Draft:Winston Craig (chauffeur)
Winston Craig was a chauffeur who drove and served as a valet for governors of Alabama. He advised governor Jim Folsom on issues related to African Americans.[1] Craig was dispatched by Folsom to meetings of black leaders and to help register black voters.[1]
He was appointed to the board of Tuskegee Institute. Governor John Patterson replaced him with a state patrolman.[2]
A play is based on his story.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company. 5 February 1959.
- ^ "Winston Drives Big Jim (2019) | Program". Department of Theatre & Film Performance Archive. 3 October 2019.