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Xenopus laevis as a Model Organism for Studying the Developmental Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes.
No full textPerceptions of marginally involved parents of academically low performing students in rural schools for increasing their involvement in their children's education
No full textInterview Excerpt of Ms. Claudette Colvin
No full textIn 1955, Claudette Colvin was a student attending Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama. As a fifteen-year-old Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a White woman on March 2, 1955. Over nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Colvin was arrested, handcuffed, escorted off the bus and then jailed. Colvin then agreed to became one of the four plaintiffs in the Browder v. Gayle case that ended segregation on Montgomery buses. The Claudette Colvin interview was recorded at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama on April 25, 2018
Interviews Excerpt for a New York Times story on the Montgomery Bus Boycott Indictment Records, 2018
No full textIn 2018, when Montgomery Circuit Court Clerk Tiffany McCord loaned Montgomery Bus Boycott Indictment records to the Archives at the Levi Watkins Learning Center on the campus of ASU, representatives of the New York Times, including reporter Alan Blinder and photographer Audra Melton conducted interviews and took photographs. The people interviewed include, attorney Fred Gray, ASU President Quinton Ross, Montgomery Circuit Court Clerk Tiffany McCord, Dean of the Library Janice Franklin, University Archivist Howard Robinson, and Public Relations Officer Kenneth Mullinax
Interview Excerpt of Ms. Althea T. Thomas
No full text(1936- ) educator, born in Montgomery, Alabama the youngest to the union of H.O. Thompson and Faustine Hilliard Thompson. Althea began playing the organ and piano for churches as a pre-teen and has continued to do so for more than sixty years. Althea is the only organist ever hired by Martin Luther King, Jr., during his historic time as Pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree, and her Master’s Degrees from Alabama State University in both Music and Art. She taught at Alabama State University and in the Montgomery Public School System for many years and has owned and operated a music studio, House of the Arts and Thompson Legacy Studio, for more than forty years which teaches Art and Music to children and adults
Interview Excerpt of Mr. Donald M. Crawford, Sr.
No full text(1948-2018) Donald Mitchell Crawford, Sr. (“DC”), musician, author, and educator, was born on May 24, 1948, and was a lifelong resident of Birmingham, AL. His father and mother owned and operated “C & S Charter Tours Bus Company,” the first black-owned bus company in the state of Alabama. Crawford was a 1966 graduate of Western Olin High School in Birmingham, AL. Crawford was an outstanding drum major, playing first chair alto saxophone under the tutelage of the late Amos F. Gordon, Sr. After high school, he received a music scholarship to Alabama State University (ASU) where he earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Music Education and was later inducted into the “School of Music Hall of Fame” at ASU. He was the youngest ever inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and performed with the 291 st and 283rd Army Band in Fort Bennett, GA. DC was Band Director at Jackson Olin High School and taught in the Birmingham School System for over thirty-five years. His love for music and performing lead him after his retirement to serve as Band Director for Miles College.
Crawford is the author of “The Wheels of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement.” This book chronicles the lives of his late father and mother, Worcy and Christine Pride Crawford, and the role he and the company played in the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
Interview Excerpt of Dr. Floyd Coleman
No full textFloyd W. Coleman, the youngest child of Pharris and Rhoda Coleman, was born January 13th, 1939 in the community of Sawyerville, Alabama. He was raised here with his five siblings (4 brothers and 1 sister) in Hale County. He graduated from Hale County Training School in Greensboro, AL. At Alabama State College (now Alabama State University) he met his future wife of 58 years, Yvonne Boyd. His art has been shown in over 120 exhibitions internationally and 21 solo exhibitions, including work that hangs in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Interview Excerpt of Ms. Ruth Jones
No full textRuth Helen Jones, teacher and civil right activist, was born in Meridian, Mississippi to Robert and Maggie Hall Jones. She graduated from St. Joseph High School in Meridian in 1958. She attended Alabama State College after graduation and was one of the students expelled for participating in the sit-ins of the 60s. Later, she graduated from Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee. During her student years at Lemoyne-Owen, she participated in various civil rights activities and was privileged to meet well-known civil rights leader James Meredith on the campus. Because of her work with women’s history organizations, she was able to get the Governor of Mississippi to declare a Women’s History Month in the state