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She graduated from A.G. Parrish High School in 1966 and completed her college education at Troy State University in Troy, Alabama. She had three children: Rick, Kelly, and Jackson. Joanie was one of the last remaining congregants at Temple Mishkan Israel in Selma until her death in 2021 after a battle with cancer.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn her interview, Joanie details how her family ended up in Selma, Alabama. She discusses growing up Jewish in a small community that did not have many Jews. She recalls her experiences going to synagogue in both Selma and Montgomery as a child and celebrating the holidays with her family. Joanie describes going away to college and making many female Jewish friends for the first time in her life. She reflects on her memories of Jim Crow laws, the civil rights era in Selma, and the presence of black domestic workers in her home. She talks about her sixteenth birthday party and socialization during her teenage years. Joanie mentions her family’s candy business in Selma, American Candy Company. She discusses raising her children with a strong Jewish identity. Joanie concludes her interview by reflecting on how Selma has changed as a community since her youth and why some people have moved back while others have moved away.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29051"]}},{"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"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Looney, Joanie Gibian, 1948-2021 (personal name)","Berman, Sandra (personal name)","Baylinson, David A. 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Joanie was one of the last remaining congregants at Temple Mishkan Israel in Selma until her death in 2021 after a battle with cancer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn her interview, Joanie details how her family ended up in Selma, Alabama. She discusses growing up Jewish in a small community that did not have many Jews. She recalls her experiences going to synagogue in both Selma and Montgomery as a child and celebrating the holidays with her family. Joanie describes going away to college and making many female Jewish friends for the first time in her life. She reflects on her memories of Jim Crow laws, the civil rights era in Selma, and the presence of black domestic workers in her home. She talks about her sixteenth birthday party and socialization during her teenage years. Joanie mentions her family\u0026rsquo;s candy business in Selma, American Candy Company. She discusses raising her children with a strong Jewish identity. Joanie concludes her interview by reflecting on how Selma has changed as a community since her youth and why some people have moved back while others have moved away.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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[Today is January 24] 2012, and I am with Joanie Gibian Looney . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . right . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . who has agreed to participate in the Esther and Herbert Taylor\nOral History Project of the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum.\nI am in Selma, Alabama. I am Sandra Berman. I'm the archivist with the museum,\nand I'd like to thank you for agreeing to participate in our project.\n\nLOONEY: You're welcome.\n\nBERMAN: Thank you. I met your parents.\n\nLOONEY: Right.\n\nBERMAN: I know a little bit about why your family came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here, but if you would\nlike to go back and in your own words talk a little bit about how your family\nended up in Selma.\n\nLOONEY: I really don't know the answer to that. I know they've been here for a\nlong time. I know my grandmother was from Texas and married someone from here,\nand that's how she ended up [here]. I'm not exactly sure how his family ended up here.\n\nBERMAN: And when were you born?\n\nLOONEY: 1948.\n\nBERMAN: Your family has been here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for a very long time.\n\nLOONEY: Right.\n\nBERMAN: Have you felt, always, just a part of the fabric of the whole community?\n\nLOONEY: Sure. I have.\n\nBERMAN: Where did you go to school?\n\nLOONEY: To college?\n\nBERMAN: No. Public school?\n\nLOONEY: Oh, to public schools. I went to elementary school, junior high, and\nhigh school. Graduated in 1966 from [A.G.] Parrish High School, which is now\nSelma High School.\n\nBERMAN: And growing up Jewish in a small . . . in a community where there were\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not that many Jews . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . right . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . did you ever feel that you were an outsider?\n\nLOONEY: Not really. I went . . . most of my friends were not Jewish and . . .\nbut I went to bible school with them in the summertime, and sang in their\nchoirs, and they came here for things, and I never felt different growing up. I\nmight a little more now than I did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then.\n\nBERMAN: Were your parents concerned about not having a lot of outlets for Jewish identity?