/internal/media/dispatcher/75875/fullValda Montgomery, Joanne Bland, and Jimmie Travis Oral History02/28/2006[Jimmie Travis, Joanne Bland, Valda H. Montgomery, Stephen Fagin]Jimmie TravisHi-8 videotapeVideotaped oral history interview with Valda H. Montgomery, Joanne Bland, and Jimmie Travis. As a child in the 1960s, Valda H. Montgomery was part of a prominent African-American family in Montgomery, Alabama. She observed the aftermath of the 1955 bus boycott and the activities of the civil rights Freedom Riders, and had contact with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a young child in Alabama, Bland participated in the violent Selma march on "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965. Later that month, she joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his march from Selma to Montgomery. Jimmie Travis joined the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961. During his activism, he was shot and wounded by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Interview conducted at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on February 28, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-six minutes long.Oral Historieshttps://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26171/rdf