a freedom rider; John Lewis, the
leader of SNCC; Whitney Young, director of the National Urban League; Don
Slayman, from the civil rights department of the AFL-CIO; Rosa Parks; Martin
Luther King, Jr.; and Hosea Williams. The Subversive Unit audiotapes capture
this event in jumbled order. These reel-to-reel surveillance tapes have been
transferred to compact disc (CD) in three forms: as literal copies; as literal
copies, but with the introduction of various methods of digital noise
reduction; and in an "artificial," edited reconstruction of the event in its
original sequence, spanning two CDs. For details, see Appendix A, and Appendix
I.4B for a transcription of the speeches. This transcription is incomplete,
owing to the poor audio quality in some segments, particularly during
substantial portions of Shuttlesworth's speech, which is badly distorted, and
portions of Park's speech, in which her soft-spoken voice is difficult to
hear.
In addition to materials obtained from the Department of Public
Safety, the Selma-to-Montgomery March sub-series includes a contemporary issue
of
Life magazine issue with a cover article on the
event, as well as retrospective color slides of the march route. Apart from the
collection proper, the control folder for the Rabin Collection has a February
2000 issue of
National Geographic containing a retrospective
article on the march.
All of the Selma and Montgomery photographs bear, on the
reverse, the stamp of the Center for the Study of Civil Liberties and Civil
Rights, with the subject given as "Selma March" and the photographer as "State
Patrol."
Box 2
Folder 07
Subversive Unit news clippings: Printout of the
itemized list of contents of microfilm reel 17 (Appendix I.4A),
1963-1965 (bulk 1965)
Box 2
Folder 08
Subversive Unit news clippings: Printouts from the
microfilm, as itemized in Folder 07 (Items 001-084),
1963-1965 (bulk 1965)
Box 2
Folder 09
Subversive Unit news clippings: Printouts from the
microfilm, as itemized in Folder 07 (Items 085-149),
1964-1965 (bulk 1965)
Box 2
Subversive Unit news clippings: Printouts from the
microfilm, as itemized in Folder 07 (Items 150-218),
1963-1965 (bulk 1965)
Box 7
Reel 17
Subversive Unit news clippings: Microfilm 16mm
1963-1965 (bulk 1965)
Box 4
Item 001
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 6
8 x 10 black-and-white print. Photograph of a gathering
in Selma, March 6, 1965.
Box 4
Items 002-017
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 7
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of "Bloody
Sunday" in Selma, March 7, 1965. There are two copies each of items 6 and
11-14, three copies each of items 7-9 and 15-16, and four copies of item 10
(actually five copies--item 17 is the same image as item 10).
Box 4
Items 018-134
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 9
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Selma, March 9, 1965. There are two copies each of items 72, 75,103, 104, 131,
133, and 134.
Box 5
Item 259
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 9 or 10
8 x 10 black-and-white print. Photograph of a nighttime
protest in Selma, March 9 or 10, 1965. There are two copies of this item, one
labeled "Montgomery," "3/10/65 and the other labeled "Selma," with its date
corrected from "3/10/65" to "3/9/65." The building captured in the background
appears in numerous other Selma photographs in the Rabin Collection. The
specific image seems to belong with Selma photographs from the night of March
9, compare box 4, items 115-118, but it may date from the post-midnight early
hours of March 10, 1965.
Box 5
Items 135-139, 146, 147, 152-160, 162, 163, 166, 180,
181, 183-190, 193-214, 216-227, 232, 236-238, 240-243, 245-247, 250-258, 262-265
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 10
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Montgomery, March 10, 1965. There are two copies each of items 214, 216, 218,
219, 221-223, 225, 227, 238, 241, 242, 256-258, 262, and 265, three copies each
of items 240 and 263, five copies of item 243, and six copies of item 237.
Box 5
Items 140-145, 148-151, 161, 164, 165, 167-179, 182, 191,
192, 215, 228-231, 233-235, 239, 244, 248, 249, 260, 261, 266
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 10
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Selma, March 10, 1965. Items 140 and 266, with marchers on Selma's Edmund
Pettis Bridge, are both mislabeled "Montgomery" on the reverse. There are two
copies each of items 215, 228, 229, 231, 235, 239, 260, and 261.
Box 6
Items 267-279
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 11
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Montgomery, March 11, 1965. There are two copies each of items 268 and 269.
Box 6
Items 280-286
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 13
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Selma, March 13, 1965.
Box 6
Items 287-289
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 14
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Selma, March 14, 1965.
