{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/qj77s7jj34/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Weil, Alan"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2011-03-29 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAlan Weil interviewed by Sandra Berman on March 29, 2011 in Montgomery, Alabama. \u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eAlan Weil was raised in Montgomery, Alabama, and his family has lived in Montgomery for several generations.  His paternal and maternal grandfathers each owned retail stores in Montgomery.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan’s paternal grandfather, Abe Weil, died when Alan’s father, Sigmund Weil, was only nine years old.  As a young adult, Alan’s father worked for Nathan Scheuer, owner of a wholesale dry goods business called Scheuer Brothers.  He later fell in love with and married Edith Scheuer, Nathan’s daughter.  He left Scheuer Brothers and went into business with his brother, Henry Weil, opening a store in downtown Montgomery in 1924.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe store started out carrying a wide range of merchandise, like a small department store, and later became a specialty store with more high fashion clothing catering to men and boys.  Alan came into the business in 1950 and learned a lot about the retail business from his father and uncle.  They took many buying trips to New York, first by train and later by plane.  Alan eventually increased the business to include 13 stores throughout the South.  Alan’s son, a Certified Public Accountant who worked in that field when he graduated from college, later joined Alan in the retail business.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan grew up in east Montgomery, in the Cloverdale area.  It was not a Jewish neighborhood, and although he had a few Jewish friends, most of his friends were not Jewish.  He began dating his wife, Nellie Cobb, in his senior year of high school, and they both went to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.  He had never experienced antisemitism growing up, until an incident while they were at college.  Nellie, who was not Jewish, pledged for a sorority and was told she could not be accepted as long she was dating Alan, because he was Jewish.  She continued dating Alan and was accepted into the sorority.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Civil Rights Era, the situation in Montgomery was uneasy.  The store customers were about 90 percent black, and Alan had a lot of black friends.  Alan felt that his family was color blind, and they treated the blacks the same as they treated the whites.  A black woman hired by Alan ended up working with him until he retired.  She continued to work for Alan’s son, who took over the running of the stores, as a manager of one of the stores. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan is fond of Montgomery and has enjoyed living there.  Montgomery has been good to him, he has been accepted for who he is, and he still has a lot of good friends there.  He misses the smaller community that Montgomery used to be, where everyone seemed to know everyone by first name.  Montgomery has gotten bigger, but the Jewish community has gotten smaller and smaller.  Alan sees the time in the near future when the various denominations will need to join together into one congregation and a cohesive group.    \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan had several close Jewish friends growing up.  As a young adult, he participated in the courting weekends that were popular in the South, such as Falcon, Jubilee, Ballyhoo, and Holly Days, where Jewish boys and girls would come together to meet, date, and socialize.  As an adult, he was a member of the now-defunct Standard Club, a social organization for Jews where they could congregate and socialize.  When he was growing up and later as an adult with children of his own, the family had Friday night Sabbath dinner at his grandmother’s house.  After her death, Alan’s parents and his aunt and uncle traded off having it at their home. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main thing that Alan misses is not knowing everybody in the community.  At the store in Montgomery, his son makes a point of getting to know his customers by first name.  Although Alan enjoys stopping in at the store, he loves retirement.  He is happy to visit his daughters who live in Mississippi and California when he wants and is delighted to be a great grandfather. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eAlan discusses some background on his family’s history in Montgomery, Alabama, as far back as his grandparents.  He focuses on the retail store livelihoods of both his paternal and maternal grandfathers.  The interview does not describe how or why his family moved to Montgomery or when they first came to the United States.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan talks about the store that his father, Sigmund Weil, opened with his brother, Henry, in 1924 in downtown Montgomery.  He describes how that store increased into a group of 13 stores throughout the South, which are now owned by Alan’s son, Alan Weil, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan describes his childhood growing up in Montgomery, including his neighborhood, where he went to school, dating his future wife, the lack of antisemitism, and the general sense of community.  He talks about the black domestic help he and his wife had in their home and how much a part of the family they came to be. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan describes his experiences during the years of the Civil Rights Movement, the hiring of blacks in his stores, and the high percentage of black customers who frequented the stores.  He was taught to treat others as he would want to be treated himself, and that’s how he treated his customers and his employees.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan talks about why he loves Montgomery, although he misses the days when it was smaller and everyone seemed to know everyone by first name.  He fondly describes his experiences at the now-defunct Standard Club, a social club where Jews congregated and socialized.  He also talks about the courting weekends that were common in the South, such as Falcon, Ballyhoo, Jubilee, and Holly Days, where Jewish young adults went to meet, date, and socialize.  His description of his Jewish life includes Friday night Sabbath dinners, going to Temple Beth Or afterward for the Friday night service, Sunday school, and his family’s volunteer involvement with the Temple. