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His grandfather bought a lot for their family home on Peachtree Street, now Phipps Plaza in Buckhead. Cecil’s family belonged to the Temple, a Reform congregation.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil attended Highland School, Bass High School, and Marist School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Yale University and earned a master’s degree in architecture at Harvard University. In World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater with Marine Corps as a dive bomber. After the war, he returned to Atlanta and started the architectural firm Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild and Paschal (FABRAP). Under his leadership, the firm designed Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Coca-Cola headquarters, AT\u0026amp;T Midtown Center, and Georgia Power Company Corporate Headquarters.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil was an active participant in the political and social fabric of Atlanta. Throughout his civil engagement he served as chair of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for Urban Renewal, the Black-Jewish Coalition, and the Community Council of the City of Atlanta. He was also a King Center board member.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was married to Hermoine Weil Alexander (1922-1983) until 1983 when she was killed in a car accident. After her death, he remarried Helen Eisemann (1922-2014). He and Hermoine had four children: Judith Alexander Augustine, Douglas Alexander, and Therese Alexander Milkey. Cecil Alexander died in 2013 at age 95.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eCecil discusses his ancestors dating back to 1760 and his early life in Atlanta.  He talks about his work as an architect and his eventual retirement.  Cecil discusses his involvement in city planning and the Civil Rights Movement and the changes in Atlanta over his lifetime. He recalls the 1983 car crash that killed his wife, Hermoine Weil Alexander, and the impact it had on him.  He also discusses his second marriage to Helen Eiseman Alexander.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27973"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCecil A. Alexander, Jr. interviewed by Elaine Levin on July 1, 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCecil Abraham Alexander, Jr. (1918-2013) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Julia A. Moses and Cecil A. Alexander. The Alexander family Atlanta roots go back to 1848 when Cecil’s grandfather, Aaron Alexander, came to Atlanta from Charleston, South Carolina, one of the first Jewish families to arrive in Atlanta. His grandfather bought a lot for their family home on Peachtree Street, now Phipps Plaza in Buckhead. Cecil’s family belonged to the Temple, a Reform congregation.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil attended Highland School, Bass High School, and Marist School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Yale University and earned a master’s degree in architecture at Harvard University. In World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater with Marine Corps as a dive bomber. After the war, he returned to Atlanta and started the architectural firm Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild and Paschal (FABRAP). Under his leadership, the firm designed Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Coca-Cola headquarters, AT\u0026amp;T Midtown Center, and Georgia Power Company Corporate Headquarters.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil was an active participant in the political and social fabric of Atlanta. Throughout his civil engagement he served as chair of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for Urban Renewal, the Black-Jewish Coalition, and the Community Council of the City of Atlanta. He was also a King Center board member.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was married to Hermoine Weil Alexander (1922-1983) until 1983 when she was killed in a car accident. After her death, he remarried Helen Eisemann (1922-2014). He and Hermoine had four children: Judith Alexander Augustine, Douglas Alexander, and Therese Alexander Milkey. Cecil Alexander died in 2013 at age 95.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCecil discusses his ancestors dating back to 1760 and his early life in Atlanta.  He talks about his work as an architect and his eventual retirement.  Cecil discusses his involvement in city planning and the Civil Rights Movement and the changes in Atlanta over his lifetime. He recalls the 1983 car crash that killed his wife, Hermoine Weil Alexander, and the impact it had on him.  He also discusses his second marriage to Helen Eiseman Alexander.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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It's been ten years since your\noriginal interview in 1980. How has life changed for you?\n\nALEXANDER: It's changed dramatically because in 1983, I was in an automobile\nwreck. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A drunk boy, 16, hit me head on. My wife, Hermi, was killed. She lived\nabout two and a half hours. I was badly injured. Although I'm about 90 percent\nrecovered physically, I haven't ever totally recovered from that experience.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I've also retired, which is a trauma. I've moved. I live in a different house.