Reminiscences of Virginia Foster Durr, 1974

Biographical Note

Civil rights activist; interviewee, b.1903, married Clifford Durr

Scope and Contents

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

• African Americans--Segregation.
• Barnard, William D., interviewer.
• Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Civil rights workers.
• Durr, Virginia Foster--Interviews.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Race relations.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976