doi:10.7916/d8-t3a2-7132Reminiscences of Virginia Foster Durr, 1974Durr, Virginia Fosteroral historiestextNew Deal, 1933-1939Internal security--United StatesCivil rights--United StatesAfrican Americans--SegregationUnited States Politics and government 1933-1945United States Race relationsDurr, Virginia FosterBlack, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971Reconstruction Finance CorporationFamily 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