Elwood, William A. William A. Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project collection [manuscript], 1984-1989.
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William A. Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project collection [manuscript], 1984-1989.
The collection consists of 284 videotapes shot for the Civil Rights Lawyers Project. The tapes were used in the award winning documentary film "The Road to Brown : the untold story of 'the man who killed Jim Crow', " about the life of Charles Hamilton Houston's crusade for civil rights and the events that led to "Brown vs. the Board of Education," and the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared the 'separate but equal' doctrine illegal. Interviewees include H. Brandt Ayers, Jack Bass, Gardner L. Bishop, Delores R. Boyd, Frances Brand, Wiley Branton, Alvin J. Bronstein, Drewary Brown, Florence Bryant, Robert L. Carter, Julius L. Chambers, William T. Coleman, Earl B. Dickerson, Charles Todd Duncan, William Evans, and George R. Ferguson. Also John Hope Franklin, Anne Hobson Freeman, Charles G. Gomillion, Fred Gray, Calvin C. Green, Jack Greenberg, William C. Harbaugh, C. Alex Harvin, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, A.E.Dick Howard, Beulah Crosby Johnson, Leone Lane, John Lewis, Edward Mazique, Genna Rae McNeil, Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Charles Morgan, Jr., E. Frederic Morrow, and Constance Baker Motley. Also James M. Nabrit, Robert J. Norrell, John Norton, Matthew J. Perry, Joseph Rauh, Louis T. Redding, Herbert O. Reid, Walter L. Ridley, Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Collins J. Seitz, Arthur Shores, Modjeska Simkins, J. Clay Smith, Juanita Kidd Stout, Alice Jackson Houston Stuart, Laurin A. Thompson, Otto L. Tucker, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, Donald Watkins, Joseph C. Watson, F. Palmer Weber, Eugene Williams, and Dr. Stephen Wright.
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284 items.
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