http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/962 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:48:04 GMT 2017-02-28T09:48:04Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/964 Tuskegee Civc Association Meeting #103 [June 23, 1959]: Frank J. Toland, W.C. Patton, W.P. Mitchell, Jackie Robinson McWilliams, Jared; Johnson, Charles TCA mass meeting on the second anniversary of the Crusade for Citizenship, June 23, 1959. Frank J. Toland recounts the history of the Crusade for Citizenship in Tuskegee. The Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball star Jackie Robinson gives support to the TCA’s crusade and praises the example that the Tuskegee movement was setting for the country. Recorded on a 7″ reel-to-reel and digitized by the Tuskegee University Archives. This Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) mass meeting, featuring an appearance by Jackie Robinson, took place on the second anniversary of start of the TCA’s Crusade for Citizenship, on June 23, 1959. The crusade was a voter registration and civil rights campaign that started in 1957 to fight Senate Bill 291, which gerrymandered the city limits to remove the black voter population from the city. The meeting started with a devotion from T.H. Brown and remarks from Professor Frank Toland. Toland gave a brief history of the Crusade for Citizenship in Tuskegee as part of his remarks. The Mount Olive Senior Choir led the music, followed by the financial appeal from W.C. Patton, and W.P. Mitchell introduced the main speaker for the night’s meeting. The Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball star Jackie Robinson gave a speech in support of the TCA’s crusade and praised the example that the Tuskegee movement was setting for the country. This meeting was recorded on a 7-inch reel-to-reel and digitized by the Tuskegee University Archives. Tue, 23 Jun 1959 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/964 1959-06-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/963 Tuskegee Civic Association Meeting #2 [July 2, 1957]: K.L. Buford, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy, and Martin Luther King Jr. Johnson, Charles; McWilliams, Jared Audio recording of July 2, 1957 mass meeting called by the Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) in the second month of the Tuskegee Boycott and Crusade for Citizenship. Main program includes speeches by K. L. Buford, a local minister and activist in Tuskegee, and civil rights leaders Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Transferred from 7in reel-to-reel in Tuskegee University Archives' TCA audio collection. This audio recording preserves a historic July 2, 1957 mass meeting called by the Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) in the second month of the Tuskegee Boycott and Crusade for Citizenship. The main program includes a message from K. L. Buford, a local minister and activist in Tuskegee, and speeches of support by Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Devotions are delivered by E.G. Braxter, reports and remarks by C.G. Gomillion, President of the TCA, and the Financial Appeal by S. T. Martin. TCA called a mass meeting in response to Senate Bill 219, a bill sponsored by Macon County state senator and White Citizens' Council leader Sam Engelhardt. SB 219 dramatically redrew the Tuskegee city limits, in order to gerrymander all but 5 registered black voters out of the city. At the moment of crisis, these historic speeches urged the community to "get in it," and called for endurance and unity in the struggles to overturn SB 219 and to end second-class citizenship in Macon County. The recording has been transferred from two sides of a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape preserved in the Tuskegee University Archives' TCA audio collection. Tue, 02 Jul 1957 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/963 1957-07-02T00:00:00Z