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    Mary Jenkins oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 Mary Jenkins describes Albany, Georgia, during her childhood and discusses moments when she encountered racial prejudice. She describes her education in all-black schools, her decision to attend Fisk University, and her longing to become a teacher. Around the time of Brown v. Board of Education, she began teaching in Georgia and witnessed negative reactions of white administrators to the decision. Jenkins describes her decision...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Jenkins, Mary F. - Griffin, Willie James
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Sally K. Cumberworth interview conducted by Michael Robert Bussel, 2014-12-16 Interview with Sally Cumberworth about her career as a home care worker. She talks about how she got into health care as a divorced mother of five; skills and abilities that good health care workers must have; her relationships with her clients and their families; her increasing involvement with the union; and how receiving a SEIU "Trailblazer" award made her feel "like she had...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Cumberworth, Sally K. - Bussel, Robert
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Sarah Ahmad interview conducted by Dr. Julie Pearson Little Thunder, 2021-01-15 In this interview, visual artist Sarah Ahmad discusses her exposure to art growing up in Pakistan and the importance of education for her family. She describes her experience attending the National College of Art in Lahore and how it broadened her worldview and artistic ability. She talks about art finding her after living in the United States for several years and some of the...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Little Thunder, Julie Pearson - Ahmad, Sarah
    • Date: 2021
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    Matthew J. Perry oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Columbia, South Carolina, 2011 June 07 Judge Matthew J. Perry recalls serving in the military during World War II, and experiencing discrimination during the war. He remembers watching a trial that inspired him to go to the newly formed law school at South Carolina State College. He discusses his start as a trial lawyer in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the famous civil rights cases he argued, joining the NAACP Legal Defense...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Freeman A. Hrabowski oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Baltimore, Maryland, 2011 August 14 Freeman A. Hrabowski recalls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attending the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church. He remembers being arrested for marching in the Birmingham Children's Crusade in 1963, and remembers the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. He also discusses attending Hampton University and later starting the Meyerhoff Scholars Program for African American men studying math and science.
    • Contributor: Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Harry A. Blackmun oral history interview. Session 9 In this interview, Harry Blackmun focuses on his recollections of October Term 1973, mainly discussing the U.S. v. Nixon case and the surrounding Watergate scandal. He describes the great anxiety, and tremendous pressure, they were under to get a unanimous opinion out so late in the term. He also talks about Justice Douglas and his Goose Prairie cabin, leaks to the press, Chief Justice...
    • Contributor: Koh, Harold Hongju - Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew)
    • Date: 1995
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    Rosie Head oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Tchula, Mississippi, 2013 March 13 Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and worked on a plantation. She discusses how her parents faced racial discrimination in their work and how they were cheated by the plantation owner and then blacklisted. In 1964, Head joined the Civil Rights Movement in Tchula, Mississippi, where her family had relocated. Head recounts the various ways she was...
    • Contributor: Dittmer, John - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Head, Rosie M.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Elbert "Big Man" Howard oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Santa Rosa, California, 2016 June 30 Elbert "Big Man" Howard founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland with Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and others in 1965. Howard speaks of the Party's accomplishments in establishing the free community food programs, free medical clinics, and other service initiatives. He recounts the harassment by the FBI's COINTELPRO initiative, and recounts instances of everyday racist oppression by the state and local officials. Howard...
    • Contributor: Howard, Elbert - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    Olga Yakimchuk interview conducted by Sonia De La Cruz and Helen Marie Moss, 2015-03-07 Olga Yakimchuk relates her experiences as a home care worker for her husband's parents. Originally from Ukraine, where she was trained as a nurse, she arrived in Portland just as the Home Care Workers Commission was being established and has been caring for her in-laws for 15 years. Finds taking care of the elderly satisfying and "noble." Remarks on the need for humor, faith,...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Moss, Helen Marie - Yakimchuk, Olga - Cruz, Sonia De La
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Audrey Nell Hamilton and JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida, 2011 September 13 Audrey Hamilton and JoeAnn Ulmer recall growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, and participating in sit-ins led by Dr. Robert Hayling at Woolworth's drug store as teenagers. They recall serving a sentence in jail, attending reform school, and meeting Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jackie Robinson.
    • Contributor: Hamilton, Audrey Nell - Ulmer, Joeann Anderson - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Market, Tennessee, 2011 September 19 Candie Carawan recalls attending Fisk University as an exchange student and meeting civil rights activists in Nashville, Tennessee. She discusses meeting Guy Carawan at the Highlander Folk School, the importance of music to the civil rights movement, and Guy's work to record singers involved with the movement. The two perform several songs, including "Tree of Life," "Eyes on the Prize," and "We Shall Overcome."
    • Contributor: Carawan, Guy - Mosnier, Joseph - Carawan, Candie - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Mary Jo (Kulesza) Veluzat and Phillip L. Veluzat interview conducted by Brent A. Bjorkman, 2014-06-24 Mary Jo Veluzat, former Assistant Chief of Maintenance, and her partner Phillip Veluzat, former Chief Ranger, have deep, lifelong connections to Mammoth Cave National Park. Mary Jo's father was the Superintendent of the Park, and Phillip is a native of Cave City. Reflecting on her experiences growing up as the child of a ranger, Mary Jo discusses family dynamics and her father's career, and...
