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In a ledger the Institute has used as a visitors' book on and since its opening days are written the accounts of movement participants.

Those who signed were asked to record what they did - whether they marched, were arrested, or served in some capacity or capacities, many have engaged in more than one activity.
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In the restricted spaces of the forty-one lines on the ledger's first page are found thirty-six names of those who marched in 1963's demonstrations, three who served as security guards, seven who said they were arrested and six who said they were jailed, two who served as committee members, two who served meals, and ten who worked to register voters. The pages which follow list many more.

The ledger is the basis for the Civil Rights Institute's oral history project. Its sign-up sheets are the Birmingham movement's socail register, a roster of who was and who did what, a righteous roll call of the movement's nameless and forgotten. The listings are their testimony to their testimoy to their contribution, their description of what they did, an inventory of
the protest movement, a catalog of what it took to make movement