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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BM-05
Marshall discusses civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, legislation that would become the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, and George C. Wallace’s attempt to stop the desegregation of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BM-02
Marshall discusses violence in the Freedom Rides during 1961, negotiations with the governors and public safety officials of Alabama and Mississippi to ensure safety of the riders; arrests of the riders, and the eventual desegregation of bus facilities.