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the size of Montgomery has grown, the size of the Jewish population has shrunk significantly.  Alan expresses his thoughts on the need for the various denominations – Sephardic, Reform, and Conservative – to combine into a cohesive group, because the Jewish population is too small to support separate congregations.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28402"]}},{"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":["Alan Weil (personal name)","A Js Clothing (corporate name)","The Selma to Montgomery March (named event)","World War I (named event)","The Civil Rights Era (named event)","Antisemitism  (topical term)","Montgomery, Alabama (geographic term)","The Standard Club (corporate name)","Phi Beta Kappa Society  (corporate name)","Rabbi Eugene Blachschleger  (personal name)","Rabbi David A. 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store, and later became a specialty store with more high fashion clothing catering to men and boys.  Alan came into the business in 1950 and learned a lot about the retail business from his father and uncle.  They took many buying trips to New York, first by train and later by plane.  Alan eventually increased the business to include 13 stores throughout the South.  Alan’s son, a Certified Public Accountant who worked in that field when he graduated from college, later joined Alan in the retail business.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan grew up in east Montgomery, in the Cloverdale area.  It was not a Jewish neighborhood, and although he had a few Jewish friends, most of his friends were not Jewish.  He began dating his wife, Nellie Cobb, in his senior year of high school, and they both went to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.  He had never experienced antisemitism growing up, until an incident while they were at college.  Nellie, who was not Jewish, pledged for a sorority and was told she could not be accepted as long she was dating Alan, because he was Jewish.  She continued dating Alan and was accepted into the sorority.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Civil Rights Era, the situation in Montgomery was uneasy.  The store customers were about 90 percent black, and Alan had a lot of black friends.  Alan felt that his family was color blind, and they treated the blacks the same as they treated the whites.  A black woman hired by Alan ended up working with him until he retired.  She continued to work for Alan’s son, who took over the running of the stores, as a manager of one of the stores. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan is fond of Montgomery and has enjoyed living there.  Montgomery has been good to him, he has been accepted for who he is, and he still has a lot of good friends there.  He misses the smaller community that Montgomery used to be, where everyone seemed to know everyone by first name.  Montgomery has gotten bigger, but the Jewish community has gotten smaller and smaller.  Alan sees the time in the near future when the various denominations will need to join together into one congregation and a cohesive group.    \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan had several close Jewish friends growing up.  As a young adult, he participated in the courting weekends that were popular in the South, such as Falcon, Jubilee, Ballyhoo, and Holly Days, where Jewish boys and girls would come together to meet, date, and socialize.  As an adult, he was a member of the now-defunct Standard Club, a social organization for Jews where they could congregate and socialize.  When he was growing up and later as an adult with children of his own, the family had Friday night Sabbath dinner at his grandmother’s house.  After her death, Alan’s parents and his aunt and uncle traded off having it at their home. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main thing that Alan misses is not knowing everybody in the community.  At the store in Montgomery, his son makes a point of getting to know his customers by first name.  Although Alan enjoys stopping in at the store, he loves retirement.  He is happy to visit his daughters who live in Mississippi and California when he wants and is delighted to be a great grandfather. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlan discusses some background on his family’s history in Montgomery, Alabama, as far back as his grandparents.  He focuses on the retail store livelihoods of both his paternal and maternal grandfathers.  The interview does not describe how or why his family moved to Montgomery or when they first came to the United States.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan talks about the store that his father, Sigmund Weil, opened with his brother, Henry, in 1924 in downtown Montgomery.  He describes how that store increased into a group of 13 stores throughout the South, which are now owned by Alan’s son, Alan Weil, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan describes his childhood growing up in Montgomery, including his neighborhood, where he went to school, dating his future wife, the lack of antisemitism, and the general sense of community.  He talks about the black domestic help he and his wife had in their home and how much a part of the family they came to be. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan describes his experiences during the years of the Civil Rights Movement, the hiring of blacks in his stores, and the high percentage of black customers who frequented the stores.  He was taught to treat others as he would want to be treated himself, and that’s how he treated his customers and his employees.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan talks about why he loves Montgomery, although he misses the days when it was smaller and everyone seemed to know everyone by first name.  He fondly describes his experiences at the now-defunct Standard Club, a social club where Jews congregated and socialized.  He also talks about the courting weekends that were common in the South, such as Falcon, Ballyhoo, Jubilee, and Holly Days, where Jewish young adults went to meet, date, and socialize.  His description of his Jewish life includes Friday night Sabbath dinners, going to Temple Beth Or afterward for the Friday night service, Sunday school, and his family’s volunteer involvement with the Temple. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the size of Montgomery has grown, the size of the Jewish population has shrunk significantly.  