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    Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia... Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial and his service in the segregated army during World War II. He recounts his career as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including the Brown v. Board of Education case and...
    • Contributor: Sullivan, Patricia - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Carter, Robert L.
    • Date: 2010-01-01
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    Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by J... Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker and worked in a variety of administrative positions including as director of development.
    • Contributor: Bond, Julian - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2010-01-01
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    Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwan... 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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    Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by ... 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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    Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bon... Lawrence Guyot recalls growing up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, and the influence of his family, and attending Tougaloo College. He remembers meeting members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), joining the organization, and participating in Freedom Summer. He discusses his opinions and memories of Mississippi politics, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and his later life in Washington, D. C.
    • Contributor: Bond, Julian - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Guyot, Lawrence
    • Date: 2010-01-01
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    C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branc... C. T. Vivian recalls growing up in Macomb, Illinois, working in Peoria, Illinois, and his call to the ministry. He discusses attending the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, where he met other civil rights activists and participated in demonstrations. He remembers planning the Freedom Rides, his imprisonment at Parchman Prison, the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and working for the Southern Christian...
    • Contributor: Vivian, C. T. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Branch, Taylor
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mo... Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to Montgomery March, registering voters in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her arrest in Hayneville, Alabama. She remembers the murder of Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student who saved her life, and discusses her opinions on African American...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Sales, Ruby
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Jose... Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and dance, and traveling to Albany, Georgia, to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with voter registration. She remembers teaching adult literacy in Mississippi with SNCC, starting the Free Southern Theater,...
    • Contributor: Derby, Doris Adelaide - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Jamila Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni... 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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    Simeon Wright oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn... 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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    Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mos... Wheeler Parker, Jr., discusses his visit to Mississippi with his cousin, Emmett Till. He recalls the incident at Bryant's store and the night that Till was kidnapped, and Till's funeral in Chicago. He remembers how the murder and publicity affected his family, the reopening of the case in 2004, and efforts to memorialize Till.
    • Contributor: Parker, Wheeler - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Jo... 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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    Calvin Luper oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni... 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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    James Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph ... 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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    Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Josep...
    Anne Sobol and Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26
    Richard Sobol discusses his early career as a lawyer in Washington, D. C., his involvement with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, and his decision to move to New Orleans to become a civil rights lawyer. He recalls meeting Robert Hicks of Bogalusa, Louisiana, being personally protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice, and his involvement in many job discrimination cases brought against the...
    • Contributor: Sobol, Anne Buxton - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Sobol, Richard B.
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history int... Cynthia and Fletcher Anderson remember the segregation and job discrimination they faced in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their decision to join the Civil Rights Movement. Fletcher recalls working many different jobs at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill, the harassment of the police and Ku Klux Klan, and joining the Deacons of Defense and Justice. They discuss their job discrimination lawsuits, their friends involved in the...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Anderson, Fletcher - Anderson, Cynthia Baker
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Hicks family oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni... The Hicks family remembers their childhood in segregated Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their father, Robert Hicks, a local civil rights leader. They recall leading a children's civil rights march in Bogalusa to protest discrimination at Woolworth's, hosting two white civil rights workers, Bill Yates and Steve Miller, and being protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice.
    • Contributor: Hicks, Charles Ray - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Collins, Barbara Maria - Hicks, Valeria Payton - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Burras, Carol Cummings - Hicks, Darryl Robertson
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Geraldine Crawford Bennett, Toni Breaux, and Willie Elliot Je... Geraldine Crawford Bennett, Toni Breaux, and Willie Elliot Jenkins remember their mother and sister Gayle Jenkins, a leader of the civil rights movement in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They discuss their family history, how the family became involved in the movement, and Willie Jenkins' court case to integrate the public schools. They recall being protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice, marching in local rallies,...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Breaux, Toni - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Mosnier, Joseph - Jenkins, Willie Elliot
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Annie Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph ... 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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    Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Josep... Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders in 1961, and spending a year in a segregated sanitarium when she had tuberculosis. She recounts organizing Tuskegee students for the Selma to Montgomery March, occupying the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and registering voters in Lowndes...
    • Contributor: Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Charles F. McDew oral history interview conducted by Joseph M... Charles McDew recalls growing up in Massillon, Ohio, his family's involvement in the steel mill unions and attending South Carolina State University. He remembers being arrested three times in two days for not obeying segregation laws in South Carolina, founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and registering voters in Mississippi.
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - McDew, Charles
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Charles Melvin Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Jo... Charles Sherrod recalls how he became involved in the Albany Movement in Georgia, recruited local residents, and led marches and protests against segregation.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Sherrod, Charles
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Joseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Jose... Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the differences in race relations between Mobile and other southern cities, and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He reflects on the effectiveness of nonviolence, the libel suit against him,...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Lowery, Joseph E.