\n\nDid they send you to Jewish summer camp?\n\nLOONEY: No. I went to camp, but not to Jewish camps. I don't think that was a\nbig concern.\n\nBERMAN: What about dating? Were they concerned who you would date?\n\nLOONEY: Yes, but there wasn't a whole lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"choice.\n\nBERMAN: Did you go to any of the other cities to try to meet Jewish youth?\n\nLOONEY: We went to . . . Montgomery [Alabama] was the only place. There was a\nJewish youth group, I guess. I don't know that it had any formal name. And I\nwent over a couple of times, and spent weekends, and there were parties, and\nthat sort of thing.\n\nBERMAN: Did you ever attend services at Temple Beth Or, did you go over there?\n\nLOONEY: Sure, because we had family there.\n\nBERMAN: Do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember Rabbi Baylinson?\n\nLOONEY: Sure.\n\nBERMAN: What can you remember about him?\n\nLOONEY: He was just an easy person to talk to and discuss things with. When I'd\nspend the weekends over there, we'd go to Sunday school . . . and social things\nwith him, too, not just religious things.\n\nBERMAN: And who was the rabbi here when you were growing up?\n\nLOONEY: The one I remember was Rabbi Lubasch.\n\nBERMAN: What was he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like?\n\nLOONEY: He was nice, and . . . I don't remember a whole lot about him.\n\nBERMAN: How important has the synagogue [Temple Mishkan Israel] been in your . .\n. growing up?\n\nLOONEY: I guess, growing up, it was nice to have people that you could relate to\non a more religious basis, and we came to Sunday school every Sunday, and I\ncan't say that we went to Friday night services ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but we had . . . we were\nconfirmed, and we had a nice group.\n\nBERMAN: What about the holidays? Were you . . . did you celebrate them in your\nhome, like Sabbath meals or Passover services?\n\nLOONEY: Not in the home, no. We had Passover here because there were just so few\nof us that we had a Passover service at the temple in this room.\n\nBERMAN: Can you describe it?\n\nLOONEY: Oh, it was fun. We all enjoyed it, and it was just nice to be with everyone.\n\nBERMAN: Any specific memories of a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"particular seder, or year?\n\nLOONEY: Not a particular one. And I have memories of doing Purim parties here,\ntoo, and that was fun, and dressing up like Queen Esther, that was fun.\n\nBERMAN: That's great. And the sukkah, was there a sukkah here?\n\nLOONEY: Oh, we did.\n\nBERMAN: How would you describe the closeness within the Jewish community?\n\nLOONEY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think everybody feels like family. Everybody . . . if we're not\nactually kin, we just feel like family.\n\nBERMAN: And did you go away to go to college?\n\nLOONEY: I did.\n\nBERMAN: Where did you go?\n\nLOONEY: I went to several. My freshman year I went to Stephens College in\nMissouri, and that was probably my first experience being around a lot of Jewish\nkids. My roommate was Jewish, and I can sort of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember not wanting to ask her,\nbut wondering, and I don't remember exactly how we figured out that we were both\nJewish, but there were a lot of Jewish girls. That was probably my biggest . . .\nfriendships with Jewish girls.\n\nBERMAN: Was that enjoyable for you?\n\nLOONEY: Yes, it was.\n\nBERMAN: And where did you go after Stephens?\n\nLOONEY: I transferred to Louisiana State University and stayed there a year, and\nI was . . . there was somebody I was trying to get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back to Alabama. And then I\ngraduated from Troy State in Troy, Alabama.\n\nBERMAN: And why did you come back to Selma?\n\nLOONEY: So I could get married.\n\nBERMAN: Was the individual . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . yes . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . that you married living here? Any thought about not coming back?\n\nLOONEY: No, not really.\n\nBERMAN: What was your . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . I guess I always wanted to come back. Now I'm not sure I always\nwant to stay, but I did always want to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come back.\n\nBERMAN: What was your degree in?\n\nLOONEY: Elementary Education.\n\nBERMAN: Did you teach here?\n\nLOONEY: I did, for one year.\n\nBERMAN: And no thoughts about [a] bigger city after college?\n\nLOONEY: Actually, in . . . my children were . . . I had two in college at the\ntime, and my son was starting high school. We moved to Richmond, Virginia and\nlived there for four years. Then . . . and my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"son, my older son, married\nsomebody from Virginia, so I still get to go visit. But then I moved back here.\n\nBERMAN: And are you working here now?\n\nLOONEY: I work part time at the library.\n\nBERMAN: How do you . . . what are your recollections of the civil rights era\nhere in Selma?\n\nLOONEY: I was in high school, and I just remember a lot of talk, and I remember\nbeing in school and them telling us not to go ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"downtown after school, to go\nstraight home. I think everybody was concerned about our safety.