Birmingham Public Library

Part 2 of an interview with Judge U.W. Clemon, the first African-American federal judge in Alabama.

During this January 26, 2009 interview, Judge Clemon discusses his time on the bench and his role to desegregating the Birmingham Public Library.

Interviewed by James L. Baggett in the Birmingham Public Library Linn-Henley Building.

Recorded by Robert Jones and Richard Manoske

A video excerpt of this interview can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23IhDBAXZ4

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Part 1 of an interview with Judge U.W. Clemon, the first African-American federal judge in Alabama.

During this January 26, 2009 interview, Judge Clemon discusses his time on the bench and his role to desegregating the Birmingham Public Library.

Interviewed by James L. Baggett in the Birmingham Public Library Linn-Henley Building.

Recorded by Robert Jones and Richard Manoske.

A video excerpt of this interview can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23IhDBAXZ4.

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Renee Blalock, Associate Director of the Birmingham Public Library, reflects on Harper Lee’s famous depiction of childhood and discusses other memorable parts in the book.

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Mrs. Lillie M. H. Fincher, Birmingham Public Library Board President, remembers introducing the book to her grandmother in the early 1960s and then her grandaughter forty years later.

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Mr. Samuel A. Rumore, Jr., Birmingham Public Library Board member, reflects on his meeting with Harper Lee, her sister, and the possible origin of a name.

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Kelsey Bates, Birmingham Public Library Grants Writer and Assistant Archivist, reads from To Kill a Mockingbird — a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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Matt Layne, former storyteller at the North Birmingham Library and current Emmet O’Neal Library employee, reads from To Kill a Mockingbird: — Atticus’ famous speech on justice and equality.

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