Alan expresses his thoughts on the need for the various denominations – Sephardic, Reform, and Conservative – to combine into a cohesive group, because the Jewish population is too small to support separate congregations.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I am so pleased\nthat you agreed to be interviewed. I would like to begin by asking you to tell\nme a little bit about your own background, when you were born, and how your\nfamily ended up in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Montgomery.\n\nWEIL: My family lived in Montgomery all of my life. My grandfather, Abe\n[Abraham] Weil, originally had a store of some sort . . . I think it was\nwholesale dry goods, maybe . . . in Montgomery, and he died when my father was\nnine years old. My father went through public school here [and] went on to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Auburn [University--Auburn, Alabama] right about the time of the First World\nWar. I think he spent possibly one year at Auburn and then came back to\nMontgomery and went to work for my mother's father, who was in the wholesale dry\ngoods business. It was called 'Scheuer Brothers,' which was down on Commerce Street.\n\nBERMAN: Can you tell me their names, all of these individuals' names?\n\nWEIL: My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandfather on my mother's side was Nathan Scheuer, and he was married\nto Ettie Scheuer, who originally came from . . . Let me think. I'll think of it\nin a minute. [Note: Eufaula, Alabama.] My grandfather was Abe Weil, who died\nwhen my dad was about nine years old. He was one of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"six children. My\ngrandmother's name was Pauline [Steiner] Weil, and they lived on South Court\nStreet. My dad, after graduating from school, went to work for Scheuer Brothers\nin the wholesale business.\n\nBERMAN: His name?\n\nWEIL: My father's name was Sigmund Weil, who incidentally was president of the\nTemple [Temple Beth Or] here at one time. In fact, I'm the only one who never\nwas president of the Temple in my family, but I was on the board [of directors]\nfor several ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years. My son is now past president of the Temple here, too. My dad\nworked for my grandfather Scheuer for many years. Then he fell in love with his\nwife, who was named Edith, and they married. He left my grandfather and went\ninto business with his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brother, Henry Weil. They opened a store on Monroe Street\nin October of 1924. Would you believe the stores is still there today and\nprobably the only retail store in downtown Montgomery.\n\nBERMAN: Do you still own the store?\n\nWEIL: I don't own it. My son does.\n\nBERMAN: That's fantastic.\n\nWEIL: We went through a number of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"changes from what the store was originally. It\nwas a general type of store, selling everything from thread to rubber boots to\nouterwear. You name it, we sold it. It was a junior type of department store.\nWhen I came into the operation in 1950, of course I thought I knew more about\nthe retail business than anybody in the world. I found ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out real quickly I didn't\nknow anything. To make a long story short, my uncle and my dad taught me an\nawful lot. [They] took me to market with them. I never will forget getting on\nthe train here, the Crescent Limited, in the morning about five o'clock,\nspending the whole day and the night, getting up the next morning as we pulled\ninto Pennsylvania Station in New York. 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I think\nthe main thing they taught me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was to treat people the way I would like to be\ntreated, and that's the way we built our business. We have fifth and sixth\ngenerations still coming into our store, which is quite unusual [in] this day\nand time. We went from a general type of department store to a specialty type\nstore catering to men and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boys, doing high fashion young men type of business.\nIt just made it a lot simpler. I started with the one store. Over a period of\nyears I increased to 13 stores, the first store being in Uniontown, Alabama,\nwhich was owned by a friend of my father's and mine, a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man by the name of Abe\nCohen. Abe had been very ill and was in the hospital here, and we had both given\nhim blood. We became very close. We did a little buying together. One day, he\ncalled me. He said, \"Would you like to buy my store?\" He said, \"Juanita,\" who\nwas his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wife, \"and I would like to retire, because we don't really have any time\nto spend with each other.\" At that time, my father and mother were on a trip out\nof the country somewhere. I called him, and I said, \"Dad, I think you better\ncome on home. I think we're getting ready to buy a store.\" He said, \"What?\", and\nI said, \"Yes. Abe wants to sell the store, and I think we need to go down there\nand talk to him.\" They came home, and my dad and I went down ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there. It was the\nfirst time I had ever been in the store. I walked in the store and looked\naround. I couldn't believe what I saw, because Uniontown was a town of about\n1800 people, and he had enough merchandise in there to sell for the next 22\nyears. To make a long story short, he decided not retire, but he would take six\nmonths a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"year off if I would come down there and run the store. I was the only\nperson he trusted, so that was the deal. I would go down there, and when they\nwere gone I would run the store. He was probably gone maybe two months a year,\nbut he couldn't stay away. He loved it, and he couldn't stay away from it. That\nwas a successful operation. There was a young man that had started working for\nAbe when he was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in high school, a young guy by the name of Russell Stockman.\nRussell came back from [military] service and went to work in the store. Russell\nand I decided maybe we ought to try to expand out a little bit, and, in the\nmeantime, Abe did retire. Russell ran that store, and I went down there every\nweek and spent a day down there. One day he called me and said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Alan, I think\nwe need to open a store in Linden [Alabama].\" I said, \"I'll come on down, and\nwe'll look at it.