Name
Durr, Virginia Foster (Interviewee)
Barnard, William D (Interviewer)
Title
Reminiscences of Virginia Foster Durr, 1974
Abstract
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 civ il 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
Collection Name
Individual interviews oral history collection
Subjects
New Deal, 1933-1939; Internal security--United States; Civil rights--United States; African Americans--Segregation; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Race relations; Durr, Virginia Foster; Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971; Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1974
Physical Description
377 pages
Note (Biographical)
Civil rights activist; interviewee, b.1903, married Clifford Durr
Note
Interviewed by William D. Barnard
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record
15182748
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-t3a2-7132
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.