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He graduated from high school in 1976 and went on to study at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Jerry and his family were members of Temple Mishkan Israel in Selma. He is currently a professional photographer best known for his photography documenting the Black Belt region of Alabama. Jerry’s 2006 “Ten Jews Left” project documents Temple Mishkan Israel and its remaining congregants. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions and a number of museums in Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana. Jerry has photographed Colin Powell, Jimmy Carter, Hank Aaron, and Jane Fonda, among many others. His photographs are in many private and corporate collections, including those of the Ogden Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and a number of other museums in the southeastern United States.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn his interview, Jerry recounts how his ancestors ended up emigrating to Selma, Alabama. He recalls his memories of the black domestic worker who helped his mother at home when he was young. He reflects on how his experiences with Judaism have emphasized the importance of community and relationships with others rather than observing certain traditions or keeping kosher. Jerry shares his memories of the integration of public schools and the relationship between Jews and African Americans in Selma. He reflects on what happened to Selma after the civil rights movement and what it is like to photograph the area. Jerry recalls spending summers with his siblings and friends at the Selma Country Club. He describes finding his career in photography after struggling in college. Jerry concludes by discussing his 2006 photography project “Ten Jews Left.”\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29079"]}},{"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":["Siegel, Jerome \"Jerry,\" 1958- (personal name)","Berman, Sandra (personal name)","Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 (personal name)","Siegel, Schuster (personal name)","Siegel, Jerome, 1914-1996 (personal name)","Shuster, Joseph, 1914-1992 (personal name)","Siegel, Michael J. 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(corporate name)","Hyundai Motor Company (Seoul, South Korea) (corporate name)","Kia Corporation (Seoul, South Korea) (corporate name)","Selma Country Club (Selma, Ala.) (corporate name)","Ocmulgee Golf Course (Selma, Ala.) (corporate name)","University of South Alabama (corporate name)","Hammermill Paper Company (corporate name)","Art Institute of Atlanta (corporate name)","R.B. Hudson High School (Selma, Ala.) (corporate name)","Selma High School (Selma, Ala.) (corporate name)","Meadowview Christian School (Selma, Ala.) (corporate name)","Tulane University (corporate name)","Spring Hill College (corporate name)","Loyola University, New Orleans (corporate name)","Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) (corporate name)","White Citizens' Council (WCC) (corporate name)","Boston University (corporate name)","YMCA of the USA (corporate name)","Selma (Ala.) (geographic term)","Bavaria (Germany) (geographic term)","Demopolis (Ala.) (geographic term)","Uniontown (Ala.) 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He graduated from high school in 1976 and went on to study at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Jerry and his family were members of Temple Mishkan Israel in Selma. He is currently a professional photographer best known for his photography documenting the Black Belt region of Alabama. Jerry\u0026rsquo;s 2006 \u0026ldquo;Ten Jews Left\u0026rdquo; project documents Temple Mishkan Israel and its remaining congregants. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions and a number of museums in Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana. Jerry has photographed Colin Powell, Jimmy Carter, Hank Aaron, and Jane Fonda, among many others. His photographs are in many private and corporate collections, including those of the Ogden Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and a number of other museums in the southeastern United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn his interview, Jerry recounts how his ancestors ended up emigrating to Selma, Alabama. He recalls his memories of the black domestic worker who helped his mother at home when he was young. He reflects on how his experiences with Judaism have emphasized the importance of community and relationships with others rather than observing certain traditions or keeping kosher. Jerry shares his memories of the integration of public schools and the relationship between Jews and African Americans in Selma. He reflects on what happened to Selma after the civil rights movement and what it is like to photograph the area. Jerry recalls spending summers with his siblings and friends at the Selma Country Club. He describes finding his career in photography after struggling in college. Jerry concludes by discussing his 2006 photography project \u0026ldquo;Ten Jews Left.\u0026rdquo;\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 Jerry Siegel in Selma,\nAlabama, who has agreed to participate in the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral\nHistory Project of the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum. I am\nSandra Berman, and I am very appreciative that you have agreed to participate in\nour project.\n\nSIEGEL: Glad to do it.\n\nBERMAN: Thank you, Jerry. I want to begin, like we begin most of our interviews,\nwith you telling me a little bit about your own family and how they ended up in Selma.