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    Interview Excerpt of Ms. Gloria Battle

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    Gloria G. Battle was a graduate of Alabama State College (now Alabama State University).  Several course options were available to students, in the summer, for continued pursuit of their teaching certificates. Three sessions were available to students, 20 days, 40 days and 60 days. Her grandmother taught 51 years with a certificate.  She taught adults reading and writing. The Belle Aire community was across the street on Harris Street (now Hall Street). The Nat King Cole house was on Thurman Street

    Interview Excerpt of Mr. Robert Edgar James

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    Robert Edgar James was born in Gees Bend, AL which is in Dallas County. He was born in Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma, AL. At that time Selma was a city where weapons were built. It was also the county seat of Dallas County. Mr. James stated that Selma was also a productive city

    Interview Excerpt of Dr. Clifford Martin

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    Interview with Dr. Clifford Marti

    Interview Excerpt of Mr. Tommy Woolfork, Sr.

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    (1947- ) airport administrator. The seventh of twelve children born to John Henry Woolfolk, a share-cropper and Ruby Mae Carr Woolfolk, a housewife. Tommy, a native of unincorporated Matthews (Montgomery County), Alabama walked miles to the local one-room, one-teacher elementary school for African Americans. By fourth grade, he worked on the McGowan Dairy Farm. Woolfolk attended Georgia Washington High School, earning a High School Diploma in 1965. Then, he matriculated to what became Alabama State University and thrived. Two years later, on a chance trip to California, he quickly landed a job at Continental Airlines that eventually propelled him to become manager of Terminal 2 at the Los Angeles Airport (LAX). In 1971, he married Camille Cephus, whose mother was a daughter of the well-known M.J. Moore family, Montgomery, Alabama. They had two children, Tommy Jr., and Chenille. Woolfolk Sr. is a member of Hollman United Methodist Church in the Los Angeles area

    Interview Excerpt of Ms. Annie B. Lawson Lovett

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    Annie B. Lawson Lovett, a teacher at Tyler Jr. High School in Selma, AL, was the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. John Collins Lawson. Lawson was born in Lowndes County and attended local schools, graduating from Central High School (Lowndes County Training School). She earned a Bachelor’s degree from Alabama State College. Mrs. Lovett taught school at Tyler Jr. High School in Selma, AL as well as Edison Elementary school as an ESL (English as Second Language) instructor and later moved to Fullerton Jr. College in California. Her teaching there included ethnic studies to policemen. She married Ret. Col. John Lovett

    Interview Excerpt of Ms. Josephine McCall

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    Josephine Bolling McCall, an educator, was born in Lowndes County, Alabama. She attended G. W. Carver High School in Montgomery, Alabama State University and Auburn University. She is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (Retired), and was the first black president of the Alabama Association of School Psychologists and first person ever elected to serve two presidential terms. She was the first black to serve as Alabama’s delegate to the National Association of School Psychologists. She retired as Director of Special Education from the Phenix City Public Schools. After retirement, she served as the Director of the Alabama League for the Advancement of Education working with six historical black colleges to provide tutorial and other educational services to public school children. She wrote the book, "The Penalty for Success: My Father Was Lynched in Lowndes County, Alabama.

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