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Film, VideoWilliam S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Segundo, California, 2013 April 13 Willy Siegel Leventhal discusses his childhood in California, his experiences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1960s, and his involvement in the Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE). Leventhal describes what it was like to be a Jewish child in a mostly Catholic community and how his childhood experiences informed his later activism and identity. Baseball was especially...
- Contributor: Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoElmer Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seattle, Washington, 2013 February 28 Elmer Dixon discusses his childhood in Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington, where he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., and heard Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader Stokely Carmichael speak. At 17 he met Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in Oakland and established, with his brother Aaron Dixon as Defense Captain, the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. Dixon discusses his...
- Contributor: Dixon, Elmer - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoNorma Mtume oral history interview conducted bv David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 27 Norma Mtume talks about her involvement with the Black Panther Party (BPP); her work in the free medical clinics established by the BPP and her incarceration on trumped-up charges orchestrated by the COINTELPRO initiative of the FBI. She talks of her subsequent work to establish city-wide free health-care programs
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mtume, Norma - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoAaron Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seattle, Washington, 2013 May 11 Aaron Dixon describes his childhood in the Midwest and in Seattle and how he became a leader in the Black Panther Party, helping to found the Seattle chapter of the Party. Dixon describes in detail his family history and the influence of oral tradition on his racial consciousness. He discusses the role of the Black Student Union at the University of Washington and details...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Dixon, Aaron
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoAmos C. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Francisco, California, 2013 March 02 Reverend Dr. Amos Brown discusses his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi and meeting Medgar Evers, who quickly became his mentor. Brown was a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a teenager, leading the Jackson chapter and then the whole state Youth Council and traveling with Mr. Evers across the country to attend a national conference. He was asked...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoCarlos Montes oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Alhambra, California, 2016 June 27 Carlos Montes, founding member of the Brown Berets, talks about his decades-long involvement and activism in the Brown Berets, the Brown Power movement, MEChA, the East L.A. blowouts, the Chicano moratorium against the Vietnam War, the anti-Iraq war protests, his political persecution at the hands of federal and local authorities. He recounts participating in the inter-racial coalition that occupied the Mall in Washington, DC,...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Montes, Carlos - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoRick Tuttle oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Culver City, California, 2013 April 11 Rick Tuttle describes his family background and when he first became aware of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides when he was a student at Wesleyan University. As a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he was recruited to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1963 and went to Greenwood, Mississippi, to work on voter registration drives....
- Contributor: Tuttle, Rick - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoMildred Pitts Walter oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Mateo, California, 2013 March 01 Mildred Pitts Walter discusses her early life in Louisiana, attending Southern University, and moving to Los Angeles in 1944. Pitts recalls meeting Earl Walter whom she married two years later, her work with Earl who headed the Los Angeles chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1951 to 1963, CORE pickets of housing developers in Los Angeles, and her work as a...
- Contributor: Walter, Mildred Pitts - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoGloria Arellanes oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Monte, California, 2016 June 26 Gloria Arellanes talks about her life growing up in California, finding her way to the Brown Berets and participation in the Poor People's Campaign (1968) in Washington, DC. She also talks about her exploration of her roots and identity in an indigenous community.
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Arellanes, Gloria - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoMichael D. McCarty oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 26 Michael "Mac" McCarty talks about joining the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago, IL. He discusses racism in Chicago and the leadership of Fred Hampton of the Party and the beginnings of the Rainbow Coalition that brought together African Americans and Appalachian whites. He recalls the circumstances under which Hampton was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 21 by the COINTELPRO operation of...
- Contributor: McCarty, Michael D. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoRoberta Alexander oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Diego, California, 2016 June 29 Dr. Roberta Alexander, Professor Emeritus at San Diego City College, talks about her family background in California, her mixed-race heritage, and activist roots, including her time with the Black Panther Party.
- Contributor: Alexander, Roberta - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoMaria Varela oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Pasadena, California, 2016 June 29 Activist and MacArthur fellow, Maria Varela, recalls her role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), discussing her work in organizing adult literacy programs in Mississippi and her role as one of SNCC's only female photographers. Offering a Mexican American perspective of the Civil Rights Movement, she identifies how SNCC embraced multiculturalism, extending its activism to include the Chicano Movement. She reflects on her...
- Contributor: Varela, Maria - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoGloria 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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Film, VideoMateo Camarillo oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in National City, California, 2016 June 28 Mateo R. Camarillo talks of his involvement in a range of civil rights campaigns in and around the San Diego area, since the 1960s, including fair housing, police-community tensions, collaboration and cooperation with city officials on these issues. He recalls racism in the south during his service years in Vietnam. Finally, he talks about his entrepreneurial work in recent years.
- Contributor: Camarillo, Mateo - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoHarold K. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Diego, California, 2016 June 28 Harold "Hal" K. Brown talks about his activist work in obtaining housing and voting rights for San Diego's African American communities. He also discusses his time working in Apartheid-era Lesotho with the Peace Corps, his tenure as chairman of San Diego's CORE branch, and his thoughts on contemporary activism and racial and economic inequality.
- Contributor: Brown, Harold K. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoD'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee, 2013 August 13 D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participation in the civil rights activism as a student at Southern University, for which he was ultimately expelled. Bailey describes his move to Clark University in Massachusetts, where he became involved...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bailey, D'army - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoBen Caldwell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2013 April 11 Ben Caldwell shares his family's history in the Southwest and his childhood experience in New Mexico. Caldwell describes his military service during the Vietnam War and how his experiences made him reflect on racial prejudices in the United States. He began studying art, and he eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he has been part of a black arts movement since the 1970s. He...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Caldwell, Ben R. - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoClarence B. Jones oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Palo Alto, California, 2013 April 15 Dr. Clarence B. Jones shares memories from his work as a legal advisor and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In particular, he describes his significant contributions to the "I Have a Dream" speech, which King delivered at the March on Washington in 1963. Jones also describes his early life living in a Philadelphia home for indigent black orphans and foster children, because...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Jones, Clarence B.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoEricka C. Huggins oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Oakland, California, 2016 June 30 Ericka Huggins discusses joining the Los Angeles Chapter of the Blank Panther Party in 1967. She shares her involvement with community survival programs such as the People's Free Medical Clinics and Breakfast Programs. Sharing how these programs were often undervalued and overlooked by the suspicions of the police and the FBI, she sheds considerable light on the turbulent experience of being a Panther woman....
- Contributor: Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Huggins, Ericka
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoSteven McNichols oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Burlingame, California, 2013 March 01 Steven McNichols discussed his childhood in New York City, his mother's illnesses and attending the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958. He became involved in politics through the National Student Federation and National Student Association, and participated in the Freedom Rides, riding a train from Los Angeles, California, to Houston, Texas. He also discusses his work with the Delta Ministry, the Mississippi Freedom...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - McNichols, Steven
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoElbert "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