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    Louise Broadway oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 Louise Willingham Broadway shares her experiences of segregated education in Baker County, Georgia, and she discusses the lessons that her parents taught her when she was a child. Broadway describes her experiences as a mother sending her daughter to an all-white school. She also describes her involvement in the Baker County Movement, especially her work for a doctor who treated Freedom Riders.
    • Contributor: Broadway, Louise W. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Griffin, Willie James
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Civil Rights History Project On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a national survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to...
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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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    Mary Jones oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 Mary Jones describes her childhood in Albany, Georgia, including the work she did as a child and her memories of school. Jones discusses learning about the Civil Rights Movement by reading the newspaper, and she describes her children's experiences as they entered white schools. After she joined the Albany Movement, she helped to register voters, participated in marches and boycotts, and joined the police...
    • Contributor: Jones, Mary A. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Griffin, Willie James
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Sam Young, Jr., oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 Samuel J. Young, Jr., describes his childhood in Worth County, Georgia, during the 1950s. He recalls the racial violence that he witnessed and heard stories about as a child. After graduating high school he joined the Southwest Georgia Project. He helped to start a newspaper for the project and was also involved in the group's initiative to develop a self-sufficient farm to counteract discrimination...
    • Contributor: Young, Sam - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Griffin, Willie James
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Grace Miller oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 Grace Hall Miller (mother of activist Shirley Sherrod) describes her childhood in Baker County, Georgia, her education in segregated schools, her marriage to Hosie Miller, and their early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Grace Hall Miller's commitment to the Baker County Movement grew following the murder of her husband by a white neighbor in 1965. She describes how her house became headquarters for...
    • Contributor: Miller, Grace H. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Griffin, Willie James
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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