\nMy son-in-law, who I valued very highly, Herb Millkey [Jr.], was a successful\nyoung architect, died. I remarried to [Helen] Eisemann ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and that has been a way\nout of the darkness. We, together, have seven children. I have three, she has\nfour. All, but one, live in Atlanta. All but my son, who does live in Atlanta,\nare married. She has very talented children. One of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them, Artie Harris who's\nArthur Harris's son, works as a representative for The \"Washington Post\" in the\nsouth. He also is a freelance writer. He's just gone on a program for CNN, which\nwill be like \"60 Minutes.\" Alex Harris is a fine photographer. He has a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"department of Documentary Studies I believe it is, at Duke [University]. Jill\n[Harris Brown], her first daughter, is married to a fine young man, George\nBrown, who specializes in foreign affairs, foreign relations, and teaches at\nAgnes Scott [College]. She's a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graphic artist. Sophie [Joel], who studied\nnursing but has really never practiced it, is married to Alan Joel. They have a\nbeautiful little daughter named Helen, so there are two Helens in the family. My\nown children, Terri, who as I said lost her husband, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"has done a magnificent job\nof putting her life back together. She has two fine children, Alexander and\nRachael. Alexander is 17 and wants to go to University of Virginia. Rachael, I'm\nnot sure where she wants to go or to do with her life. Judith is married to Ed\nAugustine, a lawyer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here whose specialty is environmental concerns. They have a\nkid whose name is Jed who is full of energy and enthusiasm and is a delight.\nThen there's Doug, my son, who is in public relations working on his own. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nguess that accounts pretty much for the children. The families grew up together,\nreally. Helen and my first wife, Hermi, were good friends. We lived around the\ncorner from each other. The children all knew each other. Jill and my daughter,\nJudith, particularly were friends. 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In her youth she was on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Broadway. She was a Junior Miss. She was in a\nMoss Hart production called \"Winged Victory\" that went all over the country\nduring the war. A few years ago she decided to go back to it. She makes\ntelevision commercials and print jobs, as she calls them, and also industrial\nfilms which are training films. 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Our families' experiences have been so different, because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I never\nreally knew what it was to be single. I married in 1943 when I was 25 in\nservice. 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I could go on and get into this deeper and deeper, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's always in\nflux. It's always changing. Of course, the thing you miss most, when you've been\nwith somebody as long as Hermi and I were together, were the shared experiences\nthat are just a part of you. If something happens in real time today, it reminds\nyou both of something that happened years ago. 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That was going to give me what I wanted in terms of some\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"order, some rhythm. I have been working some now on projects that both of us are\ninterested in with Joe Amisano who is a very fine architect who is with Henry\nToombs. My first job when I came back to Atlanta was with Henry. So, why did we\nquit so early? I think part of it was not realizing the effect ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of quitting. I\nthink part of it was the logic of turning the operation over to younger men that\nwould give it new energy and new life. If I had to do it over again, I would\nhave stayed in it longer, as a principal.\n\nLEVIN: It's almost as if you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"created an institution that you took care of at the\nexpense of yourself.\n\nALEXANDER: Yes, that's right. That's a good thought.\n\nLEVIN: Cecil, there's been a lot of shifts in the Atlanta community scene in the\nlast ten years.\n\nALEXANDER: Let me finish up this thing a little bit about my career. I am still\nholding myself out as a consultant. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It used to be if you couldn't do anything\nelse, you taught. Now you become a consultant. I had an experience that I\nenjoyed of designing a house just recently that's been moved into. I hadn't\ndesigned a house in 30 years, but I'll take all of those that I can get.\n\nLEVIN: Where is it?\n\nALEXANDER: It's out in Lost Mountain [Georgia]. That's on the road between\nMarietta and Dallas, Georgia. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's in the middle of the battlefields around\nKennesaw Mountain for a very fine client, Jackie and Bob Silliman. Jackie really\nran it. She knows what she wants. She makes up her mind and then she sticks with\nit. That's great from an architect's viewpoint. I'm doing that sort of thing. I\nwas also consultant to the Standard Club ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when they were building their new\nbuilding. That was what they call a design build project. I represented the club\nin dealing with the other architect and the builder. I've done things like that.\nThe flow, though, isn't there. That's what's nice to have a place to go. I do\nhave an office by the way. I still ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have an office. But go ahead now.\n\nLEVIN: Career-wise, you're open to more design excitement for yourself?