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The Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir
In 1959, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir was formed to provide the music that would fuel the mass meetings and marches of Birmingham's Civil Rights Movement. The Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir -- named in honor of that…
Mamie Brown Mason
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…
Tags: 1960s; 1963; Birmingham, Alabama; Bull Connor; Carlton Reese; Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir; Civil Rights Movement; Dallas County, Alabama; Freedom Songs; Gospel; Jefferson County, Alabama; Mamie Brown; Mamie Brown Mason; Orrville, Alabama; Protest Music; Sacred Music; Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
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