Maryland Historical Society
Library of Maryland History
Oral History Collections
OH 8151-8200
OH. 8151 KATHERINE RINEHART (1921-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Former Republican National Committeewoman
from Maryland.
Worked for Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin during his
second mayoral term.
Political aspects of McKeldin
as well as his beliefs and political ideas;
details regarding the mayor's office and civil
rights; the Congress of Racial
Equality; black leaders; the militant years.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul
1976
36 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8152 JAMES HEPBRON (1891-1979)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Police Commissioner of Baltimore
in the 1950s.
Blacks on the police force in
that period; Theodore R. McKeldin and
the civil rights movement; "Jim Crow" laws; Lillie
May Jackson; the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People; the char-
acter of Lillie May Jackson and her leadership.
Interviewer: Barry Lanman
1976
24 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8153 RAYMOND A. C. YOUNG (1906-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
United States Post Office carrier
and supervisor.
Discrimination in post office
and unions; success of Lillie May Jackson
and the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People as
due to "church people"; Lillie May Jackson's
opinion of Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin; a department store discrimination
fight.
Intervi.ewer: Leroy Graham 1976
2 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8154 CLARENCE M. MITCHELL, JR. (191
I-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Director of Washington bureau
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People beginning
in 1950.
His childhood; the Mitchell
family; the Young People's Forum; Carl
Murphy; leaders before Lillie May Jackson;
marriage to Juanita Jackson;
Lillie May Jackson s work in the National
Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People; Walter White; inter-racial
marriages; the Donald
Murray case; failure of media to report
civil rights struggles; relations of
blacks and Jews; the Scottsboro trial.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham 1976
85 pp. 3 hours
OH. 8155 MILDRED KEMP MOMBERGER (1912-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Personal secretary and administrative
assistant to Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin, 1937-74.
McKeldin's life and career,
especially his early years and involvement
with civil rights as the mayor of Baltimore;
the Herring Run Housing
Project; campaigns for mayor
and governor; the 1952 Republican Con-
vention.
2 hours
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
53 pp.
OH. 8156 JOSEPH CARTER (1904-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Member, Supreme Bench of Baltimore.
Notes only, from an untaped
interview. Early life of Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin, until 1952, when he appointed
Carter to the bench; McKeldin's
campaigns; Carter's own unsuccessful mayoral
campaign against Thomas
D'Alesandro, Jr.; Lillie May Jackson's role.
Interviewer: Susan Conwell
1976
6 pp., no tape
OH. 8157 PAUL BAILEY (1905-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Rural Southern Maryland lawyer
and former state senator.
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin; McKeldin
speaking in Saint Mary's
County in the late 1920s; the National Association
for the Advancement
of Colored People in Southern Maryland.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
7 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8158 WBAL RADIO PROGRAM
McKeldin-Jackson Project
David Glenn and Judge Robert
Watts appear on Alan Christian phone-
in program on Radio WBAL to discuss Lillie May
Jackson and Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin, answer questions, and receive
anecdotes relating
to civil rights activities of these two people.
Nine callers.
Interviewer: Alan Christian
1976
55 pp. 1 hour, 45"
OH. 8159 TUCKER D. DEARING (1916-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Baltimore lawyer and longtime
legal counsel for the Maryland branch,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin; Lillie
May Jackson; legislative accom-
plishments at the NAACP; the Veney Brothers case;
the Sandy Point Park
case; Lunsford vs. Beverly; public accommodations;
Carl Murphy; Juanita
Mitchell.
Interviewer: Susan Conwell 1976
43 pp. 1 hour, 45"
OH. 8160 LUTHER H. STUCKEY (1894-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
President of the Charles County
branch of the National Association for
Advancement of Colored People, teacher and federal
government em-
ployee.
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People and civil
rights activities in Charles County and Southern
Maryland in the 1940s
through the 1960s; improvements brought about
by Lillie May Jackson
and the NAACP; his own life and effects of discrimination;
the strong
stand on civil rights of Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
55 pp. 2 hours
Supplementary material: four-page
history of NAACP in Charles
County by Luther Stuckey; three-page biography
of Luther Stuckey.