\" We went down, and we looked at Linden. We opened a store in\nLinden, and then we went from Linden to Greensboro [Alabama], and from\nGreensboro we went to York [Alabama], and from York we went to Macon,\nMississippi. To make a long story short, we ended up with 13 stores. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"spent my\nevery Wednesday on the road. I would go to five stores one week and six stores\nthe next week. I tried to keep my finger in the pie [stay involved] and know\nwhat was happening where. Those were before we went on computer. Then later on\nmy son, who is a CPA [Certified Public Accountant], decided first that he wanted\nto practice accounting and then he worked for an accountant, a CPA, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\nBirmingham [Alabama]. His wife at that time was in nursing school at UAB\n[University of Alabama at Birmingham]. When she graduated, they moved back to\nMontgomery, and then he went to work for a CPA in Montgomery. He and I have\nalways been very, very close, as has the rest of my family. We always went to\nlunch on Wednesdays, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and one day we were at lunch, and he said, \"Dad, you know\nwhat? I decided I want to go into retail business.\" That was the happiest day of\nmy life.\n\nBERMAN: It's amazing, because you are in the true minority. Most of that next\ngeneration didn't go back into the business. How many stores are left?\n\nWEIL: There are still 13.\n\nBERMAN: Still 13.\n\nWEIL: Still 13.\n\nBERMAN: They are called what?\n\nWEIL: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In Montgomery, we're called Weil's [Clothing]. There are three stores in\nMontgomery. Originally, in west Alabama, they were called the Economy Stores,\nbut if we changed our operation from a general type store to a fashion business,\nwe didn't think the name suited. We changed the stores in west Alabama, and\nthey're called A J's. Somebody said, \"How did you come up with the name A J's\".\nI said, \"Alan Junior.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It worked, and that's what they're called. He's still\nrunning the stores. There is a young man who lives in Greensboro that's working\nwith him like Russell worked with me, and he has a young man in Birmingham\nthat's working with him. They more or less take care of the physical running of\nthe stores. He does all the buying and stays on the computer and stays in touch\nwith everything that is happening ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down there by way of the computer and the\ntelephone. They're still running. Right now retail is tough, and his business is\ntough, but he can handle it. They're keeping their heads above the water.\n\nBERMAN: That's good. I want to get back into your childhood a little bit. What\nkind of neighborhood did you grow up in?\n\nWEIL: I grew up in basically east Montgomery. It ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was early on. It was in the\nCloverdale area. Early on, my parents bought a house on Glen Grattan [Drive],\nand that's where I lived most of my life. I went to grammar school at\nCloverdale, and then also junior high at Cloverdale, and then high school I went\nto Sidney Lanier. I was involved in athletics at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lanier, and that's where I met\nmy wife. She was a cheerleader. We started dating my senior year. When I\ngraduated, I went to the university, and she went to the university.\n\nBERMAN: The University of Alabama [Tuscaloosa, AL]?\n\nWEIL: Yes. I was a fair student, and she was an excellent student. She was [a\nmember of the] Phi Beta Kappa [Society], ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everything.\n\nBERMAN: Your wife's name before we forget.\n\nWEIL: My wife's name was Nellie. Her maiden name was Cobb. C-O-B-B. She was not\nJewish, but she ended up being more Jewish than I am. She served 18 years on the\nBoard of Education here in Montgomery. She was also the president of the Alabama\nSchool Boards Association [Alabama Association of School Boards], as well as the\nNational School Boards ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Association. She was quite an outstanding person.\n\nBERMAN: Was your neighborhood close to the Temple? Was it a Jewish neighborhood?\n\nWEIL: No, it was not a Jewish neighborhood. I had many friends in Montgomery,\nbut I had one or two friends who were Jewish. Mostly I ran around with people\nwho were non-Jewish. They didn't know the difference between a Jew or a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gentile.\nIt was just, if you ran around in a neighborhood, everybody liked each other.\nEverything was fine. I never encountered any antisemitism in Montgomery my\nyounger years. The first time I ever ran into antisemitism was when my wife\npledged a sorority at the University of Alabama, and the president of her\nsorority told ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her she would have to stop dating me because I was Jewish. That\nwas the first time I ever ran into anything like that. She finally told them\nthey could make up their mind whether they wanted her to stay in the sorority or\nnot, but she wasn't going to stop dating me, and she didn't. The particular\ngirl, we tried to befriend her, but I don't think she ever cared for me. She\ngraduated, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we never had any other trouble after that. I have never run into\nany real antisemitism in Montgomery.\n\nBERMAN: Was the Temple an important part of your growing up?\n\nWEIL: It was part of my growing up because my grandmother and my father and my\nuncle were very involved with the Temple. When I was younger, it didn't really\nmean that much to me. I went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Temple every Friday night because on Friday\nnights we ate supper with my grandmother and then went to Temple. I went to\nTemple . . . I went to Sunday school and then every Sunday after Sunday school I\nwalked from the Temple to my grandmother's house and I had Sunday dinner with my\ngrandmother. Temple was an important part of my life as we grew up. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's still\nan important part of my life today.\n\nBERMAN: Any specific recollections about some of the rabbis who have . . . ?\n\nWEIL: I go all the way back to Dr. Erenwright, which a lot of people don't\nremember, but he was a friend of my grandmother. When I was about eight years\nold I went to a camp that he ran up in Wisconsin ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where I really got to now 'Doc'\nand Mrs. Erenwright well. They always sort of favored me because I was from\nMontgomery. All the rest of the rabbis that I remember . . . Rabbi [Eugene]\nBlachschleger and my parents were very close friends. They used to . . .