    • Contributor: Veluzat, Phillip L. - Occupational Folklife Project - Veluzat, Mary Jo - Björkman, Brent
    • Date: 2014
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    Madihah Janjua interview conducted by Dr. Julie Pearson Little Thunder, 2020-12-12 In this interview, visual artist Madihah Janjua describes how, despite her family's educational privilege, her housewife mother never got to use her degree in botany. She remembers reaching out to other Pakistani students while in college, but not being able to connect with them. Despite her warm reception from a small group of galleries and artists, she explains how her physical appearance, her fluency...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Janjua, Madihah - Little Thunder, Julie Pearson
    • Date: 2020
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    Kathy Proffitt interview conducted by Brent A. Bjorkman, 2014-02-20 Kathy Proffitt is the Daily Operations Supervisor at Mammoth Cave National Park. Growing up locally, Proffitt made numerous class visits to the park, and in her senior year a guidance counselor suggested that she apply to Mammoth for summer work. Although she planned to be a classroom teacher when she was first hired in 1987, she soon realized that her love of the park...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Proffitt, Kathy - Björkman, Brent
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24 Marilyn Hildreth describes growing up in segregated Oklahoma and the leadership of her mother, Clara Luper, in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group. She recalls participating in a drug store sit-in as a child, and the success the group had with several restaurants in Oklahoma City. She remembers her mother's leadership in the African American community in...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Adelina Martinez interview conducted by Michael Robert Bussel and Sonia De La Cruz, 2015-06-14 Interview with Adelina Martinez about her work as a home care provider. Originally from Cuernavaca, Mexico, for the last 10-months she has been officially employed caring for her disabled 20-year old son. Although she spent years caring for her son, recent professional training and official employment as his care giver has made her aware of the profession and the many resources available. Talks about...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Cruz, Sonia De La - Bussel, Robert - Martinez, Adelina
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Wyatt Tee Walker oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Richmond, Virginia, 2014 July 09 Dr. Walker reflects on his involvement in the freedom movement, especially his work as Martin Luther King's chief of staff and as the Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1960-1964. He recalls helping to organize the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and supporting Dr. King in transcribing and publishing "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." He also remembers preaching in Petersburg,...
    • Contributor: Walker, Wyatt Tee - Walker, Theresa Ann - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Calvin Luper oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24 Calvin Luper remembers his mother, Clara Luper, and her leadership in Oklahoma City's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council. He recalls participating in sit-ins in drug stores and restaurants, and hosting a radio show with his mother. He also remembers other leaders in Oklahoma's civil rights movement, including Dr. Charles N. Atkins, E. Melvin Porter, and Ada Lois Sipuel.
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Luper, Calvin - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Dion Diamond oral history interview conducted by David Cline in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 13 Dion Diamond discusses his activism and experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. He remembers growing up in segregated Petersburg, Virginia, and attending Howard University, where he began organizing for civil rights. He also recalls his work in Mississippi and Louisiana as a Freedom Rider and activist, his studies at University of Wisconsin and Harvard University, and his later career. Finally, he speaks about contemporary...
    • Contributor: Diamond, Dion T. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Robert McClary oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 In this short interview, Robert McClary discusses his involvement in the Southwest Georgia Project. McClary describes attending mass meetings in Worth County, Georgia, and he discusses his work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Along with keeping the books, he registered voters and informed people about welfare services.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - McClary, Robert
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013 June 21 Walter Tillow discusses how he joined the Civil Rights Movement as a college student and how that led him into labor and leftist movements. He describes his childhood in New York City and the leftist politics of his parents, as well as how he learned about the Movement as a college student at Harpur College and as a graduate student at Cornell University. In...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Tillow, Walter M.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Frederick Wooley interview conducted by Jonathan E. Kay, 2014-05-01 After starting his career with Detroit's city parks, Fred Wooley worked as an interpretive naturalist in Pokagon State Park for 35 years before retiring in March of 2015. In this interview, Wooley discusses his mentors and the process of mentoring younger employees, explaining that the educational process "goes both ways." He also describes the changing uses of technology in park programming over the course...
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    Worth W. Long oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Jackson, Mississippi, 2015 December 06 Worth W. Long largely discusses experiences growing up in a household strongly connected to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Long discusses churches as important aspects of community building and as meeting spaces for the African American civil rights activists. He recalls personal experiences participating in protest and other forms of activism during the 1950's and 60's, including his participation with Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
    • Contributor: Bishop, John Melville - Long, Worth W. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Ojai, California, 2013 April 14 Gloria Claudette Grinnell recounts her participation in the sit-in movement in Richmond, Virginia, when she was a student at Virginia Union University. She describes her family's history on the East Coast and explains how she and her mother ended up in San Francisco. She discusses her decision to move from California to attend Virginia Union. She describes the sit-in movement that she joined in...
    • Contributor: Grinnell, Gloria Claudette - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Julia Matilda Burns oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Tchula, Mississippi, 2013 March 13 Julia Matilda Burns describes her experience in segregated schools in Humphreys County, Mississippi, where she grew up. After becoming a teacher at Marshall High School in Belzoni, Mississippi, she began to take notice of the Civil Rights Movement, but her involvement was limited because she did not want to lose her job. Burns describes protests by whites against school desegregation in Tchula, Mississippi, and...
    • Contributor: Burns, Julia Matilda - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Dittmer, John
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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