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Mary Mataw Clarke ( 18--? -1968)
Funeral program for Mary Mataw Clarke of Birmingham, Alabama. Clarke was a pianist; music teacher; organist and director of music at Birmingham's prestigious Sixteenth Street Baptist Church; and the matriarch of one of her city's most prominent…
St. Elmo Johnson
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,…
Mary Alice Clarke
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…
Mary Alice Clarke Stollenwerck (1911-1999)
Funeral program for Mary Alice Clarke Stollenwerck: pianist, organist, accordionist, vibraphonist, choir director, and teacher; Birmingham, Alabama, 1911-1999.
Courtesy Carol Clarke.
Courtesy Carol Clarke.
Lily of the Valley
Johnson Family radio broadcast excerpt, Sand Mountain, Alabama, 1953
Frank Adams on his Early Life: Family and First Musical Experiences
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…
Tags: 1930s; 1940s; A. M. E. Zion Church; Alabama; Birmingham Jazz; Birmingham, Alabama; Church; clarinet; Clarinetist; Doc Adams; Fess Whatley; Frank Adams; Industrial High School; jazz; Jefferson County, Alabama; Oscar W. Adams Jr.; Oscar W. Adams Sr.; Parker High School; Sacred Music; Saxophone; Saxophonist
Eloise Gaffney & Louisa Bevelle
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…
Tags: Alabama; Birmingham, Alabama; Bull Connor; Carlton Reese; Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir; Civil Rights Movement; Eloise Ford Gaffney; Eloise Gaffney; Etowah County, Alabama; Fred Shuttlesworth; Freedom Songs; Gadsden, Alabama; Gospel; Jefferson County, Alabama; Louisa Bevelle; Martin Luther King; Protest Music; Ralph Abernathy; Sacred Music; Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Georgia Warren
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…