\n\nBERMAN: Did you have black help in the home?\n\nLOONEY: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Did they still come to work during that time period?\n\nLOONEY: As far as I remember, they did.\n\nBERMAN: Was there anyone in particular you were close to that had worked in the home?\n\nLOONEY: We had a maid named Thelma, who was there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"through my high school days,\nand she actually . . . once I moved back here with small children, she helped me\nsome. Not on a regular basis, but she loved to come to my house and help me.\n\nBERMAN: What was her last name?\n\nLOONEY: Goldsby [sp].\n\nBERMAN: And have you read The Help?\n\nLOONEY: I have.\n\nBERMAN: How do you feel about that book? Do you think it was realistic?\n\nLOONEY: I think in a lot of ways it was. It did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seem . . . I don't think I knew\npeople as mean-spirited as some of those girls were. If we were, I was oblivious\nto it. And certainly nobody in my family or nobody I knew would have acted that\nway. Part of it was status quo. There were certain things that, I guess, we just\nnever thought twice about. If we took the maid home in the afternoons, they rode\nin the back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seat, and I think they did that and it wasn't a . . . I know that\nwhen Thelma started working for me, I said, \"Sit in the front seat,\" and she\ndid. But she wouldn't have done that earlier.\n\nBERMAN: When did it all start to change, the relationship?\n\nLOONEY: The relationship between me and Thelma?\n\nBERMAN: And just . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . or between everybody . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . between everybody.\n\nLOONEY: I was probably gone when it started changing because I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"left in [19]66. I\njust think it was slowly beginning then, and by the time I came back, things\nwere different.\n\nBERMAN: Did you and your parents . . . you were gone . . . did they talk about\nit much? Did they talk about the way Selma was being depicted in the newspapers\nand the press?\n\nLOONEY: Not really.\n\nBERMAN: Do you . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . not that I remember . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . do you have any thoughts about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that?\n\nLOONEY: No. I think I was glad that . . . it was time that changes were being\nmade. But I don't think we were outspoken about it because you just didn't know\nwhat the person sitting next to you was thinking, and you kind of hated to muddy\nthe waters.\n\nBERMAN: Did you know if you had any friends whose parents were in the White\nCitizen Councils or anything like that?\n\nLOONEY: No, I don't think I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did. I'm sure that I had classmates who did, but not friends.\n\nBERMAN: Was it a time where, like you just said, you didn't want to muddy the\nwaters so . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . right . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . you kind of kept those opinions to yourself? Some of your own opinions?\n\nLOONEY: Probably.\n\nBERMAN: During that time period, before you left, was there a particular\nincident that was memorable that you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"recall?\n\nLOONEY: As far as the . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . civil rights . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . civil rights thing? I would . . . no, I really can't . . . I\nreally don't think of anything in particular.\n\nBERMAN: What about a really good memory? A perfect day that you recall from\ngrowing up here in Selma?\n\nLOONEY: I think I'll always remember my surprise sixteenth birthday party. [It]\ntotally took me by ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"surprise. And that was just a fun day, it was . . . my\nbirthday's [at] the end of May, the end of school. I took my last exam, and had\na surprise . . . got my driver's license . . . had a surprise birthday party\nwith one of my best friends whose birthday's right after mine.\n\nBERMAN: Did you belong . . . what did you do for socialization?\n\nLOONEY: Went to the movies, went . . . in the fall, football. I was a high\nschool cheerleader, and that was fun. 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We've been friends since we were born, and we're\nstill ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends. But there are a lot of new people, and everybody, I think, is\naccepting of everybody.\n\nBERMAN: Why did your other friends move back? That's interesting to me, because\nso many other people . . .\n\nLOONEY: . . . right . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . have moved away.\n\nLOONEY: I think we just had the perfect childhood, and it meant a lot to\neverybody to come back. And although my children haven't come back, a lot of my\nfriend's children have come back.