\n\nSIEGEL: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not going to be as good as most of them. I am not a very good . . .\nI wish I could get my sister . . . maybe I can . . . she probably knows a little\nmore. But I know that part of the family was from Austria. Gosh, I should have\ngone to the cemetery before I came over. Part of it was Eastern European and\nthen the other part of the family, Mama's family, was from England. Joseph\nFriend . . . I remember this because I thought it was fascinating . . . Joseph\nFriend was the tailor to the King of England in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1777. That was on Mama's side of\nthe family. Daddy's side was from Austria and Bavaria and I'm not really sure\nwhat brought them here. There was a Schuster Hardware, so originally the\nSchuster side of the family was in the mercantile business and the Siegel [side\nof the family] started the first Ford dealership in the state of Alabama. There\nis a great picture of the Schuster Hardware that Walker Evans did that I am\nstill trying to figure out how to get a copy of, other than copying it out of book.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When did the Schusters come here?\n\nSIEGEL: I'm not sure what year they got here. Daddy was born and raised here,\nand he was born in [19]24. I think his family had been here. If they had the\nhardware store . . . I don't think they were born here . . . the birth dates . .\n. the headstones are all Bavaria and Austria . . . I assume that they came . . .\nbut there's nobody . . . their family before them is not here.\n\nBERMAN: Okay.\n\nSIEGEL: Let's see . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"no . . . it was Schuster . . . and his mother was Helen\nSchuster who married Emil Siegel. I guess his grandparents were born here as\nwell and his great [grand]parents came from Austria and Bavaria.\n\nBERMAN: And the Siegel side came . . .?\n\nSIEGEL: I think that's the Siegel side.\n\nBERMAN: Okay.\n\nSIEGEL: The Schuster side . . . one of them is Austrian and one of them is\nBavarian. See I'm not . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . That's okay.\n\nSIEGEL: I should have done more research . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . We're okay . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . I just came and showed up. But it was Austrian and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bavaria on the\nSiegel and Schuster side and on Mama's side it was from England.\n\nBERMAN: Okay. Your father owned a hardware store?\n\nSIEGEL: Daddy actually owned a securities and loan business.\n\nBERMAN: Okay.\n\nSIEGEL: He went off to Michigan and came back. The hardware store I think had\nbeen gone . . . and I'm not actually sure what Emil Siegel, his father . . .\nit's horrible . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . It's okay.\n\nSIEGEL: I've learned so much sitting here that I didn't know and I'm getting a\nwhole different perspective. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I regret because my uncle, the other Jerry\nSiegel, was known as the town historian. They're both gone and I never . . . we\njust kind of live life. We never . . . for some reason . . . it was when they\nwere gone that I got interested. I'm not really sure. I'll get more information\nand we'll have to fill in. I'm not sure . . . I don't know what Emil did. I know\nthat Mama's father was a travelling salesman. Daddy's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father . . . .\n\nBERMAN: Your father did what here?\n\nSIEGEL: In the end he was a banker. He and Uncle Jerry, his first cousin . . .\nwho I refer to as Uncle Jerry and he was like my uncle . . . had a securities\nand loan business.\n\nBERMAN: What was the name of it?\n\nSIEGEL: Social Securities. They would travel all around. Daddy would travel to\nDemopolis [Alabama] and Uniontown [Alabama] and all over making loans. They were\na small bank, basically. Uncle Jerry did more in the office and Daddy did more\nof the travelling. And they did that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"until, probably around [19]70, somewhere\naround there. I think they got along but didn't want to do that anymore. Uncle\nJerry opened an art gallery and Daddy went to work for the bank.\n\nBERMAN: What was your dad's name?\n\nSIEGEL: Schuster Siegel.\n\nBERMAN: Schuster Siegel! He was named for the . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . for the Schuster side of the family.\n\nBERMAN: I know . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . Just a little weird thing. I'm Jerry Siegel, my father is Schuster\nSiegel. The creators of Superman were Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No relation\nthat I can figure out. But I keep finding that I'm related to people that I\ndon't know. So, I was . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . They were from Cleveland, Ohio.\n\nSIEGEL: Yes, I don't think we have any relations in Ohio.\n\nBERMAN: And I know you know that I found on eBay and purchased a receipt from\nJoe Schuster Wholesale Hardware. It was great to find out that that was your\nfamily. When were you born?\n\nSIEGEL: I was born in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1958.\n\nBERMAN: You were born, really, kind of toward the beginning . . . or in the\nbeginning of the whole civil rights movement here.\n\nSIEGEL: I was seven in [19]65. I did a talk yesterday in Mobile [Alabama] and\nbasically what I said is, \"I don't remember any of the unrest.