OH. 8161 LOUIS GOLDSTEIN (1913-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Comptroller for the State of
Maryland from 1958.
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin's
achievements and his fight for civil rights
in the state senate; his own involvement with
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
4 pp. 50 minutes
Supplementary material: illustrated
article on Goldstein from the Bal-
timore Gas and Electric Company newsletter, November
197 1; interview
article with Goldstein from Maryland Banking Quarterly
(Spring, 1973), 6 pp.
OH. 8162 HOMER FAVOR (1924-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Dean, Morgan State College.
Contributions of Gov.
Theodore J. McKeldin, Lillie May Jackson,
Harry Cole, and others; Cambridge
(Maryland) riots; role of militants and
moderates; important black families
in Baltimore.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham
1976
1 p. 45 minutes
OH. 8163 MARTIN D. JENKINS (1905-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Director, Office of Urban
Affairs of the American Council on Education
since 1970 and president of Morgan
State College, 1948-70.
Carl Murphy's role in
the civil rights movement; Morgan State's role in
the community; Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin
and his support for civil
rights; Lillie May Jackson and her
honorary degree from Morgan State
College.
Interviewer: Leroy Graham
1976
2 pp. 1 hour, 20"
OH. 8164 VERNON NAIMASTER (1929-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Grand Titan of the Maryland
Ku Klux Klan during the mid-1960s.
Lawsuit brought against
Lillie May Jackson, Juanita Jackson Mitchell
and Baltimore branch of the NAACP
over loss of his 'ob; the general
effects of integration and desegregation
on white America.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
3 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8165 CLARENCE W. MILES (1897-1977)
Baltimore corporation
lawyer and active civic leader.
Public utilities legal
work; requirements for success in a legal career;
personal political activities; purchase
of Saint Louis baseball team for
Baltimore; origin and development
of the Greater Baltimore Committee;
the Wye Institute; close personal
association with the Duke and Duchess
of Windsor; efforts to reform Maryland
taws concerning horse-racing; the
Orphan's Court.
Interviewer: Randy Beehler
1976
4 pp. 1 hour, 45"
OH. 8166 CHARLES WHITEFORD (1914-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
journalist, covered Maryland
state legislature, 1947-70.
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin's
civil rights position and general concern
for human rights; the 1952 Republic
convention and McKeldin's speech
nominating Dwight D. Eisenhower for
president; McKeldin's relationship
with the press and the public; the
new impetus for "human rights."
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
4 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8167 EUGENE FEINBLATT (1919-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Practicing attorney and teacher,
former chairman of the Baltimore
Urban Renewal and Housing Agency.
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin's
concern for and motives in the civil
rights movement; importance of his advisor, Simon
Sobeloff; his own work
with housing and urban development; good will
between black community
and the white power structure.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
4 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8168 VICTOR FRENKEL (1908-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Prominent builder, closely connected
with Gov. Theodore R. Mc-
Keldin's political career.
Governor McKeldin's character,
work habits, influences, public works
activities, concern for civil rights, low key
approach in dealing with black
militants in the 1960s, and role in the Republican
Party.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
4 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8169 J. MILLARD TAWES (1894 1979)
Governor of Maryland, 1958-66.
Relationship with Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin, who preceded him;
Lillie May Jackson and the fight over liquor permits
near schools; char-
acters of McKeldin and Jackson- Route 40 desegregation;
Eastern Shore
desegregation; the Cambridge (Maryland) riots;
his own role in civil
rights.
Interviewer: Barry Lanman
1976
27 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8170 PARREN MITCHELL (1922-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
United States Congressman from
1970.
City-wide Young People's Forum;
the picketing of Ford's Theatre; the
Donald Murray case; Carl Murphy; Lillie May Jackson;
appointment by
Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin as director of the
Anti-Poverty Program;
director of the Human Relations Commission; the
Public Accommoda-
tions Law; Joseph Carter; the Omnibus Civil Rights
Act; capital punish-
ment.
