| Creator: | Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory |
| Title: | Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund |
| Collection No.: | ohrc095 |
| Dates: | 1982-1983 |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 5 Interviews (Audio files, transcripts, and collateral materials ) |
| Abstract: | This project features interviews with civil rights activists. They discuss their involvement in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund. Some of the main topics include segregation, poverty, legislation, and poll taxes. |
| Location: | Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030A. Contact ohrc@indiana.edu for more information. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office. |
| Language: | Materials are in English |
| Repository: | Center for Documentary Research and Practice Franklin Hall 0030B 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Business Number: 812-855-2856 ohrc@indiana.edu URL: https://cdrp.mediaschool.indiana.edu/ |
This collection contains five interviews conducted over one year. The interviews range from fifty-five to ninety minutes. All interviews consist of audio tapes and typed transcripts.
The archive of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University is open to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of the interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Audio files may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for that interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the audio interview. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as researchers fully cite the data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's name, and page(s).
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape number and side if no transcript; if digital audio and no transcript, cite time when quote occurs].
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the history of twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
No(s): 83-053
Physical Description: 35 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 90 minutes
Scope and Content Note: Anne Braden, born September 28, 1924, discusses her work with the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the Southern Conference Education Fund. She describes the disenfranchisement of the depression era South and the need for worker, economic and civil rights for Black Americans. She also talks about the structure of the SCEF and its growth into a powerful organization.
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Access Status: Open
No(s): 83-001
Physical Description: 31 pages; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 1 hour 12 minutes
Scope and Content Note: Virginia Foster Durr, born August 6, 1903, describes her involvement in the civil rights movement in the South beginning in the 1930s. She discusses her involvement with the Red Cross, the Democratic National Committee, and the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax. She explains conditions for the poor and African-American communities of the South during the Great Depression and World War II. She discusses the poll tax, segregation, grandfather provisions, and rickets.
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Access Status: Open
No(s): 83-039
Physical Description: 30 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 73 minutes; transcript incomplete
Scope and Content Note: Amelia R. B. Robinson was born August 18, 1911 in Savannah, Georgia. She discusses her education and her activism. She was an active civil rights leader in Selma, Alabama. She helped Black men and women register to vote and learn how to become financially stable. She worked to help sharecroppers buy their own land.
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Access Status: Open
No(s): 83-035
Physical Description: 23 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 55 minutes; brief sketch on interviewee
Scope and Content Note: Fred Shuttlesworth discusses his membership in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. He also describes the harassment he endured while he was an active member of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Access Status: Open
No(s): 83-054
Physical Description: 21 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 75 minutes
Scope and Content Note: Frederick Palmer Weber, born March 13, 1914, discusses his education at the University of Virginia and his involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. He includes topics such as the poll tax, segregation, the NAACP, and Communism.
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Access Status: Open