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Mamie Brown Mason Transcript 1 (SMRC).pdf
Interview with Mamie Brown Mason, Civil Rights Movement foot-soldier and co-founder of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir / Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir. Recorded by Burgin Mathews, August 2, 2013, at Mason's home in…

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Born in Texas, St. Elmo Johnson was a classically trained violinist, conductor, choir director, and arranger. By 1927, he was a central figure in Rev. George Wilson Becton’s Gospel Feast Party. Becton, a sensational and flamboyant Harlem evangelist,…

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Mary Alice Clarke Stollenwerck, a member of Birmingham's musical Clarke family, played piano, organ, accordion, and vibraphone; directed music at Birmingham's prestigious Sixteenth Street Baptist Church; and performed for years in Fess Whatley's…

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Mary Alice Clarke program 1.jpg
Funeral program for Mary Alice Clarke Stollenwerck: pianist, organist, accordionist, vibraphonist, choir director, and teacher; Birmingham, Alabama, 1911-1999.

Courtesy Carol Clarke.

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Johnson Family radio broadcast excerpt, Sand Mountain, Alabama, 1953

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https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/69313/archive/files/85815582339b91080b822c7bd7dcd030.mp3
In the first of more than 100 interviews with Burgin Mathews, Frank Adams shares some of his earliest memories. Topics include the influence of his father, Oscar W. Adams, Sr., and of his maternal grandmother, Ella Eaton; his first public…

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https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/69313/archive/files/12476d7bd19bff730d28ba0807075eab.mp3
Interview with Eloise Gaffney & Louisa Bevelle, Civil Rights Movement foot-soldiers and members of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir / Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir. Recorded by Burgin Mathews, August 7, 2013, in…

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Georgia Warren SMRC edit (with noise reduction).mp3
In this interview excerpt, Georgia Warren of Bluff City, Tennessee, recalls her experience as a participant in the historic 1927 Bristol Sessions.The Bristol Sessions have often been called “The Big Bang of Country Music”; Johnny Cash called the…

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