\n\nALEXANDER: Yes. What I said to RFI when they offered me this job, \"No, I haven't\nreally done what I studied to do, what I wanted to do for some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years, and that's\nto be a designer. What you're offering me is fine and I certainly appreciate it,\nbut it's more of what I've been doing in the past and even more directed towards\nselling rather than being an architect.\" If I had known that there wasn't going\nto ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"be a lot of work coming in, I might have hung around a little bit longer even\nin that job, but I don't really regret that too much.\n\nLEVIN: I started to ask you about shifts you've experienced in the Atlanta community.\n\nALEXANDER: They're tremendous. I mean it's obvious they're tremendous. I grew up\nin a small southern town and I bought all the ideas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of segregation. My father\nwas a complete gentleman. He would never have used the term \"nigger.\" He would\nnever have insulted someone to their face knowingly, but he was in the mold of\nthat time that the Black was inferior. If he stayed in his place you could be\ngood friends, but there were definite limits. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think one thing that hadn't been\ngiven a lot of credit by the Blacks, the younger ones. . . one reason Atlanta\nwent through its changes as well as it did was because so many of the leaders in\nAtlanta during those Civil Rights days had been raised by Black women. And in\nsome cases loved them, and were closer to them than they were to their own\nmothers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Contrasting that with New York and Chicago where there was no\ninterplay, and certainly no love, I mean there was real love. I think that that\nhad a tremendous impact on the Atlanta business community. The business\ncommunity wanted the federal government to do what they did so they could excuse\nthemselves to their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"peers. But underneath all that, in my opinion, they knew\nthat what they were doing was just and right, and needed to be done, and had to\nbe done, business or no business. I'm sure the business had an effect, the idea\nof the boycott and the idea of a city that was in turmoil like Birmingham\n[Alabama]. 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I was talking to Luther Alverson, the judge who\nI admire very much and who actually, with Bill Rothschild, married Helen and me.\nWe were talking about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the changes, civil rights, and so on. He laughed and he\nsaid, \"We wanted to share. We didn't want to give it all up.\" It hadn't gone\nthat way. Andy Young said once, \"I never dreamt,\" he said where I was present.\n\"I never dreamt when I was a kid in New Orleans that one day I could be mayor of\na large southern city ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like Atlanta.\" I said, \"Andy, do you know what? There are\na lot of white kids in Atlanta who can't dream that either.\" He sort of grinned.\nI hope it becomes a balance. I think you've seen in this recent election that\nthere are Blacks who are voting for the person rather than for the race.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ultimately, that would be a real fine, a real democracy.\n\nALEXANDER: But the growth of the city. . . I've often stood downtown looked\naround, and thought about the numbers of changes in buildings. My father who\ndied in 1953, if he were standing there with me he wouldn't know where he was\nalmost. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The traffic here has gotten horrendous. The city has kept up in a major\nway with its problems of transportation, I think, with MARTA [Metropolitan\nAtlanta Rapid Transit Authority] which I played a hand in creating. I take some\npride in that. The highway systems, the tremendous airport. . . 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He said,\n\"Well, that's what we say now.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I drew up a scheme and showed it to him. Dick\nRich looked at it. Dick said, \"That's ridiculous. We'll never move out there.\nWe'll wait until it builds up out as far as Oglethorpe [University]. Then we'll\ngo out there if we do anything.\" From the city downtown where the life was,\nwhere the movies were, where there were almost no Blacks on the street ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\ndowntown, it certainly has changed. At night, it's not very lively although\nUnderground [Atlanta] is changing that. There's a feeling of a white person in\ndowntown Atlanta of almost being, at least on the weekends, of almost being an\nalien. I was in the car and somebody asked me, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"This really must be a. . . \" He\nknew I was from Atlanta. \"A [unintelligible] you being in this all Black city.\"\nI said, \"Oh, no. I'm used to it because Atlanta on the weekends and in the\nevening is a Black city. I don't feel threatened by it, but it is there. You\nasked me what had changed and that's certainly it. Of course, what set it up\nwere the Whites running. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I gave a talk to the Rotary [Club] downtown some years\nago and stated just that. I said, \"If you want to keep your city in a balanced\npopulation, you need to stay. You need to stay with your businesses and you need\nto live here.\" Incidentally, where we are right now is not in the City [of\nAtlanta]. Somebody who owned this house gerrymandered the line around it so they\ncould put their kids in DeKalb [County] schools. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't realize that until\nafter I had bought it. It wouldn't have made any difference, but I don't like\nnot being in the city. The thing that changed that's sort of distressing to me\nis the trust between people. The feeling of the handshake being the same thing\nas a notarized, witnessed contract, which I grew up with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here in Atlanta. It\njust isn't there. You can see it in the architectural documents. Phil Shutze was\none of the greater Atlanta architects. I saw his specifications. He wrote,\n\"There will be some fancy brickwork here and there.\" Today if you said that, you\nwould have nothing. You might have one fancy brick and that's it. 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The acceptance of the gay population, not\ntotally accepted by a long shot, but when I grew up here people would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whisper\nabout, \"I think maybe he's a homosexual.\" I don't think we used the word \"gay\"\nthen. \"Fairy,\" that was the word. Now it's open, it's there. I guess I sound\nstuffy, but some of the things. . . I was thinking about this just this morning.\n. . that we took for granted when I was a young man here all being in a\npaternalistic, segregated ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"society, but the feelings about family, the feelings\nabout being a gentleman and a lady. The feelings about not taking, and I'm not\nsaying across the board, undue advantage of other people. The concern for the\npoor, certainly again limited, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but it was there even in the [Great] Depression.\nWithout that, the people who were servants in the white houses would have\nstarved because there were no back up programs, really, in the Depression. A\nsense of civility is missing. The younger people that come in here, since they\ndon't have that past to contrast it with, most of them I know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think this is a\nmagnificent civilization. It's a great place to be. Nothing like it in the\nworld. They're probably right. I think also about their attitude, about what I\nconsider daunting prices on things. They've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"never known when you could buy a\ncandy bar for a nickel, and all this business about inflation running at five\npercent, six percent. You go and you buy something. You think back a few years\nand you think, \"Five percent. Bologna.\"\n\nLEVIN: Yes, it really comes home at the grocery store.\n\nALEXANDER: Yes, or automobiles. 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When I got my acceptance to Yale I got this notice that if I\ndidn't have $1,000 to cover room, board, and tuition for the year, I better not\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come. Now, it's up to $22,000, $25,000. All of this I find very unsettling, very\ndisturbing, as I get to a point in my life where I'm no longer productive. I\nremember my father talking about when you could do all sorts of things for ten\ncents that then cost a dollar. 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I think I was romanticizing the relationship in the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish community when I grew up. There was a strong differentiation between the\nolder Jewish families and the newer ones that had come in here.\n\nLEVIN: You mean, German versus Russian Jews, Sephardic?\n\nALEXANDER: Then, of course, there were the Sephardic Jews who looked down on the\nGermans. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They\neventually were married. He devoted a great deal of his time to getting her\nsister out of Russia, her brother and her father. It went beyond that. He worked\nat bringing Russian immigrants in back then in the 1920s. He was very opposed to\nIsrael. He felt a dual ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"citizenship would be directed toward the Jew, that he\nwould be ostracized as an American citizen. From having been \"Man of the Year\"\nin the Jewish community, when he died, there was absolutely no response from\nB'nai B'rith which he'd been president of, and so forth. Nobody came to the\nfuneral which I really was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"angry about. I thought he had earned that right to\nhave them honor him at his death, but it wasn't done. I've sort of gotten afield\nfrom your question so you better give it back to me.\n\nLEVIN: It was how the Jewish community has changed in the last ten years.\n\nALEXANDER: Now, I think these schisms. . . a lot of the older Jewish families,\ntheir children ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have married out of the faith. Incidentally, my uncle wrote a\nbook about the family in Charleston and in Georgia. If somebody had married out\nof the faith he just left them out of the book. It was an interesting situation\nthere that he felt that strongly about it. I think those schisms have broken\ndown. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, you've got a new wave of immigration coming in. It remains to\nbe seen how that will be handled. The \"old\" Jewish families here, they've\ncertainly lost the standing they had when I was a kid in terms of the influence\nnot only in the Jewish community, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the community at large. They were part of\nthe then Atlanta power structure. Now it doesn't. . . I mean an older member\ndoesn't matter. They're accepted on what they are and what they produce, which\nis a much healthier thing and which our ancestors hadn't had done. From that\nviewpoint, I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it is better. I think there's still a strong division,\nunfortunately, among the various Jewish congregations, although there's some\nmovement in that direction. I remember when [Jacob] Rothschild was rabbi of the\nTemple. I was head of community affairs or something like that, and was bringing\npeople in to speak. I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Well, Jack, one thing is this schism, between the\nOrthodox and the Conservatives and the Reformed, is real. We're talking about\nrace relations, Black and White, and here in our own religion we've got these\nschisms. Why don't we have a joint meeting on that.