The 2nd Annual Catholic Committee of the South Convention held in Birmingham, Alabama on April 22, 1941. The audio features speakers introducing what the convention is for and the theme of this particular year's convention which was "The Church and the Negro".
The honorable Charles D Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Bess B. Walcott, retired curator of the Carver Unit of the Tuskegee Cultural Center, discuss the new cultural center at Cape Mount.
Coot Grant and "Kid" Wesley Wilson were a wife and husband duet group that were popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s performing blues and jazz music. The couple also performed in vaudeville, musical comedies, revues, and traveling shows.
The Tuskegee Institute Singers grew out of the Tuskegee Institute Chapel Choir, first organized by Booker T. Washington. The Singers were reorganized in 1909 and toured performing spirituals, recording multiple sessions for Victor Records in 1915-1916 and 1926-1927.
The Tuskegee Institute Singers grew out of the Tuskegee Institute Chapel Choir, first organized by Booker T. Washington. The Singers were reorganized in 1909 and toured performing spirituals, recording multiple sessions for Victor Records in 1915-1916 and 1926-1927.
Coot Grant and "Kid" Wesley Wilson were a wife and husband duet group that were popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s performing blues and jazz music. The couple also performed in vaudeville, musical comedies, revues, and traveling shows.
The Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) calling a mass meeting in response to Senate Bill 291, included a message from K. L. Buford, a local minister and activist in Tuskegee, and speeches of support by Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The 5th Anniversary of the Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) guest speaker was Mrs. Amelia M. Tucker from Kentucky legislature and her topic foused on racism.
This Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) meeting, featuring an appearance by Jackie Robinson, took place on the second anniversary of start of the TCA’s Crusade for Citizenship. The crusade was a voter registration and civil rights campaign that started in 1957 to fight Senate Bill 291.
Muhammad Ali discussed his life since defeating Cleveland Williams in the Astrodome, his conversion to the Nation of Islam, and his decision to change his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali. Ali then discussed his views on the efforts of the major Civil Rights leaders and their movement to seek equality.
Whitney M. Young is the last speaker in a lecture series held by Sperry and Hutchinson and sponsored by the Green Stamp Foundation. The theme of the lecture series was "Toward Civic Democracy in the South", and Mr. Young would be the final speaker discussing the social aspect of the theme.
Coretta Scott King preached on the need for the militancy and simplicity of the earliest Christians who were not caught up in the trappings of form and fashion of worship.
The Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) is celebrating its 6th Anniversity for the Crusade for Citizenship. The message by Mr John Dor, assistant to the assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division, the United States Department of Justice.
Rev. John Lewis, a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; interview between his involvement with SNCC and his election for House of Representatives in 1981.