Box 6
Items 290-310
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 15
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Selma, March 15, 1965.
Box 6
Items 311-323, 327-347
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 16
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Montgomery, March 16, 1965. There are two copies each of items 313 and 346.
Box 6
Items 324-326
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 16
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Selma, March 16, 1965.
Box 6
Items 348-359
Photographs of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 17
8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Photographs of events in
Montgomery, March 17, 1965. There are two copies of item 348.
Box 2
Folder 11
Photocopies of the 8 x 10 prints of events preceding
the Selma March,
1965 March 6-10
Items 001-179 as detailed directly above, March 6-10,
1965. The photocopies are double-sided, i.e., inclusive of captions on the
reverse.
Box 2
Folder 12
Photocopies of the 8 x 10 prints of events preceding
the Selma March,
1965 March 10-17
Items 180-359 as detailed directly above, March 10-17,
1965. The photocopies are double-sided, i.e., inclusive of captions on reverse.
Box 3
Negatives newly made from the 8 x 10 prints, for
exhibit purposes, of events preceding the Selma March,
1965 March 6-17
The negatives comprise, from Box 4, items 002, 003,
005, 020, 022, 023, 031, 034, 037, 043, 045, 050, 053, 059, 069, 077, 081, 089,
093, 098, 102, 105, 108, 118, 120, 123, 126, and 128; from Box 5, items 138,
143, 147, 150, 153, 159, 165, 176, 180, 183, 185, 192, 193, 195, 197, 203, 209,
214, 245, and 254; and from Box 6, items 270, 275, 277, 282, 283, 290, 295,
299, 300, 304, 307, 314, 315, 318, 325, 326, 331, 342-345, 348, 349, 351, 354,
356, and 359.
Box 7
Pictorial essay on the events preceding the Selma
March,
1965 March 19
Issue of
Life magazine, including the cover story "Selma:
Beatings Start the Savage Season."
Box 2
Folder 13
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Transcript of compact discs
05/06/07/08E parts 1 and 2, the final two hours of the event (Appendix I.4B),
1965 March 25
Box 7
Compact disc 05/06/07/08E part 1
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (final edited
copy),
1965 March 25
The penultimate hour, with speeches by an unidentified
speaker, Ralph Abernathy, T. Y. Rogers, Fred Shuttlesworth, James Bevel, Ralph
Bunche, James Forman, Amelia Boynton, Jim (Hicks? or Dix?), John Lewis, Whitney
Young, and Don Slayman. Duration: 1:01:25
Box 7
Compact disc 05/06/07/08E part 2
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (final edited
copy),
1965 March 25
The final hour, with speeches by Ralph Abernathy, Rosa
Parks, Martin Luther King, Hosea Williams, and Edmond Clark, and the mass
singing of "We Shall Overcome." Duration: 55:28
Box 7
Compact disc 05LAC
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (transitional
copy),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Ralph Abernathy, Jim (Hicks? or Dix?), John
Lewis, Whitney Young, Don Slayman, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King.
Intelligible, unedited copy of 5-inch audiotape 05, left channel, side
A.
Box 7
Compact disc 05LAT
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (transitional
copy),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Ralph Abernathy, Jim (Hicks? or Dix?), John
Lewis, Whitney Young, Don Slayman, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King.
Unintelligible, double-speed copy of 5-inch audiotape 05, left channel, side
A.
Tape
7-inch reel-to-reel audiotape 05
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (transitional
copy),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Ralph Abernathy, Jim (Hicks? or Dix?), John
Lewis, Whitney Young, Don Slayman, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King. Rabin's
copy of 5-inch audiotape 05
Tape
5-inch reel-to-reel audiotape 05
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (original source),
1965 March 25
Box 7
Compact disc 0601LAC
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (final edited
copy),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea
Williams, and Edmond Clark on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol,
Montgomery, and the mass singing of "We Shall Overcome." Intelligible, unedited
copy of 5-inch audiotape 06, program 01, the left channel, side A.
Box 7
Compact disc 0601LAT
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (final edited
copy),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea
Williams, and Edmond Clark on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol,
Montgomery, and the mass singing of "We Shall Overcome." Unintelligible,
double-speed copy of 5-inch audiotape 06, program 01, the left channel, side
A.
Tape
7-inch reel-to-reel audiotape 06
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (transitional
copy),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea
Williams, and Edmond Clark on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol,
Montgomery, and the mass singing of "We Shall Overcome." Rabin's copy of 5-inch
audiotape 06.
