[Lecture and interview] [sound recording]. 1976.

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[Lecture and interview] [sound recording]. 1976.

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Tape 1: Durr speaks at the "Women in the South" Conference at University of Alabama, 1976. Introduced by Jessica Mitford, Durr discusses the relationship between fascism and the killings of blacks in the South, the impact of warfare, and women activists from Alabama, etc. Other unrelated material follows. Tape 2: Stephanie Siegel interview discussing finishing school and Wellesley College, her family's history and views on race, disenfranchisement activities in the south, working on civil rights issues with her husband, and Southern politics, etc.

2 sound cassettes (172 min.) : analog.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Durr, Virginia Foster

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Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999) was a civil rights activist and a friend of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. She was a relief worker during the Great Depression, worked as a lobbyist and campaign worker for Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in the 1940s, ran as a candidate for governor of Virginia in 1948, and worked as a civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s. From the description of Durr, Virginia Foster, 1903-1999 (U.S. National Archiv...

Wellesley College

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Siegel, Stephanie E.

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Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996

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Anglo-American memoirist, social commentator, journalist and author. From the description of Papers, 1949-1973 (bulk 1961-1973). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122452906 Jessica Mitford, a.k.a. Decca, was a writer and one of the famous Mitford sisters, daughters of the 2nd Baron Redesdale. Her books include two autobiographies: Daughters and rebels and A fine old conflict. Her many investigative works inclu...