\" \"Oh, no, that would never\nwork.\" I don't know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"how much that has changed, but it is an interesting comment\non how a group who considers themselves the true believers will turn their backs\nmore violently on believers that they don't consider are genuine, than they\nwould on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Catholics or the Protestants, or whatever. That certainly has\nchanged in general. Certainly those schisms are still there and I think are\ngrowing actually, in some respects. In others, I don't think as much. But yes,\nthat's where I am on that subject.\n\nLEVIN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How do you think antisemitism has changed? You talked earlier about\n\"locker room antisemitism.\" How would you evaluate where we are now in the community?\n\nALEXANDER: I think that \"locker room\" business is still there. I think there's\n\"black Semitism\" now that didn't exist before. I think that the Jew is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"accepted\nmuch more on his own talents and ability in the general community. I think Sam\nMassell broke the mold when he became mayor, but I don't think that it's gone by\na long shot. I feel that what's going on in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel has influenced the feeling\nthat the Jew has lost some of the sympathy and support that was due him as a\nresult of what happened in Germany. Rightfully or wrongfully, I think that's the\nfeel. Back at the time of the Six-Day War there was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man named Jack McDonough\nwho had been the CEO of Georgia Power, one of our clients. When he retired I\nasked him if he would come with us, help us with management, and also help us\nget work. He looked at me. He was sort of a delightful guy. Two of his best\nfriends were Jewish, Boolie [sp] Mayer and Frank Ferst. They played football\ntogether at Georgia Tech. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd never been in his home. I had never been invited\nfor dinner. I had the feeling that he was one of these \"locker room\" types that\nI was talking about. The morning that it became obvious that the Israelis had\nreally riled up the Mideast in the 1967 war, he was sitting there at his desk in\nour office. He's got the paper. I walked in and he says, \"Man, boy did we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lick\ntheir asses.\" \"We.\" That was a high point, I think, across the board, an\nAmerican feeling about the Jews. There was all this business about the Jews\nbeing afraid to fight and being in the Supply Corps and so forth. I never ran\ninto any antisemitism that I know of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I was in the service. I did run into\nsome antisemitic statements. I went through a flight school that American\nAirlines set up for marines and the navy. A very fine pilot that was an\ninstructor, a regular American Airlines pilot, made some antisemitic remarks\nwhich I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"called him on. Other than that, I just don't remember running into it.\nIt may have been that the Marines were a special instance.\n\nLEVIN: You brought up an interesting point. The image of the Jew in today's\npress is very different than it was. How do you respond to that?\n\nALEXANDER: With ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tremendous regret. I haven't read it yet, but this week's \"Time\"\nis talking about the Palestinians and their \"Bloody Search for a Nationhood.\"\nThey said [unintelligible] and what's going on in the Mideast and the argument\nthat had the Arabs cared that much about them, they had many years they could\nhave done something about it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If I lived in Israel, I don't know where I would\nbe on it. But living where I do, I just regret the image and the reality of the\nJew as the peacemaker, the bringer of the highest level of culture, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"regard\nfor human life, and so forth, seeing that damage is very disturbing to me. I\nregret it and I hope some way, somehow it will come full cycle. For so many\nyears, if you were not a hawk here in America on what was going on in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel,\nyou were a self-hater. You were a latent anti-Semite. Anybody who said, \"Maybe\nthere's another way,\" was rejected. I think some of that's changed. I think the\nvoices are speaking out. They're saying some of it pragmatically. If you keep on\nthis course, you're going to alienate your source of support in the United\nStates. . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maybe not in the Jewish community, but in the Congress. So, it has\nnow become you're considered some sort of a traitor or misguided \"dove.\" As I\nsaid when Israel was first formed and I was right out of service, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wanted to go\nover there. I wanted to go fight. I didn't, partially because I was just\nmarried. Hermi took a very negative view of having me away for four years and\nthen going off again to fight in Israel. I just think it's a fact of age, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but\nthere needs to be a resolution that takes care of humanity in this whole\nbusiness in the Mideast, in my book. There would be some people that'll hear\nthis tape that will want to come out and hang me, I guess, over that.