\n\nBERMAN: What was he like?\n\nWEIL: He was a great guy. Sweet, nice, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friendly. His wife was lovely. He and my\nfolks played poker together. They had a poker crowd. The funny part about him .\n. . he used to laugh about it . . . when he first came to Montgomery, he told\nhis wife . . . his wife's name was Bernice . . . he said, \"Bernice, we have a\npoor child in our Sunday school class. His parents can't afford shoes. He comes\nto class ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"barefooted.\" That was me because I hated to wear shoes. He laughed\nabout that with me for years and years and years. Of course, [Rabbi] David\nBaylinson was a very close friend of mine and my wife's.\n\nBERMAN: We have interviewed him.\n\nWEIL: He was in Montgomery over the weekend, and I was thrilled to see David and\nJanice. They are just wonderful, wonderful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people.\n\nBERMAN: You never felt like an outsider because of your religion.\n\nWEIL: No.\n\nBERMAN: That's what we hear from most people here.\n\nWEIL: Even living in this neighborhood, which is a fairly new neighborhood, I\nhave a deacon in the Church of Christ living on one side of me, and on the other\nside I have a . . . I think he's a Methodist or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Baptist or something. We joke\nabout it every year when everybody has a Christmas tree, and I tell him I'm\ngoing to put a Star of David out in the front yard. In this particular\nneighborhood, they like you for what you are. They don't care what religion you\nare. They look at you and say, \"If he's a good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fellow, I accept him,\" and that's\nthe way it should be.\n\nBERMAN: I want to get into a little bit later, into the 1950's and early 1960's.\nIf you could talk a little bit about what it was like here during that\ntumultuous Civil Rights Era.\n\nWEIL: The whole area was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uneasy. The whites didn't particularly like the blacks,\nand the blacks, of course, didn't like the whites, because mostly they'd been\nsuppressed. Being brought up, because our business was probably ninety percent\nblack, I had lots of black friends. Even during the boycott . . . A lot of them\nstopped ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming in the store. They were scared to come in the store, because of\nthe other blacks. Still, our business did alright. We really never had too much\ntrouble, other than at one time there were a few black leaders who were trying\nto make a little money out of being a leader. They would threaten us and say,\n\"If you don't pay us off, we're going to tell the blacks not to come trade in\nyour store.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I always told them, \"If that's what you want to do, do it, but I'm\nnot going to pay you.\" We have always run an operation where we were color\nblind. We treat the blacks the way we treat the whites, and if that's not enough\nthat's fine with me.\n\nBERMAN: During segregation, did you have separate dressing rooms in the store?\n\nWEIL: No, we never had separate dressing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rooms. Thank goodness we didn't serve\nfood, so we didn't worry about that. At that particular time, I think I had\npossibly one black person working for me. I know I had a guy working that was\nmore or less a janitor or a handyman type of guy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He did stock work, sales work,\netc. Then one day, out of a clear blue sky, a really high class young black lady\nwalked in the store. I never will forget it. She walked in, and she had on a\nblack suit, which was fur trimmed around the collar. She walked in, and she\nsaid, \"I'd like to see Mr. Weil.\" I said, \"I'm Mr. Weil,\" and, of course, I was\ndressed as I am ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now [casual business attire]. She said, \"I would like to apply\nfor a job.\" I took her back in the office, and we talked for a long time. I\nhired her right there on the spot, and after I hired her I wondered, \"What's\ngoing to be the result of this with my other employees?\" I had one lady who had\nbeen there ever since I was born. She lived out in Chisholm, which is in north\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Montgomery, which is sort of a mill-type village. She was very biased. She\ndidn't like the blacks, and she let it be known that she didn't like it. I was\ntotally worried about that. As it turned out, they turned out to be the closest\nfriends of anybody I had to work with. Elizabeth worked with me until I retired,\nand after I retired Alan ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"opened another store and made her manager. She just\nretired about a year ago, and she still calls me up three or four times a year.\nWe go out and eat lunch together and stay in touch.\n\nBERMAN: What's her surname, her full name?\n\nWEIL: I'm trying to think of what her last . . . She lost her husband. His last\nname was Irving, and her name is Elizabeth Irving.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You had mentioned a story earlier about whether or not to open the store\nduring the march, I believe.\n\nWEIL: During the march, we had National Guard on every corner downtown. That\nmorning I had no idea whether I was going to open the store or not. I went to\nwork that morning as usual. I always got there an hour or two before everybody\nelse. When I got to town, there was National Guard on every ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"corner, all armed\nwith automatic weapons. I decided at that point, no, I was not going to open the\nstore, but I did stay down there and watched the march come through Montgomery.\nI was really surprised at the number of white people that were involved in the\nmarch. I would say almost a hundred percent from out of town, not from this\nparticular ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"area. Quite a few rabbis were there. They came from up East, I'm\nsure. The march was peaceful, and after it was over they had some type of party\nfor the marchers out at St. Jude's. After that, most of them went out there and\nhad a good time. The next day everything was pretty well ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back to normal. We\nopened the store and went about our business.