Tuscaloosa (Ala.)

  • Four people of the town (Part 3 of 4)

    This is the third of four programs produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called “You must go home again: 1970,” about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. This program presents a sort of “voice portrait” of four people who are active and…

  • Phone-in questions (Part 4 of 4)

    This is the fourth and final program produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called “You must go home again: 1970,” about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. In this live program, Tompkins answers questions from call-in listeners, but first plays a 15…

  • An interview with Robert Shelton (Part 2 of 4)

    This is the second of four programs produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called “You must go home again: 1970,” about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. In this program she interviews Robert Shelton of the Alabama Knights of the Ku Klux…

  • Well, the words have changed anyway (Part 1 of 4)

    In this first program in the series “You must go home again: 1970,” Marcia Tompkins introduces this new series, reads a bit of her recent writing, then plays the first program “Some voices of the town” from her 1965 “You must go home again” series That recording is followed with interviews with her family and…

  • 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…