\n\nBERMAN: Are there jobs and job ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"opportunities here?\n\nLOONEY: There's some, not as many as there used to be, but the ones who've come\nback have found jobs and seem to be happy. There seems to be an up-and-coming\nyoung crowd who's coming back, and they have jobs and a social life.\n\nBERMAN: Is there any hope that more Jewish families or young people will come\nback to Selma?\n\nLOONEY: I would doubt ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. I don't think so.\n\nBERMAN: It was such a good life for you, a perfect life. Do you wish that you\ncould tell other young Jewish families that small town life can be good?\n\nLOONEY: Oh, sure. It can be, but that's not true just for Jewish people, it's everywhere.\n\nBERMAN: Right.\n\nLOONEY: Small towns. 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I'm not sure how we're going to accomplish that, just fund-wise.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/transcript/41696/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay. Is there anything I haven't touched upon that you'd like to talk about?\n\nLOONEY: I think you've just about covered it all.\n\nBERMAN: Okay, then. I appreciate it.\n\nLOONEY: Thank you.\n\nBERMAN: Thank you very much.\n\nLOONEY: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=1050.0,1080.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJoan “Joanie” Gibian Looney was born in Selma, Alabama on May 29, 1948 to Richard and Betty Rose Leva Gibian. She graduated from A.G. Parrish High School in 1966 and completed her college education at Troy State University in Troy, Alabama. She had three children: Rick, Kelly, and Jackson. Joanie was one of the last remaining congregants at Temple Mishkan Israel in Selma until her death in 2021 after a battle with cancer.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Foundation was founded in 1983 and is administered by the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. The Foundation supports the Oral History Project at the Breman Museum in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust. This interview of Joanie Gibian Looney is one of those transcripts.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSelma is a small city and county seat of Dallas County, Alabama, United States. Selma is famous for its role in the civil rights movement during the 1960s, particularly in the context of the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSandra Katz \"Sandy\" Berman is an American archivist. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she was the founding archivist of the Cleveland Jewish Archives. She later moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and in 1985 became the founding archivist of the Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. During her 28-year tenure at the Breman, she co-curated multiple exhibitions and expanded the scope of the museum to include collections from Jewish communities throughout Georgia and surrounding states. She is the interviewer for many of the oral histories that can be found in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSelma High School is a public secondary school in Selma, Alabama. It is the only public high school in the Selma City School System. The school was formed in 1970 in response to court-ordered integration, merging the former white A.G. Parrish High School and the former black R.B. Hudson High School. As of April 2011, Selma High School only had five white students and enrollment had shrunk from approximately 1,500 to below 1,000.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMontgomery is the capital city of the state of Alabama and the seat of Montgomery County. It is the second-most populous city in Alabama. The city was a major center of the civil rights movement.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA Reform congregation in Montgomery, Alabama. The congregation was formally formed in 1852 and was known as “Kahl Montgomery.” In 1862, they completed a temple in downtown Montgomery and later changed the name to Temple Beth Or [Hebrew: House of Light]. It is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places and still stands today, serving as a church. Due to the increasing Jewish population, a new house of worship was built in 1902 and again in 1961, which is the location of Temple Beth Or today. As of 2022, the current leader of the congregation is Rabbi Scott Looper.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi David A. Baylinson (b. 1929) served Temple Beth Or in Montgomery, Alabama from 1965 until his retirement in 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew school can be either the Jewish equivalent of Sunday school (an educational regimen separate from secular education, focusing on topics of Jewish history and learning the Hebrew language), or a primary, secondary, or college level educational institution where some or all of the classes are taught in Hebrew.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86275/file/174547/annotation_set/978/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLothar Lubasch (1896-1976) was the last permanent rabbi of Temple Mishkan Israel in Selma, Alabama. 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