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Matthew J. Perry oral history interview conducted by Joseph M... 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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    Ernest Adolphus Finney oral history interview conducted by Jo... Ernest Finney recalls his father's teaching career and attending law school at South Carolina State College. He remembers defending the "Friendship Nine," a group of college students who protested segregation in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He discusses joining the South Carolina Human Rights Commission, serving as a state representative, and his election to the State Supreme Court.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Finney, Ernest A., (Ernest Adolphus)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Cecil J. Williams oral history interview conducted by Joseph ... Cecil J. Williams remembers his childhood in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and starting his career as a photographer for several African American publications in his teens. He remembers photographing President Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, and other civil rights leaders. He also discusses the Briggs v. Elliot school desegregation case, and his photographs of the Orangeburg Massacre.
    • Contributor: Williams, Cecil J. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    William Saunders oral history interview conducted by Kieran W... William Saunders remembers his childhood on Johns Island, South Carolina, and working with Esau Jenkins, a local civil rights leader. He recalls serving in the army during the Korean War, attending the Highlander Folk School, and working at a mattress factory. He also discusses founding the "Lowcountry Newsletter," helping the workers in the Charleston Hospital Strike of 1969, and running unsuccessfully for the state...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Taylor, Kieran Walsh - Saunders, William
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Esther M. A. Terry oral history interview conducted by Joseph... Esther M. A. Terry remembers growing up in Wise, North Carolina, and attending Bennett College. She recalls planning the Greensboro Woolworth's sit-in with students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (later North Carolina A & T University), being arrested for her participation, and the support of the Bennett College President, Dr. Willa Player. She also discusses attending the University of North...
    • Contributor: Terry, Esther M. A. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Evans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Jos... Evans Hopkins recalls growing up in Danville, Virginia, and participating in efforts to desegregate public schools and the library. He remembers joining the Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Oakland, California, and working on Bobby Seale's campaign for Mayor of Oakland. He also discusses his imprisonment for car theft and the high rate of incarceration among African American men.
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Hopkins, Evans D.
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn... Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merged with other groups to become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses the March on Washington, the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, changes in SNCC, and attending the Sixth...
    • Contributor: Cox, Courtland - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Simeon Booker and Moses James Newson oral history interview c... Simeon Booker and Moses Newson recall their early careers in journalism at several African American newspapers. Newson remembers covering school desegregation cases in Clinton, Tennessee and Hoxie, Arkansas, for the Memphis Tri-State Defender. Booker discusses covering the Emmett Till murder and the integration of Little Rock High School for Jet. They both remember covering the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington.
    • Contributor: Booker, Simeon - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Newson, Moses J.
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Freeman A. Hrabowski oral history interview conducted by Jose... 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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    John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by ... John Churchville recalls growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother's career as a music teacher, moving to New York, and converting to Islam. He remembers joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), registering voters in Americus, Georgia, and in Mississippi. He discusses moving back to Philadelphia, converting to Christianity, and founding the Freedom Library and Black People's Unity Movement.
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Churchville, John Elliott - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mos... Jack Greenberg remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other civil rights cases, such as Coke v. City of Atlanta, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, and Griggs v. Duke Power.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Greenberg, Jack
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Gloria Hayes Richardson oral history interview conducted by J... Gloria Richardson recalls growing up in Cambridge, Maryland, attending Howard University, and joining Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with her daughter, Donna, after returning to Cambridge and running her father's drug store. She recalls traveling to the South with her family to assist SNCC with voter registration, organizing the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, assisting E. Franklin Frazier with research on African Americans, and marching...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Richardson, Gloria
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Alfred Moldovan oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mo... Alfred Moldovan remembers growing up in the Bronx and the influence of his parents, who were Jewish Hungarian immigrants. He recalls serving in the air force as a radio repairman during World War II and later attending medical school. He discusses founding the Medical Committee for Human Rights and traveling to the South to assist injured civil rights activists at events such as the...
    • Contributor: Moldovan, Alfred - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Junius W. Williams oral history interview conducted by Joseph... Junius Williams recalls growing up in Richmond, Virginia, attending Amherst College, and joining the student group Students for Racial Equality. He remembers attending the March on Washington, organizing a civil rights conference at Mount Holyoke, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses traveling with other students to the Selma to Montgomery March, being arrested at the march with Worth Long,...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Williams, Junius W.
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history ... 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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    Pete Seeger oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie... Pete Seeger recalls performing at a concert with Paul Robeson in 1949 in Peekskill, New York, visiting the Highlander Folk School, and the evolution of the song "We Shall Overcome." He remembers performing at many civil rights events, including the Selma to Montgomery March. He also discusses his thoughts on Presidents Barack Obama and Rutherford B. Hayes.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Seeger, Pete
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Jo... Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Daniel, and meeting her husband, George Cotton. She discusses attending the Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, working with pastor Wyatt T. Walker on organizing civil rights protests and meetings, and meeting Martin Luther...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cotton, Dorothy F.