\" Maybe that was a\nlot of Mama and Daddy insulating us from that. I've talked to the lady, Matt\n[sp.], who worked for us. I don't like to say she was our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maid. I just don't\nfeel comfortable saying that. I guess that's what she was. She came early in the\nmorning. She stayed until late in the day. She raised either eight or nine kids\nin one of those wooden shacks without plumbing. They walked half a mile to get\nwater in the morning. But she raised them with the same ideals and morals and\ncharacter that we were raised with. None of her kids have been in jail, have\nbeen in any trouble. One of them bought her a house . . . she lives in town ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now\n. . . and has done really well. One of them is a fireman, one of them does . . .\nthey've all done well. When she came to our house and took care of us . . . and\nshe worked for us . . . at one point there were two ladies that worked . . .\nMama had three of us within a three-year span. I'm the middle. It was Mike, me,\nand Helen, and we are almost exactly three years apart. There are some old\npictures of them, actually, in the white outfits. By the time I really remember\nMatt . . . 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Even though Mama and Daddy\nare gone, we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still kept the house and it's been 11 years now. Mama died in\n[19]89 and Daddy in 2000. We've really maintained . . . David and Lynn [Barton]\nwere talking about coming back to Selma. We come back and we've been in the\nhouse . . . the Jews with Christmas trees . . . we've been in the house for 54\nof the last 55 years together as a family. We've never missed except the one\nyear my brother's wife couldn't travel, so we went to New Orleans [Louisiana]\nand had Christmas as a family there. Daddy was . . . 16 years ago . . . so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daddy\nwas alive. Mike drives up on Christmas Day and we come in but on Christmas Day\nwe are all together as a family. We've maintained the house and the tradition\nand the bond. The Gibians are . . . they are all friends and family . . . but\nthey were Mama and Daddy's really close friends, and we are real close to them.\nJust because of the community that we've maintained a bond. Then I do all of my\nwork here. We are all really connected to Selma in that way as well.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How about this synagogue? How important was it in your . . . growing up?\n\nSIEGEL: I don't think the synagogue was as important in our family as in a lot\nof families. I always said that our . . . this is my perspective . . . my sister\nand brother in New Orleans and my sister in Mobile still do Passover services. I\nnever did. I went off and lived in Mobile, then in Atlanta [Georgia]. 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I was talking to Ronnie [Leet] earlier . . . we never did Friday night\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"services. Mama and Daddy had a hectic social life and that's not what we did.\nBeing Jewish was really more about the community, and the people, and the\nfamily, and tradition more than the religious side of it. If that makes sense.\n\nBERMAN: No, it does. It makes sense.\n\nSIEGEL: I don't know if race is the right word, but that side of it as opposed\nto religious tradition. It was family. We ate bacon sandwiches every morning.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When you were growing up did your family . . . were they concerned that\nthe community was getting smaller? That there wasn't going to be the same kinds\nof cohesiveness within either the Jewish community or opportunities here for you?\n\nSIEGEL: I don't remember talking about it. I think Mama was much more concerned\nabout that and interested in that than Daddy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daddy served as President of the\nBoard . . . it kind of revolves when you have a lot of people. Mama was on the\nCouncil of Jewish Women forever and ever and ever, and all that. After Mama\ndied, I don't think Daddy came back to Temple that much. Probably a lot of it\nwas he probably didn't want to come alone. But it was . . . I get sort of the\nsame feeling that David was talking about when I come into the Temple . . . when\nI got here and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"walked out there . . . just being there makes me feel good. I\ndon't know how to describe it. I can remember sitting in there for Yom Kippur\nand squirming and Mama going, \"Settle down.\" I said, \"Well, how much longer?\"\nShe said, \"Count to three hundred.\" We were not raised as . . . to say we were a\nReform congregation is putting it lightly. But then there were Jews here that\nspeak Hebrew and read Hebrew and were bar mitzvah'd. 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There's a . . . when\npeople talk about antisemitism and different things . . . and I've heard a\ncouple of stories where they'll be in a group and somebody will say . . .\nsomebody will use the term, \"Well they were Jewed down.\" But what I think that\npeople don't . . . my best friend going up calls me \"Jewrome.\" My name is\nJerome, so he'd call me \"Jewrome.