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Film, VideoDavid Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011 September 20 David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, participating in the march, and their later life in Silver Spring, Maryland.
- Contributor: Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Ackerman, David M. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoJames Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Austin, Texas, 2011 May 25 James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, and attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff. He discusses his involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and meeting activists Bill Hansen and Ben Grinage. He recalls participating in sit-ins at Woolworth's drug store in Pine Bluff, and...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Jones, James Oscar
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoThomas Walter Gaither oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011 September 12 Thomas Gaither recalls growing up in Great Falls, South Carolina, attending Claflin College, and leading the college's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter. He remembers the student sit-ins in Orangeburg, South Carolina, joining the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and being arrested for protesting in Hollywood, Florida. He discusses organizing the Freedom Rides, his belief in nonviolence, and earning his...
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Gaither, Thomas Walter
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoJohn Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland, 2013 June 28 The interviewees in this group interview were students who staged a walkout in 1951 at the all black, segregated Adkin High School in Kinston, North Carolina, to protest unequal conditions. The interviewees describe their family backgrounds, life in segregated Kinston, and Adkin High School. They remember learning that their school was unequal to the all-white school from which they were barred, and planning and...
- Contributor: Stewart, Eleanor - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Suggs, Frances L. - Suggs, Harold - Dove, Samuel - Jarmon, Charles - Dudley, John F. - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoWorth 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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Film, VideoNathaniel Hawthorne Jones oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Claiborne County, Mississippi, 2015 December 03 Nathaniel Hawthorne Jones was born in Claiborne County, Mississippi in 1914. He recalls his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, specifically the Port Gibson Movement, in Mississippi. He discusses being drafted into the Navy in 1944 and the racial discrimination he experienced in his role as a Steward Mate. During the Port Gibson Movement, he was involved in the Port Gibson Merchant Boycotts, organizing...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bishop, John Melville - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoWalter Bruce oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Durant, Mississippi, 2013 March 11 Walter Bruce shares memories of his childhood in Durant, Mississippi, where his family sharecropped. As a young man he became a carpenter and also a gospel singer. He describes his early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, including his participation in Mississippi Freedom Summer. Bruce was involved in community and political organizing throughout the 1960s, from helping to start health clinics and participating in...
- Contributor: Bruce, Walter - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Dittmer, John
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoScott Bates oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Sewanee, Tennessee, 2013 June 20 Professor Scott Bates describes his career as an educator and civil rights supporter in Sewanee, Tennessee. He discusses his memories of race relations on U.S. Army bases during World War II, and he describes how he moved from the Midwest to Sewanee, Tennessee to become a college instructor of French. Once in Sewanee, Bates soon learned about the Highlander Folk School, where he attended...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bates, Scott
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoJamila Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 27 Jamila Jones recalls participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a child and forming a singing group at age 11, the Montgomery Gospel Trio, to raise money for the Civil Rights Movement. She recalls helping the Freedom Riders, visiting the Highlander Folk Center, writing a new verse of the song "We Shall Overcome," and founding the Harambee Singers.
- Contributor: Jones, Jamila - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoMyrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, 2010 November 17 Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work. She remembers joining the Baltimore Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), moving to California, and her work as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in West Point, Mississippi and Phillips County, Arkansas, where she worked closely with...
- Contributor: Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2010-01-01
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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, VideoSimeon Wright oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, 2011 May 23 Simeon Wright discusses his cousin, Emmett Till, and his attempts to correct the historical record concerning Till's murder. He recalls Till's visit to his home in Mississippi, going to Bryant's store, and the night that Till was kidnapped. He remembers the trial, moving to Chicago, and how the murder and publicity affected his family.
- Contributor: Wright, Simeon - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoEmmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Grahamsville, New York, 2011 July 21 Priscilla Tietjen Bassett recalls growing up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attending Smith College, and Emmett W. Bassett remembers growing up in Henry County, Virginia, serving in World War II, and attending Tuskegee Institute, where he assisted George Washington Carver with research. They tell how they met at a protest of a segregated restaurant in Massachusetts, raising money for Emmett Till's mother, their involvement...
- Contributor: Bassett, Priscilla - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bassett, Emmett W.
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoGwendolyn Annette Duncan oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida, 2011 September 14 Gwendolyn Duncan recalls her family history in Saint Augustine, Florida, watching a Ku Klux Klan parade through the black neighborhood of Lincolnville, and integrating a white school. She discusses the efforts in St. Augustine to commemorate the local Civil Rights Movement, including the ACCORD Freedom Trail.
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoGertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur Paysour in Marvell, Arkansas, 2010 November 22 Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in rural Arkansas. She discusses assisting Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers Howard Himmelbaum and Myrtle Glascoe, working for Head Start, and starting a community center. Jackson's grandson is also interviewed.
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Paysour, Lafleur
- Date: 2010-01-01
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Film, VideoAnnie Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Selma, Alabama, 2011 May 31 Annie Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeting in Atlanta and being stranded and threatened in Marietta, Georgia, on the way home. She discusses her involvement in the Albany Movement, her many arrests for protesting, marching with William Moore, and participating in voter...
- Contributor: Avery, Annie Pearl - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011-01-01
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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, VideoJulius W. Becton oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, 2015 December 15 Julius W. Becton recalls events that led to his service in the military. He highlights being the first African American to hold many of his positions in academics, the military and post-military career. Emphasizing how the integration of the military influenced his attitude towards racial issues, he offers a unique perspective on the Civil Rights Movement. He expresses deep pride for his efforts to...
- Contributor: Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley) - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoEkwueme Michael Thelwell oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Pelham, Massachusetts, 2013 August 23 Ekwueme Michael Thelwell remembers his time as a student activist at Howard University and his experiences with the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Working primarily out of Washington, D.C., Thelwell marched in and organized demonstrations and made major contributions to SNCC and MFDP strategy around voter registration and the MFDP's 1965 effort...
- Contributor: Crosby, Emilye - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Thelwell, Michael
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoLeesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 03 Leesco Guster remembers experiencing segregation growing up and working in Port Gibson, Mississippi, and Chicago, Illinois. She recalls her work as an activist in Port Gibson, where she canvassed for voting rights, boycotted segregated businesses, and joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She also discusses churches' role in the Civil Rights Movement and her participation in the trial NAACP...
- Contributor: Guster, Leesco - Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoJulia 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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Film, VideoGrace 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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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, VideoE. Maynard Moore oral history interview conducted by David. P. Cline in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 14 Maynard E. Moore shares his experience in the Civil Rights Movement as a minister and how the intersection of religion and education provided an opportunity for racial integration. He recalls his involvement in the Methodist Student Movement from his early career as a migrant camp worker, to later pursuits in doctoral education, up to his participation in the Selma march. Emphasizing the commitment to...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Moore, E. Maynard - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoWilliam Lucy oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, D.C., 2013 June 25 William Lucy discusses his role in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in the 1960s, especially how he and the union supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1966 Lucy started to work for AFSCME in Washington, D.C., as the Associate Director of the Department of Legislation and Community Affairs. Lucy explains AFSCME's support of the Civil...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Lucy, William - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2013-01-01
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