Audio Recording Edward Clinton Davis interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-31.

Audio recording of interview with Edward Clinton Davis.
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Title
Edward Clinton Davis interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-31.
Summary
Dr. Edward Davis talks about his father's role in owning the Ben Moore, a Green Book hotel in Montgomery Alabama. His father purchased seventeen properties in the neighborhood street where the Ben Moore hotel was located. Davis inherited all of the properties after his father passed and he discusses the challenges of being a property owner and his efforts to preserve the building. Davis shares a story about his dad, who chased Reverend Ralph Abernathy with a hatchet after he caught Abernathy having an affair with his wife. Dr. Martin Luther King wrote an article about the incident in Jet Magazine. Clinton's father sued Jet Magazine for 75,000 and won.
Contributor Names
Davis, Edward Clinton, interviewee.
Taylor, Candacy A., interviewer.
Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor.
Created / Published
2018-12-31
Subject Headings
-  Davis, Edward Clinton--Interviews
-  Civil rights workers--Alabama
-  African American civil rights workers--Alabama
-  African American press
-  Family-owned business enterprises
-  Architecture
-  Self-employed
-  Small business
-  African American businesspeople--Interviews
-  African Americans--United States--Travel--Guidebooks
-  African American business enterprises--History
-  Montgomery (Ala.),--event place
Genre
Sound recordings
Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
Interviews
Oral histories
Personal narratives
Notes
-  Recorded at the Ben Moore Hotel, Montgomery, Alabama, December 31, 2018.
-  The Green Book--documenting African American entrepreneurs : Archie Green Fellows project, 2018-2019 (AFC 2018/029: 05280) Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
-  To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers.
-  In English.
Medium
1 sound file (wav) (38:26) : digital, sound.
2 photographs : digital, jpg, color.
1 manuscript : pdf, text file.
Source Collection
The Green Book--documenting African American entrepreneurs : Archie Green Fellows project, 2018-2019 AFC 2018/029: 05280
Repository
Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2018029.afc2018029_05280_sr01
afc2018029.afc2018029_05280_ph
afc2018029.afc2018029_05280_ms01
Library of Congress Control Number
2020655492
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Chicago citation style:

Davis, Edward Clinton, Interviewee, Candacy A Taylor, and Sponsor Occupational Folklife Project. Edward Clinton Davis interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, -12-31. -12-31, 2018. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020655492/.

APA citation style:

Davis, E. C., Taylor, C. A. & Occupational Folklife Project, S. (2018) Edward Clinton Davis interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, -12-31. -12-31. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020655492/.

MLA citation style:

Davis, Edward Clinton, Interviewee, Candacy A Taylor, and Sponsor Occupational Folklife Project. Edward Clinton Davis interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, -12-31. -12-31, 2018. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020655492/>.

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