\" But he knew I was Jewish, he came to Passover\nwith me, but there was a different perspective of us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being Jewish as opposed to\nthe bigger picture of what a Jew is. I never felt any different because of being\nJewish. I never did. We came and we did Passover. My sister and I were talking\nabout it yesterday. All we ever knew was Passover in this room . . . big tables\nand we did . . . [Indistinct: 12:56, singing \"Chad ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gadya\"]. There was always a\nthing where we had strawberry shortcake at the end and we always smashed it into\nsomebody's face who was visiting, one of our friends. This is different. I don't\nremember what we said. But it was . . . \"You need to smell the whipped cream,\"\nand get a face full of whipped cream. I remember the chicken and the little\nFrench fry sticks. It was always the same thing that I remember. But we always\ndid Passover here it was not in the home. I've been to lots in the Passovers in\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home now, but not to the point that I could every really do a service.\n\nBERMAN: It sounds like the menu was sort of different, too. French fries and . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . Well, they were those little cans, that you pop the cans, and they\nwere like a cross between French fries and potato chips.\n\nBERMAN: Potato sticks.\n\nSIEGEL: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Durkee's potato sticks.\n\nSIEGEL: And that's what I remember. Those and baked chicken and then the whipped\n. . . it seemed like for some reason it was English peas . . . I might be wrong\n. . . and the strawberry shortcake at the end . . . these tables all around the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"room and standing up. I guess the rabbi . . . Rabbi Lubasch was doing it because\nthat was probably when we were probably in. . . it had to be when we were in\nelementary school, not older.\n\nBERMAN: Have you ever thought years later that strawberry shortcake was not\nsomething you were supposed to eat on Passover because it was supposed to be no bread?\n\nSIEGEL: No. Never. See, that's what . . . I'm sure that a lot of other people\ndid but that was just . . . I don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know. We had the unleavened bread and did\nthe matzah and all that.\n\nBERMAN: That's great.\n\nSIEGEL: That's how Reform that our congregation was.\n\nBERMAN: How old were you, let's say . . . you were in school during the late\nSixties. You were getting into your teens . . .\n\nSIEGEL: I graduated high school in [19]76 . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . [19]76 . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . so in the late . . . [19]69 I was 11 years old.\n\nBERMAN: The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"relationship with the African American community . . . can you\nrecall any of the . . . do you recall when they started to pull out the signs\nfor the separate drinking fountains?\n\nSIEGEL: I don't remember the signs.\n\nBERMAN: You don't remember them?\n\nSIEGEL: I really don't. I don't know if Kayser's had them or Barton's or some of\nthe others stores, but I don't remember the signs, and maybe I was just . . . we\njust were oblivious. We just lived life and had a good time, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I was oblivious\nto that.\n\nBERMAN: Were the schools integrated when you were growing up?\n\nSIEGEL: They integrated when I went from sixth grade to seventh grade. And I\nended up in a private school, but it wasn't a race thing because I had been in\nByrd School which . . . there were black kids in the school. Ocie Thompson was a\nfriend. He was Ocie, and his brother was Acie, and his father was Icie [sp.].\nIt's not like we hung out together, but he was a friend. Matt, who worked with\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us, her kids would come up and we would play baseball. It wasn't friends where\nwe hung out, but I think just the way Mama raised us was . . . I think her\nreligion was more the Golden Rule. \"Do unto others.\" You treat people fair,\nyou're treated fair. Everybody's equal.\n\nBERMAN: How do you feel about what's happened to Selma as far as . . . all the\nJewish merchants are gone. We were driving in from our hotel, and there's so\nmany ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"homes that are boarded up. Why do you think that that has happened, and\nthen what do you see as the future?\n\nSIEGEL: I'm saddened by it, but I don't know if it . . . I don't think it has\nanything . . . and I asked somebody this. . . who was I talking to recently?\nSomebody . . . and I said, \"Tell me if I'm wrong,\" . . . but somebody who was .\n. . it might have been Jane Martin . . . somebody I was talking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to . . . and\nthey confirmed that I'm right. Because I've always said it wasn't the civil\nrights that took Selma down. Selma was a convenient place, it was not any worse\nthan anywhere else. It was convenient to walk to Montgomery [Alabama]. It wasn't\na hotbed or anything. And it got a bad rap for that. But what hurt Selma was\nwhen the base closed. Because you had . . . 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was one of only two or three .\n. . or it might have been the only, other than an airport . . . long enough\nrunway to take these huge, gigantic jets. We had this airport, we had rail, we\nhad the river, we had transportation. There was all this opportunity to bring\nbusiness here. It just didn't happen because of infighting and different\nperspectives . . . people not intentionally sabotaging things but because people\ncouldn't work together and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"make it happen.\n\nBERMAN: Poor government.