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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE Civil Rights History Project Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African American History & Culture and the Library of Congress, 2011 Mildred Bond Roxborough oral...
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Date:2010
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01:00:55 other people in the community to join them to go to the county courthouse to register to vote. That was a primary ingredient. This is before 01:01:13 they organized a branch...
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MS. ROXBOROUGH: Both my parents would teach us. My mother, there were three of us, of which I was the youngest. My mother or my father virtually every evening before I went...
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01:06:01 and taken to jail a few times, but not formally charged. He was usually let go. However, one evening he was brought home having been rather badly beaten. The sheriff and...
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01:09:25 about our studies. There were a lot of uniformed young men on the campus as a part of the training program that the federal government had at that point in time....
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01:11:47 man who was the president of Parks Sausage, which was an early black corporation which was if not the first of its kind, was one of the first of its kind....
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INTERVIEWER: What were your impressions of Roy Wilkins? MS. ROXBOROUGH: Very elegant man, one who was extremely similar, concerned about the language and its use, the syntax and sentence structure. Of course,...
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01:17:03 enjoyed the spotlight as well. She was not ever shy. At that time, the governor of Arkansas was Orval Faubus. He was known to be anti-black, a segregationist, and was 01:17:24...
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INTERVIEWER: Do you remember E.D. Nixon, the president of Montgomery Branch, a Pullman car porter. MS. ROXBOROUGH: Yes, I do. 01:20:14 INTERVIEWER: What do you recall about him? MS. ROXBOROUGH: Well, he...
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01:22:42 to function, then we would not be able to do anything about an Emmett Till. This was the great concern, whether this would stop the movement. INTERVIEWER: Do you remember any...
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INTERVIEWER: But you didn't know 01:25:30 where he was and didn't know he'd walk into the office, did you? MS. ROXBOROUGH: I didn't have the faintest idea he was in the New...
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01:28:07 settled into a job and whatever. He said, "I want to clear my name before I die." That's really when our general counsel--not that visit--but it was arranged to give him...
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INTERVIEWER: What were the goals that you worked on that involved young people? What were the programs that you worked on that involved young people? MS. ROXBOROUGH: Well, the programs 01:30:29 which...
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INTERVIEWER: A moment ago you talked about Roy Wilkins succeeding Walter White. Walter White died. MS. ROXBOROUGH: Yes, he did. INTERVIEWER: Roy Wilkins was named to succeed him. Do you remember any...
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He kept our constituents committed in the units across the country. He tried to travel as much as he could because they are the connection 01:35:43 between the national office and the...
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MS. ROXBOROUGH: SCLC? INTERVIEWER: SCLC. 01:38:41 MS. ROXBOROUGH: My impression? Well, I think the SCLC was an effective organization in the sense that it brought to the fore in the minds of...
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01:40:57 leader in James Farmer, who formally worked for the NAACP as our program director. Many of these leaders by the way of the other organizations had gotten their grounding and their...
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01:43:54 President Roosevelt to understand that an executive order desegregating federal installations should be issued. Of course that wasn't integration, but it was a first step. 01:44:12 That was done without any...
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01:47:04 he demonstrated the fact that discipline could be achieved in leadership. He exercised discipline in the sense of the followers who became committed to the movement which he lead believed and...
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01:50:28 him, John, he was Chairman of the Legal and Redress Committee of Detroit Branch, having been born in Michigan and reared in Michigan. When I first went to Detroit to work...
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MS. ROXBOROUGH: When you say here, are you talking-- 01:53:34 INTERVIEWER: [Interposing] I mean New York, in the New York Office. MS. ROXBOROUGH: About the national office. 01:53:37 INTERVIEWER: National office. MS....
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INTERVIEWER: What about when the local leadership would be under attack, as in the case of Medgar Evers assassination? What was the New York Headquarters' response? MS. ROXBOROUGH: Well, its response was...
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01:58:52 just before this particular time. It was difficult to believe that these people would continue to carry on like this because the situation was so oppressive in Mississippi. We were driving...
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01:00:23 talk with them, and I would say to inspire them and to sort of inject discipline. To keep them together in other words. They were individual personalities. I did not get...
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MS. ROXBOROUGH: Yes. After she worked for the NAACP is when I met her because she was a very forceful personality. She became focused on our youth if you recall and actually...
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01:06:00 communities primarily in the south or as far west as Kansas, which eventually became the group of cases led by Brown to go up through the process on to the Supreme...
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01:08:45 How has the situation changed over time? MS. ROXBOROUGH: You mean in terms of the-- INTERVIEWER: [Interposing] Of women in the NAACP. MS. ROXBOROUGH: Well, actually when you think about women's...
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01:11:52 point in terms of amassing the information, which was the basis on which that march was constructed and held as a result of that report she brought back in 1918. The...
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01:14:08 INTERVIEWER: There must be something here that you've done here that you are proud of among other things. Among all the things you've done here, there must be things that stand...
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01:16:46 For me, it was always a good female when they said to me, "Well, you've done the basic organizing in the membership department. We need you as an executive assistant to...
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01:19:32 across cotton fields and other fields at night to get to a local meeting which was being held, and the fact that there were police patrolling in the Delta area, my...
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01:23:17 think the NAACP has had that kind of an effect in communities where it has functioned as an entity. People have felt that they could get help going to the NAACP,...
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