\n\nBERMAN: How did you and your contemporaries feel about the white people and some\nof the rabbis coming from other areas and involving themselves?\n\nWEIL: I always felt if that's what they wanted to do, that's fine. If they were\nsatisfied with what they were doing in their own heart, then I shouldn't be one\nto tell them no, don't do it. I think it did have an adverse ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"effect on some of\nthe white people who were here, and some of them who really didn't like the\nblacks probably said, \"Why are these Jews from up East coming down here and\nsiding with the blacks?\" I think that probably led to a little antisemitism, but\nit's like everything else. Times change, and people forget about those things.\n\nBERMAN: What about the synagogue? Did any of your friends or did you feel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"any\ndesire to get involved in the movement?\n\nWEIL: No, I didn't. I really didn't. I have always treated people like I thought\nI wanted to be treated. I didn't want to get involved, and so I didn't. We still\ntry to treat people the way they want to be treated, and I think that's the name\nof the game.\n\nBERMAN: I remember when I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"interviewed Rabbi Baylinson he mentioned that there\nwere a couple of congregants that were a little passionate about not wanting\nthings to change.\n\nWEIL: I think you have that in every congregation. I don't care where you are.\nSome of them don't like more Hebrew [in the service]. Some want less Hebrew. 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My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kids today will say, \"She probably switched\n[corporal punishment] me more than my mama and dad did. If we did something\nwrong, she'd go out in the backyard and cut a long switch and tear us up.\"\n\nBERMAN: Is she still living?\n\nWEIL: No, she's not. [I] wish she was.\n\nBERMAN: I'm sure. We were talking about the relationship with the people in your\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home. You were in the retail business for so long. Any memorable customers that\ncame through those doors that you could talk about?\n\nWEIL: I had so many memorable customers, because we had families that lived out\nin the country. They would come in every year. When I was a young guy and just\nworking as a clerk, they would bring the kids in and say, \"Mr. Weil, fix my kids\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up with clothes for school.\" I would go to each one of the kids and fit them up.\nIn those days you would pick out five [or] six changes of clothes. You would\nhave enough clothes to fill up a shoe carton for each one of them, and at the\nend of the day it might have amounted to $100 or so. 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As I was walking up to the\nfront of it, there was a young black man standing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out in the front. I walked up\nto him, and I said, \"Sir, do you happen to know where Furnace Street is?\" He\nlooked up, [and] he said, \"Mr. Weil, I don't know where Furnace Street is, but I\nknow where Monroe Street is.\" I just had to laugh, because wherever I go in this\ntown, if there are any blacks around, 99 percent of them know who I am.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful.\n\nWEIL: We had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just really great relations with the black community.\n\nBERMAN: Did you get involved in community activities. Were you involved in the\nElks or the Lions or the Kiwanis?\n\nWEIL: I was involved in a civic club, but they met on Wednesdays. I had to be\nout of town on Wednesdays, so I had to back out of that. My wife was the one\nthat was totally involved in everything that there was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"around Montgomery. I had\na business to run and that was basically what I did other than support my kids\nwhen they were playing in athletics and things like that.\n\nBERMAN: Can you describe one of your fondest memories of running that business\nfor all those years?\n\nWEIL: Yes, the day I retired.\n\nBERMAN: There must be some anecdote about somebody ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or some story\n\nWEIL: Every day was a different day. I loved being with people. I really never\nhad a real problem as far as working was concerned. It was my life. It was\nsomething that I learned early. It was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something that I was proud of, and I was\nproud of what we achieved. It was fun. Retail to me was fun. It was like a game.\nYou played the game to win. You bought the merchandise with the idea it's got to\nsell. I enjoyed the retail business.\n\nBERMAN; Going back to your home life a little bit, were the [Jewish] holidays\nimportant in the house?\n\nWEIL: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have Friday night dinners, or Sabbath . . .\n\nWEIL: We had Friday night dinners with my grandmother, and after she passed\naway, with my aunt and uncle, my folks. My dad and mother and my aunt and uncle\nchanged Friday nights every other time. My wife and I would go there. After we\nhad kids they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went there. So Friday night was always a night where we all had\nsupper together. Sundays we always had lunch together. That's something that\nhappened. It was unwritten law that we knew what was happening on Friday nights\nand Sundays.\n\nBERMAN: Who did the cooking?\n\nWEIL: At that time, they all had cooks.\n\nBERMAN: I was just wondering, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like for Passover, did they know how to make the\nseder meal?\n\nWEIL: Oh, yes. Actually, in those days we had seder at the temple. We never had\nseder at home, but they knew how to make matzo balls and the whole nine yards\n[everything]. 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There are no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"businesses for them to come home\nto, unless they go into a profession, unless they are a lawyer or a doctor or\nsomething like that. The days of small businesses [are] gone. I think right now\nwe probably have more young Jewish people living in Atlanta [Georgia] than we\nhave living in Montgomery.\n\nBERMAN: I'm sure. What about the relationship between . . . I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know that the\nSephardic congregation merged into the Temple. Do you think there will come a\ntime when every . . .