Tape
5-inch reel-to-reel audiotape 06
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (original source),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea
Williams, and Edmond Clark on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol,
Montgomery, and the mass singing of "We Shall Overcome."
Box 7
Compact disc 07LA
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (final edited
copy),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Martin Luther King, an unidentified
speaker, Ralph Abernathy, T. Y. Rogers, Fred Shuttlesworth, James Bevel, Ralph
Bunche, James Forman, Amelia Boynton, Jim (Hicks? or Dix?), John Lewis, and
Whitney Young. Intelligible, unedited copy of 5-inch audiotape 07, the left
channel, side A.
Box 7
Compact disc 07LB
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (final edited
copy),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Martin Luther King, an unidentified
speaker, Ralph Abernathy, T. Y. Rogers, Fred Shuttlesworth, James Bevel, Ralph
Bunche, James Forman, Amelia Boynton, Jim (Hicks? or Dix?), John Lewis, and
Whitney Young. Intelligible, unedited copy of 5-inch audiotape 07, the left
channel, side B.
Tape
5-inch reel-to-reel audiotape 07
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (original source),
1965 March 25
Speeches by Martin Luther King, an unidentified
speaker, Ralph Abernathy, T. Y. Rogers, Fred Shuttlesworth, James Bevel, Ralph
Bunche, James Forman, Amelia Boynton, Jim (Hicks? or Dix?), John Lewis, and
Whitney Young.
Box 7
Compact disc 08LA
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (transitional
copy),
1965 March 25
Interrupted segments of speeches by Whitney Young,
Ralph Abernathy, Don Slayman, Hosea Williams, and Edmond Clark, the mass
singing of "We Shall Overcome" (all deriving from the left channel) and further
interrupted segments of speeches by an unidentified speaker, John Lewis,
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Whitney Young, and Don Slayman (from the right
channel). Intelligible, unedited copy of 5-inch audiotape 08, the left channel,
side A.
Box 7
Compact disc 08RAC
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (transitional
copy),
1965 March 25
Interrupted segments of speeches by Whitney Young,
Ralph Abernathy, Don Slayman, Hosea Williams, and Edmond Clark, the mass
singing of "We Shall Overcome" (all deriving from the left channel) and further
interrupted segments of speeches by an unidentified speaker, John Lewis,
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Whitney Young, and Don Slayman (from the right
channel). Intelligible, unedited copy of tape 08, the right channel, side
A.
Box 7
Compact disc 08RAF
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (transitional
copy),
1965 March 25
Interrupted segments of speeches by Whitney Young,
Ralph Abernathy, Don Slayman, Hosea Williams, and Edmond Clark, the mass
singing of "We Shall Overcome" (all deriving from the left channel) and further
interrupted segments of speeches by an unidentified speaker, John Lewis,
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Whitney Young, and Don Slayman (from the right
channel). Unintelligible copy, playing in reverse, of 5-inch audiotape 08, the
right channel, side A.
Tape
5-inch reel-to-reel audiotape 08
Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at
the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March: Recordings (original source),
1965 March 25
Interrupted segments of speeches by Whitney Young,
Ralph Abernathy, Don Slayman, Hosea Williams, and Edmond Clark, the mass
singing of "We Shall Overcome" (all deriving from the left channel) and further
interrupted segments of speeches by an unidentified speaker, John Lewis,
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Whitney Young, and Don Slayman (from the right
channel).
Box 3
Folder 06
Retrospective Selma March tours,
1974 August
35mm color slides. 41 retrospective slides of
Selma-area portions of the march route, including 1 shot of the entrance to
Craig Air Force Base, near Selma, 22 shots of the approach to the Edmond Pettis
Bridge from both directions, and 10 shots of the exterior of Brown Chapel AME
Church.
Box 3
Folder 07
Retrospective Selma March tours,
1974 November
35mm color slides. 56 retrospective slides of
Montgomery-area portions of the march route. The majority of images are
unidentified and the sequence is uncertain, but signs are visible for Dannelly
Field Municipal Airport, near Montgomery, and for the intersection of highways
80 and 31, where the marchers turned toward Montgomery.
