Winston Craig was a chauffeur who drove and served as a valet governors of Alabama. He advised governor Jim Folsom on issues repated to African Americans.[1]
A play is based on his story.[2]
He was appointed to the board of Tuskegee Institute. Gov. John Patterson replaced him with a state patrolman.[3]
Craig was disptched by Folsom to meetings of black leaders and to help register black voters.[4]
References edit
- ^ Greenhaw, Wayne (January 2011). Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-56976-825-9.
- ^ "Winston Drives Big Jim (2019) | Program". Department of Theatre & Film Performance Archive. 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company. 5 February 1959.
- ^ Greenhaw, Wayne (January 2011). Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-56976-825-9.