Web site with access to the Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists which includes copies of records of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and many hours of oral history of the renowned civil liberties lawyer Clifford Durr. It also provides access to an undated filmed interview of Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) in Montgomery; 450 black-and-white photographs created by the Subversive Unit of the Investigative and Identification Division of the Alabama Department of Public Safety in the course of sit-ins, demonstrations, and marches in several Alabama cities during the early to mid-1960s; and surveillance tapes preserving speeches made variously at an anniversary meeting of the MIA in 1963, at the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March in 1965, and in Bessemer and Birmingham, Alabama, in the course of the Poor People's Campaign of 1968. The site highlights the work of John Beecher, Stokely Carmichael, Clifford and Virignia Durr, Charles Gomillion, Lester Hankerson, Myles Horton, and E. D. Nixon.

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Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists, 1941-2004 (bulk 1956-1974), Accession 2002-0116H, Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University.

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