\n\nSIEGEL: Yes, I guess it was government. I don't know if it was all government or\nif it was individuals. I'm not a historian. I'd love to know more but I was told\nthat there was a lot of opportunity there that was lost because people couldn't\nput it together and agree on it. That's really what happened. And then over time\npeople have come in who have created problems and run a lot of people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"off. When\nall the businesses closed . . . there was three Millers, there was four Palmers,\nthere was four Siegels, there was . . . trying to think of some of the other\nfamilies. Nobody stayed. Ronnie stayed. His family business was still here up\nuntil recently. But there was nothing to come back for.\n\nBERMAN: Any thought about the future? Is there any positive you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can . . .?\n\nSIEGEL: No. It scares me. I photograph the South. I come back and shoot it. It\njust seems to get . . . people look at pictures, \"Boy, it just looks\ndepressing.\" To me, I don't always see that because I have a different feeling\nand perspective on it. But I don't know how it's going to turn around. There's a\nlot of history here between the Civil Rights Museum, and the Old Depot, and the\n[Edmund Pettus] Bridge, and . . . the Temple and the Harmony Club, and even ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the\nchurches on the four corners . . . you have the Baptist, Presbyterian,\nEpiscopal, and Methodist on those four corners that are all phenomenal. There's\na lot to see here, a lot of history, but I don't know if the government will\never . . . the powers that be, whoever that makes that happen will ever actually\nmake it happen. You need to attract some sort of business other than\nInternational Paper.\n\nBERMAN: Yes, it's hopeful that maybe some manufacturing will come your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way. Get\njobs . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . You would think there still would be something available to use\nout at Craig Air Force Base but maybe there's not enough infrastructure or\nenough town left to say, \"Why do we want to put it there when we can go\nsomewhere else?\"\n\nBERMAN: Yes.\n\nSIEGEL: But then . . . which car dealership is it they just did . . . is it the\nHyundai plant . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . Kia . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . Kia that you pass and then . . . yes.\n\nBERMAN: That's what I was thinking of, the Kia plant.\n\nSIEGEL: It's really . . . the closest thing to it is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what, LaGrange [Alabama]?\nAnd that's not much town either.\n\nBERMAN: Did you ever go to Jewish summer camp?\n\nSIEGEL: No.\n\nBERMAN: Where did you hang out during the day?\n\nSIEGEL: During the summers? At the country club. At the club.\n\nBERMAN: What's the club's name?\n\nSIEGEL: The Selma Country Club.\n\nBERMAN: And it was . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . It was interesting because I hear people saying it was hard to get\nin. I don't know . . . again, I never asked Daddy but I remember when he died,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we wanted to just keep the membership going and we were really disappointed\nbecause they made us close the account. Daddy's been a member for . . . it came\nup because we made some jokes that I won't repeat, but we made some jokes about\nit because he was one . . . I don't know if his father or grandfather was one of\nthe original members. We have one of the original stocks. It was called the\n'Town and Country Club.' I don't know enough information but I hear people say\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it was hard to get in. But if somebody on Daddy's side was one of the original\nfounders . . . original stock of the Town and Country Club . . . but that's\nwhere we went in the summer . . . probably Daddy dropped us off on his way to\nthe bank in the mornings. We spent the whole day at the Club. Henry Moore, who\nwas the black guy who worked behind . . . he died . . . I think he was 56 . . .\nI'm trying to think when he died. He might have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been 10 years older than I was .\n. . 10 or 12 years older. But he raised so many of us, because our parents would\ndrop us off from my age and younger . . . still 10, 15 years younger . . . Henry\nwas there . . . to 10 years older that were probably the same age. They would\ndrop us off in the morning. We would play golf all day, we could swim if we\nwanted, go in the snack bar, and get some food and then go home in the\nafternoon. We just lived at the country club. Henry actually became . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nconsider him a friend. I think he considered me a friend. Eventually, when they\nopened Ocmulgee Golf Course, which is outside of Selma . . . there was the Selma\nCountry Club, which was the only course, and there was a course out at Craig\nthat I don't remember ever playing. But Henry obviously couldn't play at the\nclub. But when they opened Ocmulgee, which was opened by the Burns . . . which\nwas the pro out there . . . they opened this club out there . . . and Henry and\nI went out there and played a couple of times together. Even ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in high school and\ncollege, I would go over to his little . . . he had a one-room apartment. My\nparents didn't know. I'm sure they wouldn't have liked it. Probably not because\nwe were with Henry as much, but because we were doing things we shouldn't have\nbeen doing.\n\nBERMAN: Is the country club still . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . Yes . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . Still here?\n\nSIEGEL: Absolutely.