Interviewer: Susan Conwell
1976
22 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8171 MILTON ALLEN (1917-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Associate Judge, Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City.
Legal aspects of the history
of the civil rights movement; selection of
test cases; legal challenges sponsored by the
National Assocation for the
Advancement of Colored People; Charles Houston;
Lillie May Jackson;
his own legal fights.
Interviewer: Susan Conwell
1976
26 pp. 1 hour, 15"
OH. 8172 WALTER SONDHEIM, JR. (1908-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Chairman, Charles Center-Inner
Habor Management and former pres-
ident of the Baltimore City School Board
and Urban League.
His and Lillie May Jackson's
involvement in eliminating discriminatory
practices in department stores; Jewish-black
relations; Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin and urban renewal; the National
Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People, the Congress of
Racial Equality, and Urban
League interactions.
Interviewer: Ellen Paul 1976
25 pp. 50 minutes
OH. 8173 DAVID W. ZIMMERMAN (1901-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Formerly deputy superintendent
of the State Department of Education.
Role of civil rights movement
in public education; desegregation;
pressure from Lillie May Jackson and the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People; unequal salaries
for blacks and whites;
the 1954 Supreme Court decision; Baltimore
City-County relations; busing
for integration.
Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1976
36 pp. 1 hour, 301,
OH. 8174 CLARENCE BLOUNT (1921-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Maryland state senator beginning
in 1970.
Personal interest in civil rights
movement; Lillie May Jackson's person-
ality; financial structure of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People; education and 'obs for
blacks; leadership of Carl
Murphy and Lillie May Jackson; the march
to Annapolis in 1942.
Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1976
4 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8175 JAMES W. ROUSE (1914-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Chairman, the Rouse Committee,
banking and real estate firm.
Public housing and slum re-development;
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin's
character; accomplishment for blacks; political
success; his own work with
Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Lillie May
Jackson.
Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1976
4 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8176 LAWRENCE CARDINAL SHEHAN (1898-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Archbishop of Baltimore, 1962-74.
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin's
religious convictions; the Catholic church
and civil rights; attitudes of "ethnic"
Catholics; McKeldin's sincerity and
character.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1976
3 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8177 GOV. THEODORE R. MCKELDIN (1900 74)
Taped recording of speech
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Speech given for the Maryland
Day Pageant meeting of the Honor
Society in History of the University of Baltimore.
Why he became a politician;
the need for better men to hold elective
and appointed posts; describes a strong mayoral
form of government in
Baltimore; story regarding George Washington's
commission in Annapolis;
recitation of the poem, "That Guy in the Glass."
Includes invocation by
the Rev. W. T. Durr and welcome by H. Mebane Turner.
Donor: James F. Schneider 1969
2 pp. 25 minutes
OH. 8178 ROBERT JOY COLLINGE (1928-
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
General Manager of the Baltimore
Opera Company beginning in 1965.
His early life; Baltimore as
an art center; financial support; audiences;
media support-, the function and management of
the Opera Society.
Interviewer: Paula Rome 1976
5 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8179 PHILIP ARNOULT (A. 1960-78)
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
Director of the Baltimore Theatre
Project.
Personal background; Baltimore
audiences; support for theatre; new
trends in theatre; plans for the future.
Interviewer: Paula Rome 1976
5 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8180 P. WILLIAM FILBY (1911-
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
Director, Maryland Historical
Society, 1972-78.
Education and previous career
in British Army Intelligence during
World War 11; past employment at the Peabody Institute
library; descrip-
tion of Maryland Historical Society membership;
financial support by city
and state; Society's library and basic function
in the community; council
and trustee membership; plans for the future.
Interviewer: Paula Rome 1976
5 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8181 THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, JR. (1937-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Son of Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin;
private laywer.
His father's life, both public
and private; the man, his family relation-
ships, and lack of a personal life; a view of
his last years.
Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1976
31 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8182 MCKELDIN-JACKSON PROJECT COLLOQUIUM
Proceedings and speeches of
a public meeting November 16, 1976,
presented to mark the conclusion of the Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin-
Lillie May Jackson Proj'ect on Civil Rights
in Maryland, 1935-1970.
Includes speeches by Clarence Mitchell,
Jr., Pearl Brackett, and Leon
Sachs with Charles Wagandt, moderator, questions
and remarks by mem-
bers of the audience, and prepared texts
of Mitchell and Brackett speeches.
1976-1977 49 pp. 1 hour, 30"
OH. 8183 JUANITA JACKSON MITCHELL (1913-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Daughter of Lillie May
Jackson. Last of series of interviews concerning
her mother and the civil rights struggle.
Student sit-ins of the
early 1960s; the Students Non-Violent Coordinat-
ing Committee; black leaders; meeting with
Gov. Spiro Agnew after the
Baltimore riots of 1968; Freedom House;
police cooperation; a talk by
Eleanor Roosevelt to the National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People in 1944; the march on Annapolis
in 1942.
Interviewer: Charles Wagandt
1976
59 pp. 2 hours, 10"
OH. 8184 ELEANORA BOWLING KANE (1907- )
Supervisor of radio-television
education for Baltimore schools, 1935-48.
Beginning of radio programming
for schools; use of radio-television
instruction during 'anitors' strike which
closed the schools in 1953; tran-
sition to television; Radio Children's Theatre;
rationale for program
preparation; teacher guides.
Interviewer: Anna E. Fehl
1976
2 pp. 25 minutes
OH. 8185 ENRICO LIBERTI (1894-1979)
Baltimore cabinetmaker,
1920-77, and proprietor of the Chimney Cor-
ner Antique Shop.
His early life; work during
World War 1; important pieces of his cabinet
work. Interview done for Appian Society
oral history programs.
Interviewer: Francis Colletta
1973
1 p. 1 hour
OH. 8186 GEORGE CHANDLER (1914-
Maryland Sports Collection, 1977
Executive director of
the Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Origin of the Hall of
Fame and comparison with those of other sports;
current activities and future plans; players
inducted in 1976; index of
lacrosse players in the United States; assistance
offered to community
lacrosse teams.
Interviewer: Alfred Kolinsky
1977
1 p. 40 minutes
OH. 8187 HENRY C. B. CLAGETT (1916-
Maryland Sports Collection,
1977
Childhood and games at
"Weston," sixth-generation family home in
Prince George's County and the site of early
jousting games; social relation-
ships and political connotations of jousting;
breeding of jousting horses;
background of Jousting as the Maryland state
sport; attire of contestants;
individual rather than team approach; the
future of jousting as a corn-
mercially successful sport.
Interviewer: Alfred Kolinskv
1977
1 p. 40 minutes
OH. 8188 CRAIG TAYLOR (1904-
Maryland Sports Collection, 1977
Lacrosse editor, Baltimore
Evening Sun.
Various aspects of lacrosse,
basic concepts, early origins, rules, physical
requirements for players and playing sites;
future of the game-, well-known
names in Maryland lacrosse and anecdotes
on players and coaches.
Interviewer: Alfred Kolinskv
1976
1 p. 1 hour
OH. 8189 SNOWDEN CARTER (fl. 1960 78)
Maryland Sports Collection, 1977
Editor of Maryland Horse
and executive director of the Maryland Horse
Breeders' Association.
Horse owners and breeders
in Maryland, with comparison to other
states and countries, the Belair Estate-,
the National Museum of Racing;
aspects of various forms of betting; state
lottery; commercial aspects of
horse breeding today and in the future.
Interviewer: Alfred Kolinsky
1976
1 p. 1 hour, 20"
OH. 8190 TOM FREUDENHEIM (1937-
Marvland Artists Series, 1976
Director of the Baltimore
Museum of Art, 1971-79.
Personal background- problems
of financial support for the arts; role of
the museum in the community-to collect,
preserve, and teach; museum
users; media influences; the friendly cooperation
among art institutions of
Baltimore.
