Helen Baer, Mary Y. Gonzalez, and Eileen Walbert were members of the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, a
group that marched to the Selma courthouse on March 6, 1965. The Concerned White Citizens of Alabama was a
subgroup of the Alabama Council of Human Relations. Helen Baer was a member of the Unitarian church and the
Vestavia Garden club. Mary Young Gonzalez had two young daughters who also participated in the march. Eileen
Walbert was an Alabama native and one of the early indefatigable workers for Negro civil rights.
In their narrative, Helen Baer, Mary Gonzalez, and Eileen Walbert discuss the Concerned White Citizens of
Alabama and their participation in the Selma-Montgomery Rights March in 1965.
Recorded in Birmingham on October 27, 1975, as part of the University of Alabama in Birmingham Oral History
Research Project.
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