Sub-series 6: The Poor People's Campaign
The Poor People's Campaign,
1968
0.1 cubic feet plus 3 items
Sub-series 6 consists of further unique and historic police
surveillance tapes made by the Subversive Unit in 1968 at an early stage of the
Poor People's Campaign. At a mass meeting in Bessemer, Alabama, King,
Abernathy, Williams, and an unidentified fourth speaker discuss the campaign in
relation to African-American history and current events. On the streets of
Birmingham, an unidentified speaker links a Vietnam War protest to civil rights
issues. These reel-to-reel tapes have been transferred to CD along the lines
described in Sub-series 5. For details, see Appendix A. For transcriptions, see
Appendix I.6A and Appendix I.6B.
Box 2
Folder 15
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Transcript of audiotape 09 (Appendix I.6A),
probably 1968 March 20
Owing to the poor quality of the recording, there is no
transcript for the last portion of audiotape 09 and its continuation on
audiotape 10, program 01.
Box 7
Compact disc 09AE
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Recordings (final edited copies),
probably 1968 March 20
Audiotape 09, the right channel, side A, Martin Luther
King and Ralph Abernathy. Duration: 31:00
Box 7
Compact disc 09BE
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Recordings (final edited copies),
probably 1968 March 20
Audiotape 09, the right channel, side B, Ralph
Abernathy and Hosea Williams. Duration 31:09
Box 7
Compact disc 1001AE
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Recordings (final edited copies),
probably 1968 March 20
Audiotape 10, the right channel, program 1, side A,
Hosea Williams and unidentified others. 23:57
Box 7
Compact disc 09RA
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Recordings (transitional copy),
probably 1968 March 20
Intelligible, unedited copy of audiotape 09, the right
channel, side A, Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy.
Box 7
Compact disc 09RB
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Recordings (transitional copy),
probably 1968 March 20
Intelligible, unedited copy of audiotape 09, the right
channel, side B, Ralph Abernathy and Hosea Williams.
Box 7
Compact disc 1001RA
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Recordings (transitional copy),
probably 1968 March 20
Intelligible, unedited copy of audiotape 10, the right
channel, program 01, side A, Hosea Williams and unidentified others.
Tape
Tape 9
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Recordings (original source),
probably 1968 March 20
5-inch reel-to-reel.
Tape
Tape 10
Speeches given by Martin Luther King, Ralph
Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and unidentified others in Bessemer, Alabama:
Recordings (original source),
probably 1968 March 20
5-inch reel-to-reel.
Box 2
Folder 16
Civil rights and anti-war speech by an unidentified
African American man in Birmingham, Alabama: Transcript of audiotape 10,
program 2 (Appendix I.6B),
probably 1968 March
Box 7
Compact disc 1002 AE 140%
Civil rights and anti-war speech by an unidentified
African American man in Birmingham, Alabama: Recordings (final edited copy),
probably 1968 March
Audiotape 10, program 2, side A, playing at 140% of the
transfer-copy speed. Duration: 11:46
Box 7
Compact disc 1002 AE 145%
Civil rights and anti-war speech by an unidentified
African American man in Birmingham, Alabama: Recordings (final edited copy),
probably 1968 March
Audiotape 10, program 2, side A, playing at 145% of the
transfer-copy speed. Duration 12:13
Box 7
Compact disc 1002 140%
Civil rights and anti-war speech by an unidentified
African American man in Birmingham, Alabama: Recordings (transitional copy),
probably 1968 March
Intelligible, unedited copy of audiotape 10, program 2,
side A, playing at 140% of the transfer-copy speed.
Box 7
Compact disc 1002 145%
Civil rights and anti-war speech by an unidentified
African American man in Birmingham, Alabama: Recordings (transitional copy),
probably 1968 March
Intelligible, unedited copy of audiotape 10, program 2,
side A, playing at 145% of the transfer-copy speed.
Box 7
Compact disc 1002RAT
Civil rights and anti-war speech by an unidentified
African American man in Birmingham, Alabama: Recordings (transitional copy),
probably 1968 March
Unintelligible transfer copy of audiotape 10, program
2, the right channel, side A.
Tape
Tape 10
Civil rights and anti-war speech by an unidentified
African American man in Birmingham, Alabama: Recordings (original source),
probably 1968 March
5-inch reel-to-reel.
Box 7
Compact disc 11AE
Speech on black power and unity by an unidentified
African American man, the location and date unknown; Recordings (final edited
copy),
undated
(Owing to the poor quality of the recording, there is
no transcript of audiotape 11); Intelligible, unedited copy of audiotape 11,
the right channel, side A.
Tape
Tape 11
Speech on black power and unity by an unidentified
African American man, the location and date unknown; Recordings (original
source),
undated
5-inch reel-to-reel.