\n\nBERMAN: Still has . . .\n\nSIEGEL: . . . We are still members, but instead of it being Daddy's membership\nmy brother just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"joined. We come and go . . . we're all out of town. I don't know\nhow it works. We all come and go just like we always did, and we have one number\nthat's the number and we sign Mike's number. He's taking up Daddy's role. None\nof us pay a bill, he just does. It's kind of nice.\n\nBERMAN: That's great.\n\nSIEGEL: But it's great. Whenever we're home, we go out there. That's one of the\nplaces we all go to eat.\n\nBERMAN: Where did you go . . . 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I started\ncollege on probation, they put me back on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probation. Daddy sent me a letter . .\n. I must have asked him, \"Is there something I can do at the bank?\" He said,\n\"No, why don't you come home? Let's regroup. You'll find your niche. You're not\nstupid.\" I have this two-page letter he wrote and it's nice that . . . how many\nparents after a son's been in four years in college . . . and I had a 1.15 out\nof 4. I was barely a sophomore . . . I know I wasn't a junior. He said, \"You'll\nfind your niche, don't worry about it.\" That ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"summer I came home, and I worked at\nHammermill. That was the third summer I had . . . they hired mostly kids of\nemployees. But Daddy got me a job out there and it was the third summer and at\nthe end of the summer I was going to stay and work. I was making $10 or $12 an\nhour in 1979 . . . [19]80 maybe. I thought it was a big check. Friends were here\nand we were partying and having a good time. Robert Craig, a guy named Shootie,\nsaid, \"You don't want to be here.\" Mama and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daddy . . . we had talked about some\nart schools. They went to Atlanta and stumbled on . . . I had mentioned the Art\nInstitute . . . they saw it, went in and got an application, and came back said,\n\"This sounds good. We think you should try it.\" I went to the Art Institute, and\nI found my niche. I just had my first book published. I'm in eight museums.\nHaving parents that believed in me was nice. I know of another family here whose\nson dropped out and they said, \"We'll send you back. But this is it if you don't\ndo it, you're ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"done. You're on your own.\" I can't image Mama and Daddy ever\nsaying, \"You're on your own.\" They said, \"Let's regroup and figure it out.\nYou'll find it.\"\n\nBERMAN: You're lucky, and that's wonderful, to have had that opportunity.\n\nSIEGEL: Right. The one thing I was going to say, I know this might not be\nimportant, when you were asking about school and integration . . .\n\nSIEGEL: What I was going to say is . . . I went to the private school but it\nwasn't based ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anything on integration or segregation. My friends were Ben\nChilders, whose father was a judge, Tommy Jones, whose father owned a bank, John\nBlanton, and Virgil Matthews, whose father was the preacher and John's father\nwas a lawyer. I have had different diverse . . . we were all real tight and did\na lot of stuff together. John went to Morgan . . . the city was divided, and it\nwas east ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"side and west side. R.B. Hudson High merged with Selma [High], that\nbecame west side and east side was over where . . . I think . . . it wasn't\nCountrymont . . . what was that school called? But there was a theater there . .\n. that became east side. Tommy . . . I think Ben . . . no, Ben ended up . . .\nanyway, everybody split. It wasn't like they all went this way or that way. Ben\nended up at east side and then transferred to Meadowview ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christian. Virgil was\non [the] west side, Tommy was on one of them . . . Ben . . . John went to\nMorgan. It was one of those things. Both of my sisters went to Morgan, but my\nbrother went to Selma High. We all started . . . Mike and I both started in\npublic school through sixth grade then he continued. I went through sixth grade\nthen went to private school. It was probably the only way I survived because I\nstarted college on probation. If I had been in public school, they wouldn't have\npaid ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"attention and I wouldn't have . . . at least there's somebody calling and\nsaying, \"What can we do?\" But Mike, going through public school, he was the one\nwho was Dean's list at Tulane [University]. My sister, Jane, has two masters\nfrom Spring Hill and [the University of] South [Alabama] and my sister, Helen,\nhas a degree from Loyola [University New Orleans] and I have nothing.\n\nBERMAN: You have a book published.\n\nSIEGEL: I have a book published. But it wasn't about race that decided that\nbecause we were all . . .\n\nBERMAN: Growing up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do you remember any Klan activity here in Selma?\n\nSIEGEL: I don't.\n\nBERMAN: You were too young for the White Citizens' Councils.\n\nSIEGEL: Yes. I don't remember anything like that.\n\nBERMAN: If you could describe . . . last question . . . one of your most . . .\none fondest memory of growing up in Selma? What would it be?