\n\nWEIL: There has got to be a time when there will be one Jewish community here,\none Jewish temple, period. There is not enough left for us to support [the]\nTemple. I hate to say it. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just don't have the base to draw on. It really\ndisturbs me. I think our congregation, the Reform congregation, now would be\nglad to have the Sephardic or the Conservative congregation come and join us. I\nthink it can be worked out. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There are just not enough people to support two\nrabbis and two different types of congregations here.\n\nBERMAN: Growing up, did you associate much with the synagogue crowd?\n\nBERMAN: I was asking if you had much of a relationship with the synagogue\ngrowing up.\n\nWEIL: I had several close Jewish friends, people that I had grown up with. We\nwere always close. I didn't feel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like I was married to the congregation.\n\nBERMAN: I mean, being from the Temple, did you associate much with people from\nthe synagogue or from the Sephardic . . .\n\nWEIL: Sure. Montgomery was not that large a place. I think today we probably are\ncloser and associate more than we did years ago, because there are fewer of us.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Were you a member of the Standard Club?\n\nWEIL: Yes, I was.\n\nBERMAN: How did it finally close?\n\nWEIL: We just couldn't support it. It was just that simple. We couldn't support\na Jewish club here.\n\nBERMAN: I thought they opened the membership to non-Jews.\n\nWEIL: I think they did, but I don't think it was very successful. The Standard\nClub was just a wonderful place to go. You would go there, and you felt like you\nwere with most of your friends. 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There were two patios on either side, and\nupstairs there were private rooms, card ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rooms and poker rooms and that type of\nthing, and living quarters for the manager. It was really a nice, nice place.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful. Wonderful memories.\n\nWEIL: I really miss it. It was just nice to go somewhere where you could sit and\nrelax. You go into a restaurant now, and you get served, and they can't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wait to\nget you out the door. Out there, you could just sit around and talk to your\nfriends. Nobody was ever in a hurry to leave, and it was a lot of fun. It was a\ngreat atmosphere.\n\nBERMAN: Growing up, did you attend any of the young Jewish parties, like Falcon\nor Ballyhoo?\n\nWEIL: Yes. I went to Falcon. I went to Ballyhoo. I went to the one in . . .\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jubilee?\n\nWEIL: Jubilee. I went to all of them.\n\nBERMAN: Holly Days?\n\nWEIL: Holly Days, too. I went to all of them.\n\nBERMAN: Can you describe those weekends?\n\nWEIL: It was where all the young Jewish kids got together, and at these\nparticular weekends we got to know the kids from Birmingham. We got to know the\npeople from Atlanta. We got to know the people from Columbus [Georgia]. 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One thing I really enjoy is we still have a\ngroup of guys who went to university together, were in the ZBT together, and we\nmeet twice a year and have lunch ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"together. It's so nice to sit down and see old\nfriends. Those are the people that I feel are my closest friends.\n\nBERMAN: Were some of those weekends kind of wild?\n\nWEIL: Oh yes.\n\nBERMAN: Can you tell me a little bit about some of those antics?\n\nWEIL: I don't want to. [laughter] It was the type of thing [where] you would\nhave a date to take to an affair, and then when the affair was over you would\nmeet some girl there, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you would have a late date with her. You would take\nyour date home, and then you would pick up the other girl. Sometimes you would\ntake her home and have a late, late date with somebody else. It was the type of\nthing that went on all day, all night. I always had friends staying in my house.\nIt was great. It was all the young Jewish kids from the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"South getting together,\ngetting to know each other, and just having good, clean fun. It was nice. It's a\nshame that they don't have them today.\n\nBERMAN: What do you miss from the old days about Montgomery that you knew\ngrowing up?\n\nWEIL: I think the main thing that I miss is not knowing everybody. I used to [be\nable to] walk down the street in Montgomery downtown, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would know everybody\nthat I saw. I could call everybody on the street by first name, and they could\ncall me by first name. It's not that way anymore. You don't know your neighbors.\nYou don't know your customers. It's the difference between a small town feeling\nand a big town feeling. You go to New York, and you walk down the street, and\neverybody knocks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you off the street. They're going to run over [you], they're\ngoing to holler at you, and they're going to scream at you. That's what's\nhappening here. There's not that closeness, because you don't really know the people.\n\nBERMAN: Does your son feel that he doesn't really know his customers like you did?\n\nWEIL: He knows his customers. He can tell you just about everybody that walks\nin. He can tell you what their first name is.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful. That's a nice tradition that he's carried on from you.\n\nWEIL: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Actually, he begs me to come down there on Christmas Eve and the day\nbefore Easter and things like that. He says, \"Dad, you just come down. I don't\nwant you to do anything. You just come in the store.\" It's funny. Some of the\ncustomers come in. They look and they see me, and their face lights up. I'll\nwalk up to them and say, \"You thought I was dead, didn't you?\" It's good to see\nthe old ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"folks that still come around.\n\nBERMAN: Do you have the urge ever to go help out?\n\nWEIL: If he wants me to, yes. I still enjoy it. I don't have the stamina to stay\non my feet all day long like I used to, but I go down there and work a couple of\ndays a year just to have a little fun.\n\nBERMAN: How is retirement?