Archives Online at Indiana University

View options:

Search within this document:

 

Contents:

Want to learn more?

  • Do you have a question about this collection?
  • Would you like to view the original items in this collection?
  • Are you seeking permission to publish or reproduce items in this collection?

Please contact the holding repository: Center for Documentary Research and Practice, IU Bloomington

Email: ohrc@indiana.edu

Bookmark and Share

Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund, 1982-1983

A Guide to the Collection of Oral History Interviews at Indiana University Bloomington

Finding aid prepared by the staff of the Center for the Study of History and Memory with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access, 2000-2002

Overview of the Collection

Repository
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Indiana University
Franklin Hall 0030B
601 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812/855-2856
Fax: 812/855-0002
E-mail: ohrc@indiana.edu
https://cdrp.mediaschool.indiana.edu

Creator
Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory

Title
Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund, 1982-1983

Project No.
ohrc095

Interviews
5 interviews. Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials.

Physical Location
Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030B. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. Contact archives@indiana.edu for more information. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office.

Language
Materials are in English

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.

Scope and Content Note

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.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
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.
Usage Restrictions
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).
Preferred Citation
[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].

Interview List

Interviewee
Braden, Anne October 10, 1983 

Call Number
83-053

Physical Description

35 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 90 minutes

Interviewer
Reed, Linda

Access Status

Open

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.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Congress of Industrial Organizations
    • House Un-American Activities Committee
    • Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
    • Occupation Names
    • civil rights activist
    • Personal Names
    • Dombrowski, James A.
    • Foreman, Clark
    • Gelders, Joseph
    • Horton, Myles
    • Maund, Alfred
    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
    • Wallace, Henry A.
    • Place Names
    • Birmingham, Alabama
    • Louisville, Kentucky
    • Subjects
    • civil rights
    • economic rights
    • health care discrimination
    • integrated unions
    • racial segregation
    • Southern Patriot
    • voting rights
Interviewee
Durr, Virginia Foster December 29, 1982 

Call Number
83-001

Physical Description

31 pages; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 1 hour 12 minutes

Interviewer
Reed, Linda

Access Status

Open

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.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • American Red Cross
    • Congress of Industrial Organizations
    • Jewish Defense League
    • National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax
    • Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee
    • Personal Names
    • Bethune, Mary McLeod
    • Charlton, Louise O.
    • Connor, Theophilus Eugene "Bull"
    • Dombrowski, James A.
    • Farley, Jim
    • Gelders, Joseph
    • Lamar, Rachel
    • Lewis, John L.
    • Mason, Lucy Randolph
    • Morgan, Roberta
    • Roosevelt, Eleanor
    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
    • Smith, Ed "Cotton"
    • Place Names
    • Birmingham, Alabama
    • Subjects
    • Fair Employment Practices Bill
    • grandfather clauses
    • Great Depression
    • McCarthyism
    • New Deal
    • poll tax
    • racial segregation
    • rickets
    • Southern economic conditions
    • World War II
Interviewee
Robinson, Amelia R. B. July 26, 1983 

Call Number
83-039

Physical Description

30 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 73 minutes; transcript incomplete

Interviewer
Reed, Linda

Access Status

Open

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.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Bethune-Cookman Institute
    • Dallas County Community Center
    • National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax
    • Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    • Personal Names
    • Bethune, Mary McLeod
    • Durr, Virginia F.
    • Place Names
    • Selma, Alabama
    • Subjects
    • Bridge Across Jordan
    • civil rights
    • sharecropping
    • voting rights
Interviewee
Shuttlesworth, Fred July 2, 1983 

Call Number
83-035

Physical Description

23 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 55 minutes; brief sketch on interviewee

Interviewer
Reed, Linda

Access Status

Open

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.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
    • Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    • Personal Names
    • Abernathy, Ralph D.
    • Braden, Anne
    • Dombrowski, James A.
    • Durr, Virginia F.
    • King, Martin Luther, Jr.
    • Williams, Aubrey
    • Place Names
    • Birmingham, Alabama
    • Subjects
    • Atlantic Constitution
    • civil liberties
    • civil rights demonstrations
    • Civil Rights Movement
    • racial integration
    • racial violence
Interviewee
Weber, Frederick Palmer November 13, 1983 

Call Number
83-054

Physical Description

21 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 75 minutes

Interviewer
Reed, Linda

Access Status

Open

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.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Congress of Industrial Organizations
    • NAACP
    • United States Farm Security Administration
    • University of Virginia
    • Occupation Names
    • economist
    • Personal Names
    • Baldwin, Calvin Benham
    • Bender, George
    • Dombrowski, James A.
    • Durr, Clifford J.
    • Durr, Virginia F.
    • Foreman, Clark
    • Subjects
    • Communism
    • constitutional test cases
    • New Deal
    • no-discrimination clause
    • poll tax
    • racial discrimination
    • racial equality
    • racial segregation
    • Red Scare
Accessibility Help