\n\nSIEGEL: It's a big ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bubble memory. There's not one thing. Family. But it's not\njust my brother and sisters and Mama and Daddy. But it's the Gibians and how\nclose we still are to them. And it's been . . . working on my project the \"Ten\nJews\" has been great because it reconnected me with Ronnie, who I've known\nforever, but connected us in a way because, again, he's ten years older. Hanna\nBerger, who I always knew her name and recognized her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"face, but I didn't know\nHanna until I went and sat down and talked to her. I don't know if there is one\nmemory, one thing that stands out. Mama and Daddy were fun, and everybody loved\nthem. We had a great time. We had parties at our house, and everybody had a good\ntime at the club. But it was always about family. Everything revolved . . . we\nare all so close still. Eleven years later we still have the house, we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still do\nChristmas together and we do Labor Day together . . . that's the other time that\nwe're always here. We didn't make it for Katrina one year, Helen had cancer one\nyear and we didn't make it . . . my son was at Boston University, checked in on\nLabor Day so I didn't make it, but as a group that was always a big deal. July\n4th was always a big party, but it was just the community. Not just the Jewish\ncommunity . . . there wasn't that separation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in my mind. I always knew I was\nJewish, and I was always proud of it, but I don't know that if I thought about\nit as much when I was younger. I was just Jerry . . . and Tommy and Ben and all\nthe different people that I hung out with. Yes.\n\nBERMAN: I love your nickname. \"Jewrome.\"\n\nSIEGEL: \"Jewrome.\"\n\nBERMAN: On that note we can conclude.\n\nEINSTEIN: Jerry, you just mentioned your \"Ten Jews\" project. Can you maybe give\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us a little bit of an idea of that came about and why, and what you learned from\nthat project and whether it shaped your views on Selma and the Jewish community\nhere. Just some thoughts on that project.\n\nSIEGEL: I don't know if it's changed . . . if it shaped my views. I think it\njust kind of awoke me and made a little more aware. I felt like . . . around 31\n. . . Mama died in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[19]89, I was about 31 . . . but it was about that time I\nkind of felt like I had my first awakening and started figuring out who I was\nand got into art and photography and really learning more. And then with the\n\"Ten Jews\" project, it gave me another sense about wanting to know more about .\n. . I'm not a deep person, I haven't delved into it a lot . . . but when I was\nat the Art Institute, I said to Mama one day, I said, \"I want to shoot all the\nJews.\" I'm a portrait photographer. I do a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot of different things, but I love\nshooting portraits and that was what the book is. And I said, \"I want to shoot a\nportrait of all the Jews in Selma.\" And I just never did it and it's probably\none of the few regrets that I didn't do it. I was coming back, and I was\nshooting pictures around Selma and I had this idea to shoot iconic images. I\nshot the [Edmund Pettus] Bridge, and I went to the YMCA, which was important. I\nwent to Uncle Jerry's house . . . he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had polio as a kid, and he had a chair that\nwent up . . . he had one of those motorized chairs . . . I shot that because we\nspent so much time with him and his mother. I shot the Temple. I shot this . . .\nI brought in my big 8x10 camera and did some shots there and did some other\nshots. Then Mike, my brother, and Rusty Palmer were kind of leading the charge\nto try to raise money to save the Temple. I was up here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and shot a whole bunch\nof pictures and spent about a day and a half just by myself in here. That kind\nof kicked it off. And then I started thinking about all the Jews and how few\nthere were and it just kind of snowballed from there. I wasn't . . . pretty much\nlike the artists here, they didn't have this brilliant concept to do it, it was\njust me. Everything I do is sort of intuitive and following my heart. This place\nobviously was important enough when I was thinking about iconic things that I\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wanted to be here and shoot pictures. That kind of kicked it off. It's been\ngreat because, like I said, I reconnected with Ronnie. I knew him . . . I could\ntell you exactly where he sit compared to where we were. I knew Hana Berger but\nnot very well. I didn't know the [Ed and Connie] Embers at all . . . I knew\ntheir names, and they're great. And June and Seymour [Cohn] . . . obviously, I\nknew all these people. But I've done a couple of interviews with June and\nSeymour at their house and sat down on the floor and listened to them. 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We were back here, and they\nsaid, \"Well, as long as we're here let's have a Temple meeting because we're all\nhere.\" It was January and there was no heat, and everybody has on heavy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coats\nand scarves and everybody was standing like this and they're looking at papers\nand I have pictures of them doing it. We went out of the Temple and we did the\nshot of them all standing there. I said, \"This is great, but this isn't how I\npicture . . . this is not what I had in mind. I want y'all all to go where you\nsat growing up.