Civil Rights-Falwell

File — Box: 79, Folder: 7, subfolder: 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection consists of research materials compiled by William Martin, Rice University professor of sociology, during the course of his research on the Christian religious right in the United States, as well as fundamentalists, fundamentalist education, evangelists such as Billy Graham, and other aspects of conservative Christian organizations. The materials consists of correspondence, notes, videos, transcriptions of video interviews, pamphlets, and books.

Oral history interviews on videotape and transcribed into print form make just over half of the collection. The video was recorded by Lumiere Productions in New York City in 1995 - January 1996, and transcribed primarily by Wordprint Studios largely as research material for Martin's book With God on Our Side.

Dates

Creation: 1975 - 2000

Restrictions on Access

This material is open for research. Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Extent

From the Collection: 130 Linear Feet (130 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Scanned book from Nixon and articles from Falwell along with from Word of Life. There was also a homemade timeline of Falwell during the Civil Rights era. There was also a transcript from Falwell's Press Conference and scans of Harding’s Field Notes, scanned Lynchburg Daily stories from 1985 with handwritten content list. Also included Jerry Falwell's 1985 fact sheet syllabus on South Africa, New York Times articles about Falwell and Tutu.