\n\nLEVIN: I think you're voicing a widespread view, Cecil. You're mentioning Hermi\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"reminds me you were very active in the Civil Rights Movement with Hermi. Any\nthoughts about that? Where that is now?\n\nALEXANDER: I quoted my conversation with Luther Alverson. I don't know why I was\nnaive and expecting something different. I remember Helen Bullard. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you know her?\n\nLEVIN: Sure.\n\nALEXANDER: Helen Bullard, just for the tape, was one of the most brilliant\nstrategists in politics that ever lived. She and I worked together very closely\nduring Ivan Allen's campaign. I took off three months and worked on it with her.\nWe were having lunch together one day. She spoke very softly. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You had to really\nlisten. She said, \"The people who are saying, 'What do the negroes want?'\" In\nthose days they were \"negroes.\" Now they're \"African Americans.\" You've got to\nkeep moving. \"What do they want?\" she says. \"It's obvious. They want it all.\nThey want to be full citizens with full access to the government ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the country\nand the economic strength of the country. Anybody that thinks they want\nsomething short of that-just doesn't know human nature.\" That, of course, is\nwhat happened. I said to some of my Black friends when things like [Marion]\nBarry came up and so on, \"You guys are acting too much like white folks. I\nexpected better of you.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They laughed. But yes, it's been a disappointment. I\nsaw Martin Luther King's dream of a united country where color really didn't\nmatter. In some ways it's happening. The people who have ascended the scale ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are\npretty close to being a part of the total mainstream of this country. The only\nthing that's going to keep us from this separatism that I worry about is the\nacceptance of the Black, not only in politics which he's forced his way into by\nvoter registration. . . force may not be the right word. I mean, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't mean\nthat negatively. If in the next 25 years the Black can really become part of the\neconomic structure, then the country is going to stay together, at least as far\nas Black and white are concerned. I say the same thing about the Hispanics. They\nneed to become a part. I don't feel Atlanta, at this point, has waked up to the\nfact that we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are an international city. Not that we've got Arabs, not that we've\ngot Japanese and Germans and Dutch and English investments in Georgia, but that\nwe've got an international population. Garden Hills [Elementary School], the\nkids that went there, over a third of that student body ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were foreign, mainly\nAsiatics and Hispanics. They're going to become a strong factor in Atlanta's\npolitical life in the next 10 or 15 years. Somebody better wake up to that.\n\nLEVIN: In terms of your Jewish identity, you've been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"active in the Jewish\ncommunity in different aspects of it in the past. How do you predict you'll be\ninvolved now and in the future?\n\nALEXANDER: Well, I'm 72. When you get to be 72, you take it a day at a time. I\ndon't know. I really can't answer that question. I expect to always\n[unintelligible]. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I expect always to have a chip on my shoulder about anyone\nwho's making or doing any Jewish things. I don't feel particularly more drawn to\nthe religion. I accept Judaism as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"religion from my viewpoint and my exposure\nto it as being the most rational of the religions I know anything about.\nTherefore, it's easier for me to accept. As my life expectancy grows shorter, I\ndon't see it as a comfort particularly. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I sometimes regret that I don't find\nmore of that. I used to feel the Catholics were blessed in that they had such\nstrong feelings, but I don't believe the Catholics have that as much as the kids\nI grew up with. I was at Marist [School] for two years surrounded by Catholics\nand taught by Catholic priests. They were absolutely certain that they were\ngoing to go to heaven. There was no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"question about it. There was a kid in my\nneighborhood and we were finding out \"the facts of life.\" I told this Catholic\nkid how he came about. I won't quote it exactly because this is for the ages,\nwhy he was there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"I don't believe it.\" He says, \"My parents are good\nCatholics. They wouldn't do a thing like that.\" There was a strong feeling of\nthe Catholics I knew that if they had faith, the hereafter was assured. If they\nwere good and confessed their sins, they would end up in heaven. I think the\nJewish faith leaves that question open. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, one argument used to be that God\nbrought me here. God has made a good life for me. I'm in his hands and whatever\nhappens, I have faith that will, too, be good. But even that, when you think\nabout the Holocaust, you think about antisemitism in Russia, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming out in\nthe Eastern European nations. . . it's always been latent in France, you've got\nto question that one. Has God been all that caring for people during their\nlifetime? But, whatever is, is. Ever since I was in that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wreck, I lost my fear\nof dying.\n\nLEVIN: I wondered how the wreck impacted. That kind of a tragedy impacts your\noriginal saying that life is good and God will take care of us?\n\nALEXANDER: It had a tremendous impact. I suppose some people going through that\nexperience would go to faith and religion as a support. It didn't do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that for me\nat all. I was not able to go to Hermi's funeral because I was in the hospital.\nIn fact, I was operated on during the funeral. I did ask Rabbi [Alvin] Sugarman\nto come by and read some of the service to me because I needed a closure. I\nneeded to accept the fact of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hermi's death. It did do something for me, but when\nI think about it, the thing that did most for me in getting through that time\nwas one of Winston Churchill's statements. He said, \"Never give in. Never,\nnever, never, never give in.\" That meant more to me in sustaining me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"than\nanything else that I came in contact with. He was hit by an automobile in 1937\non Fifth Avenue [New York, New York]. He stepped off and looked in the wrong\ndirection because he was used to traffic on the left. A cab going 35 miles an\nhour hit him, which was one hell of a blow. 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There's some of\nthat in Judaism that means a great deal to me, but I don't know whether it's\nprayer or what [unintelligible].\n\nLEVIN: It's a Psalm.\n\nALEXANDER: Yes, but on the other hand, I arranged through Michael Lomax to have\nthe bridge over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Chattahoochee [River], the old bridge, named for Hermi. We\nhad a ceremony out there. The wife of the president of Spelman [College] at that\ntime, Isabel Stewart, I asked her to read \"The Song of the Chattahoochee.\" She'd\nnever heard of it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She read in a way that she wasn't just talking about a river.\nShe was talking about a human life. That really got to me more than what the\nrabbi had to say. You know, \"Out of the hills of Habersham. . .\"\n\nLEVIN: I have heard of that. It's a beautiful metaphor for a life.\n\nALEXANDER: I'm a sentimentalist. 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Every now\nand then I feel like I've been a sucker, but if I had to do it over again in a\ndifferent time, different place, I would work ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hard at making a bundle and then\ngotten into all the civic stuff. But I was an idealist about architecture. I\nthought it could save the world. I was an idealist, mainly through Hermi, about\nrace relations. Race relations came when they came. If you didn't do it then,\nthere wasn't going to be. . . where would they be 10 or 15 years down the road?\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't regret having done it. I regret some of the ways it turned out, but I\ndon't regret it.\n\nLEVIN: I can understand the hopes that you, as part of the Civil Rights\nMovement, had for what could happen haven't materialized, and that that would be\nterrifically disappointing.\n\nALEXANDER: Two people, I think. . . one in particular that I worked for, I was\none of his chairman. 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There are going to be the mainstream Blacks that want to\nmove within the system, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but the [Louis] Farrakhan type, and others not as able\nas he is, are going to be heard from. It's going to be the same thing. You're an\n\"Uncle Tom\" if you go along with \"Whitey. . .\"\n\nLEVIN: . . .and work within the established system.\n\nALEXANDER: Yes.\n\nLEVIN: I want to ask you a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couple of your predictions of the future.\n\nALEXANDER: Since I won't be here, I'll be glad to make them.\n\nLEVIN: How long do you think you'll live?\n\nALEXANDER: My father lived to be 75. My mother died at 55. My Uncle Harry lived\nto be 92. My mother's sister lived to be 99 and five days, just died. 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If you were to be a mentor to them and tell them how to\nget into the power structure of Atlanta now, what would you advise them?\n\nALEXANDER: I wouldn't advise them to get into the power structure.\n\nLEVIN: What if they wanted to carry your values into the community?\n\nALEXANDER: You mean as far as who they should marry?\n\nLEVIN: No, as far as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your moral integrity, your social values, and want to\ncontinue your work with Civil Rights.\n\nALEXANDER: I don't really think I have to tell them. I think they grew up with\nHermi and with me and it's in them. I don't know how you pass it on. How did I\nget it from Hermi? 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It\nwas an anachronism that this country that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said they were the world's great\ndemocracy had this blemish. I brought that to the table. Hermi brought much more\npersonal feelings. She studied sociology. Her mother was a very open person,\nfree of prejudice. Her father was not. Her father was like my father. 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The other good thing they got is that none of them smoke.\n\nLEVIN: So they may live to your Uncle Harry's age.