\" Because . . . we sat here, the Gibians were in front, and the\nLeets were here. I think churches and all are very much like that, too . . . you\nhave your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"spot. It also did a lot better job of showing the perspective of what\na beautiful Temple it was, how big it is, and how few are left. When you just do\na group . . . it's a small group, but when you see them in their spots. I don't\nknow if that answered your question.\n\nBERMAN: If I go and get those two photographs before we conclude can you hold\nthem up for the camera?\n\nSIEGEL: Absolutely.\n\nBERMAN: That'd be great.\n\nSIEGEL: This is the picture. This is just kind of the . . . I wouldn't call it a\nformal portrait, but this was the group shot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everybody.\n\nEINSTEIN: Tilt it a little\n\nSIEGEL: So we don't get a reflection . . . there we go.\n\nSIEGEL: This is one that I did that sort of puts everybody back in their\nposition of where they sat during temple. I want to dig some and see if can't\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"figure out why the window is in backwards, because you wouldn't put it in\nespecially up high in front. I don't think you can even see it from outside. All\nthe other windows read inside. If the other ones read out it could have been\nthat it was made to read from outside, but you wouldn't put all the other ones\nto read one way and have that one . . . I have actually retouched the picture\nand [flipped] it so that it reads ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/transcript/42221/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"correctly. Then I went back to the original\nbecause that's part of the story and what makes it unique and interesting. I\njust have to figure out a title for it, so people don't go, \"He [flipped] the\npicture. They got that wrong.\" Because it's not wrong. I've got to find out what\nthat history is.\n\nBERMAN: Thank you.\n\nSIEGEL: You're welcome.\n\nBERMAN: I appreciate it, Jerry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=2220.0,2250.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/annotation_set/1022","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/annotation_set/1022/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e Jerome “Jerry” Siegel was born and raised in Selma, Alabama. Growing up, he and his family were members of Congregation Mishkan Israel in Selma. He is best known for his work as a photographer of Alabama’s Black Belt region. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/annotation_set/1022/annotation/77","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/88929/file/184450#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/annotation_set/1022/annotation/78","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/88929/file/184450#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/annotation_set/1022/annotation/79","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 Jerry Siegel is one of those transcripts.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/annotation_set/1022/annotation/80","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/88929/file/184450#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/88929/file/184450/annotation_set/1022/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBavaria is a state in southeast Germany. It is the largest German state by land area and the second-largest by population. 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The song accumulates in each verse:  “One little goat, one little goat: Which my father bought for two zuzim.” Then: “One little goat, one little goat: the cat came, and ate the goat, Which my father bought for two zuzim.” Etc. on through dogs biting cats, sticks beating dogs, fires burning sticks, water extinguishing fire, oxen drinking water, the shochet slaughtering the ox, the angel of death slaying the slaughterer, then the Holy One smiting the angel of death. It ends:  “One little goat, one little goat.” Some theorize that the different animals are nations that have conquered the land of Israel. 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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 US Route 80 protected by 2,000 soldiers of the United States Army, 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard under Federal command, FBI agents and Federal Marshals. They arrived in Montgomery on March 24. 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The Elks Club occupied the building from the 1930s until 1960. David Hurlbut, an industrial designer and architectural consultant from Atlanta, purchased the building in 1999 after it had been vacant for 40 years and began a renovation of it that was completed in 2010. 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She married Seymour Cohn (1914-2017) in 1946 and gave birth to their only child Rick in 1948. June opened the Young Sophisticate Shop on the second floor of Eagle’s Department Store in the early 1960s, which sold clothing and goods for teenage girls. June and Seymour opened Eagle World Travel in the early 1970s and ran it for 16 years until their retirement. She was interested in women’s fashion her entire life. June was a member of the Selma branch of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). She and her husband were active members of Temple Mishkan Israel throughout their lives. June passed away in December 2015.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeymour Cohn was born on December 16, 1914 in Atlanta, Georgia into an Orthodox Jewish family. Seymour came to Selma in 1941 for basic training at Craig Field after he enlisted in the United States Army Air Force. He also attended the United States Army Officer Candidate School. 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