Interviewer: Paula Rome
1976
4 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8191 WILLIAM FINN (1929
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
Director of the Maryland
Institute beginning in 1974.
Personal background; function
of an art school; relationship to the
community, support and staff; national reputation
of the Maryland
Institute; Baltimore audiences.
Interviewer: Paula Rome
1976
4 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8192 RICHARD FRANKO GOLDMAN (1910-80)
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
President of the Peabody
Institute and director of Conservatory of
Music, 1968-771- composer, conductor, and
writer.
Personal background; definition
of "the arts"; problems of financing a
teaching institution; policy-making decisions
at the Peabody Institute.
Interviewer: Paula Rome
1976
4 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8193 WILBUR HUNTER (1915-81)
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
Director of the Peale
Museum, 1946-79.
Personal background; Baltimore
City government ownership of the
museum; the Carroll mansion; the Old Friends
Meeting House; the
Washington Monument; Peale family paintings;
his philosophy that "the
Museum is the Message",- financial support
by Baltimore City; member-
ship-, ownership of the collection.
Interviewer: Paula Rome
1976
5 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8194 RICHARD H. RANDALL, JR. (1926
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
Director, the Walters
Art Gallery, 1965-80.
Personal background; the
Walters Art Gallery-the new wing, finances,
visitors, changes since he became director,
function of a museum, strengths
and weaknesses of the collection, and the
relationship of the gallery,
trustees, and municipal government.
Interviewer: Paula Rome
1976
5 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8195 JOSEPH LEAVITT (1916-
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
General manager of the
Baltimore Symphony beginning in 1973.
Personal background; Baltimore
as an art community-, comparison with
Washington, D.C.; local financial support
for the symphony- audiences
and programming; recent growth in subscriptions;
chief function of a
symphony; the symphony's future in Baltimore.
Interviewer: Paula Rome
1976
5 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8196 PETER W. CULMAN (1938-
Maryland Artists Series, 1976
Managing director of Center
Stage beginning in 1973.
Personal background; Center
Stage staff-, audiences; new buildings;
finances; choice of plays; Baltimore's support
of the arts.
Interviewer: Paula Rome
1976
5 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8197 MUNRO LEAF (1905-76)
Author of Children's books
including Ferdinand the Bull and Manners Can
Be Fun.
Childhood in Maryland
and Washington, D.C.; his writing career in
New York; his military service; his books;
retirement in Garrett Park,
Maryland. Received from Montgomery County
Historical Society Oral
History Collection.
Interviewer: Marguerite
Murray 1975
Transcription only, 21 pp.
OH. 8198 CLARENCE M. MITCHELL, JR. (191
I-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Director of the Washington,
D.C. bureau of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People beginning
in 1950 and son-in-law
of Dr. Lillie May Jackson.
His impressions of Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin in areas of human
rights, civil rights, and relationship with
the black community. Bulk of
interview is in response to questions concerning
Dr. Lillie May Jackson's
personal life, motivations, family, strengths,
and weaknesses.
Interviewer: Charles Wagandt
1976
62 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8199 GWILYM ELVET EVANS (1907-
Welsh immigrant to Baltimore
in 1926.
His work as a boy in a
Welsh tin mill; the Bethlehem rolling mills; the
Eastern Rolling Mill (now Eastern Stainless
Steel); Welsh migration to
United States; the Welsh community of Baltimore.
Donated by Towson
State University.
Interviewer: Robert H.
Casey 1976
77 pp. 2 hours
Supplementary material:
appendices with diagrams of hot rolling and
acetylene burning.
OH. 8200 REBA SILVER (MRS. LEE) (1900-
Came to Baltimore with
her family in 1905.
Childhood in a Jewish
neighborhood; work as a secretary for the
Baltimore City Water Department, 1940-65;
World War 11 in Baltimore;
the Jewish Community Center; Hadassah. Donated
by Towson State
University.
Interviewer: Rodney Stem
1976
26 pp. 1 hour