\n\nWEIL: I love it. 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That's a funny\nstory, too, because my grandson got married and after ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"his wife got pregnant,\nthey didn't know what they were going to name the baby. For some reason, they\nliked the name Madeline [sp], and he was not aware that I had an aunt who was\nnamed Madeline. He did name the child Madeline, and they were surprised to know\nthat there was a Madeline Weil. She is named Madeline Weil ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sheridan [sp].\n\nBERMAN: I have one final question before we conclude. You told me a little bit\nof the story. There's another Weil family here in Montgomery.\n\nWEIL: There are several other Weil families here.\n\nBERMAN: There was the cotton Weil family.\n\nWEIL: Yes. The cotton Weil . . .\n\nBERMAN: What did your mother say?\n\nWEIL: It was not my mother. 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All she had to do was say, \"I need for you to come to Montgomery,\" and\nwherever they were, they left what they were doing, and they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to Montgomery.\nShe was the boss. It was amazing. She called them wherever they were, and they came.\n\nBERMAN: I think on that note we will conclude. Thank you so much for\nparticipating. I have enjoyed it.\n\nWEIL: It was a lot of fun.\n\nBERMAN: I hope you liked going back down memory lane.\n\nWEIL: I do. There are so many good thoughts, and then there are other thoughts\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/transcript/24817/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you don't like to think about.\n\nBERMAN: Sure.\n\nWEIL: Life goes on. 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In U.S. retailing, a dry-goods store carries consumer goods that are distinct from those carried by hardware stores and grocery stores.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWorld War I, also called First World War or Great War, was an international conflict that in 1914–1918 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions.  The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States.  It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA Reform congregation in Montgomery, AL.  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. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Phi Beta Kappa Society celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.  Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at American’s leading colleges and universities.  The Society sponsors activities to advance these studies – the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences – in higher education and in society at large.  \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA social organization of female students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Eugene Blachschleger was elected as spiritual leader of Temple Beth Or in Montgomery, AL in 1933 and served until his untimely death in January 1965.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi David A. 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Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities.  Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Selma to Montgomery marches were three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American Civil Rights Movement.  Selma and Montgomery were the focus of black voter registration drives which were resisted on every front. The marches were to support voting rights for blacks.  The first was on March 7, 1965 and came to be known as “Bloody Sunday” when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas.  Several marchers, both black and white, were beaten or murdered over the course of the marches.  The second march was on March 9, 1965.  Martin Luther King Jr. led 2,500 protestors who were turned back after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.  The third march started on March 16.  The marchers marched along U.S. Route 80 protected by 2,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army, 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard under Federal command, FBI agents and Federal Marshals.  They arrived in Montgomery on March 24.  The marchers in the third march were fed by women volunteers who cooked the food in the kitchen of the Green Street Baptist Church after which it was delivered to the gathering point for the march by truck.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe National Guard of the United States, part of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, is a reserve military force, composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, as well as of the District of Columbia, for a total of 54 separate organizations.  National Guard units are under the dual control of the state and the federal government.  The majority of National Guard soldiers and airmen hold a civilian job full-time while serving part-time as a National Guard member.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSt. Jude Educational Institute was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Montgomery, Alabama. It was located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile, and was built as \"the City of St. Jude\" by Father Harold Purcell for the advancement of the Negro people.  St. Jude was opened in 1946. It offered a full college preparatory program as well as basic skills and trade programs at night for adults.  During the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, the march camped on the St. Jude campus.  The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, and is part of the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, created in 1996.  It closed after the end of the school year in May 2014.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCoke is the common name for a soft drink made by The Coca-Cola Company, an American multinational beverage corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.  Its flagship product, Coca-Cola, was invented in 1886 by John Stith Pemberton and was purchased by Asa Griggs Candler in 1889.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39915/file/111539/annotation_set/461/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e7‑Eleven is a convenience store chain with more than 54,200 stores in 16 countries, of which more than 10,400 are in North America. 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I want to get back into your childhood a little bit.  What kind of neighborhood did you grow up in? 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