Tompkins, Marcia.

  • The young people (Episode 5 of 5, Part 2 of 2)

    The fifth in a series of five tapes produced in 1965 by then-folio editor of WBAI, Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program features interviews with young people in Tuscaloosa. |This recording was previously numbered as BB3864.09B.

  • Be it ever so humble: 1964 / produced by Marcia Tompkins.

    Marcia Tompkins returned to her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama in July 1964 and clandestinely recorded this report and actuality of a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Throughout the recording she pauses to describe what she is thinking and feeling during the meeting. This recording was originally broadcast on WBAI on September 1, 1964 and again ca.…

  • You must go home again: 1970 / produced by Marcia Tompkins (Series record)

    In 1965, Marcia Tompkins made a five-part documentary on her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, while she was on staff at WBAI. It was entitled “You must go home again or be it ever so humble, there’s no place like Tuscaloosa” (BB3864). Her tapes, which included a recording of a Ku Klux Klan meeting in Tuscaloosa…

  • You must go home again: 1965 / produced by Marcia Tompkins (Series record)

    Series record for Marcia Tompkins’ 1965 series originally named “You must go home again or be it ever so humble there’s no place like Tuscaloosa”. For this series, Tompkins returned to her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s in July, 1964 to examine the lifestyles, popular viewpoints, social conditions, and the prospects for change from the youth.…