\n\nALEXANDER: Yes, but as to tell them what to do, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really don't think you can\ntell your children what to do.\n\nLEVIN: I think you're acknowledging that they reflect your values.\n\nALEXANDER: Yes, but that's from what we did and what we said.\n\nLEVIN: I'm also wondering how you would tell them how to do it. 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I would say to\nmyself, \"Look, I was over there getting shot at for 18 months and survived that.\nIf some punk wants to take a shot at me, well, I've been shot at.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The career\njeopardy was something else because I was dragging my partners into it. They\nsupported me most of the time. There's one time they didn't. Now, the guy that\nwe couldn't hire is mayor of Charlotte [North Carolina] and is now running for\nsenator of North Carolina against Jesse Helms. Anyhow, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I sort of lost my train\nof thought now.\n\nLEVIN: I'm aware of your time.\n\nALEXANDER: I've got to be over to Piedmont Hospital in time to put on a bathing\nsuit for 4:30, so I've still got a few minutes.\n\nLEVIN: Maybe my final question needs to be, what haven't I asked you that I need\nto ask you? 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I don't know whether I've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ever found that guy. I'm\nnot even sure I want to find him. I have a feeling that he's not as strong, he's\nnot as nice, he's not as either what I like to think I am, or what the community\nin general seems to feel. I think that probably everybody's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/transcript/21956/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"secret concern is,\n\"Am I who I think I am?\" I don't think I am. I've enjoyed this. I haven't been\nabsolutely completely open, but I've tried to answer your questions. I think\nyou're a good interviewer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=4380.0,4410.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/annotation_set/338","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/annotation_set/338/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHerbert Carl Millkey, Jr. (1942-1988), a native of Savannah, Georgia, was an architect practicing in Atlanta. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, and was cofounder (with Tarlee W. Brown) of the architectural firm of Millkey \u0026amp; Brown. Millkey \u0026amp; Brown was the first interracial architectural partnership in Atlanta. 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I accept Judaism as a religion from my viewpoint and my exposure to it as being the most rational of the religions I know anything about. Therefore, it’s easier for me to accept. As my life expectancy grows shorter, I don’t see it as a comfort particularly. I sometimes regret that I don’t find more of that.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3125.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/index/47398/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"belief","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Catholicism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"religion","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"theology","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3125.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/index/47398/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Car crash that killed Hermione","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3360.0,3817.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/index/47398/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ever since I was in that wreck, I lost my fear of dying... I was not able to go to Hermi’s funeral because I was in the hospital. In fact, I was operated on during the funeral. I did ask Rabbi [Alvin] Sugarman to come by and read some of the service to me because I needed a closure. I needed to accept the fact of Hermi’s death.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3360.0,3817.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/index/47398/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"automobile accidents","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"death","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"drunk driving","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fear of death","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hermione Weil Alexander","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Isabel Carter Johnston Stewart","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"poetry","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi Alvin M. 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I think they grew up with Hermi and with me and it’s in them. I don’t know how you pass it on. How did I get it from Hermi? I had some of it. When I came back from the war, I looked around and I thought, “What the Constitution [of the United States] says is just a bunch of hypocrisy until the Blacks have equality with the whites.”","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3817.0,4407.32735"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067/index/47398/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"equality","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"future","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life expectancy","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"morals","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"United States Constitution","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"values","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32310/file/101067#t=3817.0,4407.32735"}]}]}]}