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Josep... William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath practice in Albany, Georgia, becoming a leader of the Albany Movement, and supporting protesters from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He discusses his several arrests with King and Abernathy, appearing on...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Anderson, William G. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mos... Phil Hutchings recalls growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his parents' involvement in many civic organizations, and attending Howard University. He remembers joining the Nonviolent Action Group (a precursor to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)), protesting at the White Rice Inn in Maryland, and working with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. He discusses moving to Newark, New Jersey, to work for SNCC, Students for...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hutchings, Phil
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Thomas Walter Gaither oral history interview conducted by Jos... 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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    Audrey Nell Hamilton and JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer oral history i... 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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    Purcell Maurice Conway oral history interview conducted by Jo... Purcell Conway recalls growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, and working many odd jobs. He recalls facing discrimination, participating in demonstrations, and witnessing a riot when attempting to integrate the beach. He also discusses moving to New York City, his career as a police officer, and successfully suing the city for discrimination in promotions.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Conway, Purcell Maurice
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Jose... Barbara Vickers recalls growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, working in a shipyard in New York during World War II, and returning to St. Augustine with her husband. She remembers working as a beautician, working with her neighbor, Dr. Robert Hayling, to organize civil rights protests and participating in kneel-ins in segregated churches. She also discusses raising money to build a monument to the...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Vickers, Barbara Edna
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Gwendolyn Annette Duncan oral history interview conducted by ... 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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    Robert Bagner Hayling oral history interview conducted by Jos... Robert Hayling recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental practice in St. Augustine, Florida, leading the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and the exclusion of African Americans from St. Augustine's 400th anniversary celebration, and being...
    • Contributor: Hayling, Robert Bagner - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons oral history interview conducted by... Gwendolyn Simmons recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Spelman College. She remembers directing SNCC's voter registration and Freedom School, called the Freedom Summer Project in Laurel, Mississippi. She discusses learning about Black Nationalism in New York, the decision in SNCC to expel white members, and her work with the American Friends Service Committee's Program on Government Surveillance and...
    • Contributor: Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Shirley Miller Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Jo... Shirley Sherrod recalls growing up on a farm in Baker County, Georgia, her father's murder, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She remembers traveling to Washington, D. C., to protest the Justice Department, and the attacks on her husband, Reverend Charles Sherrod, a civil rights leader in Albany, Georgia. She also discusses starting the New Communities Land Trust and working for the...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Sherrod, Shirley
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Kathleen Cleaver oral history interview conducted by Joseph M... Kathleen Cleaver recalls growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, India and the Philippines while her father worked for the foreign service. She remembers dropping out of college to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as a secretary, and witnessing the dissolution of that organization. She discusses meeting her husband, Eldridge Cleaver, joining the Black Panther Party, and organizing against police brutality.
    • Contributor: Cleaver, Kathleen - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan oral history interview ... 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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    David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history in... 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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    Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview cond... Doris and Joyce Ladner discuss organizing for the March on Washington with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dorie Ladner recalls her work with SNCC in Natchez, Mississippi, and the murder and trial of Medgar Evers. They both remember growing up in Palmers Crossing, Mississippi, their family history, joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth chapter led by Clyde...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Ladner, Dorie - Mosnier, Joseph - Ladner, Joyce A.
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    William Lamar Strickland oral history interview conducted by ... William Strickland recalls growing up in Boston, Massachusetts, attending Boston Latin High School and Harvard University, and serving as a Marine. He remembers his friendship with Malcolm X, joining the Northern Student Movement, and his work with Vincent Harding and the Institute of the Black World. He also discusses the current research on Malcolm X and his opinions on politics.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Strickland, William
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Carrie Lamar Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph... Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including Myrtle Glascoe, Bill Hansen, and Howard Himmelbaum. She remembers registering voters, gathering signatures to overturn a poll tax, and protesting at the Arkansas state capitol. She discusses her marriage to Howard Himmelbaum, suing her...
    • Contributor: Young, Carrie Lamar - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Elmer Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Clin... 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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    Steven McNichols oral history interview conducted by David P.... 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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    Mildred Pitts Walter oral history interview conducted by Davi... 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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    Amos C. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cl... 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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    Clifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kw... Clifford Browner discusses his childhood in Sasser, Georgia, and how he came to be involved in the Southwest Georgia Movement for civil rights in the early 1960s. He describes mass meetings at Mount Olive Baptist Church, protesting racial segregation at his high school, and participating in the March on Washington. He concludes the interview by evaluating the changes he has seen in southwest Georgia...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Browner, Clifford
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Lucius Holloway, Sr., and Emma Kate Holloway oral history int... In this short interview, Lucius Holloway, Sr., and Emma Kate Holloway describe their experiences in Terrell County, Georgia. They discuss their childhood memories of Southwest Georgia, and how they came to meet and marry. The remainder of the interview focuses on their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, the harassment they faced from white supremacists, and their role in registering black voters.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Holloway, Emma Kate - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Holloway, Lucius
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Sam Mahone oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Je... Sam Mahone discusses his experiences of racial segregation and discrimination in Americus, Georgia, and how he came to be involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). After he joined SNCC, he participated in an array of activism: picketing a segregated movie theater, registering voters, and organizing in the black community. He also discusses the arrests that he and other activists experienced due to...
    • Contributor: Mahone, Sam - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Robert McClary oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwam... 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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    Johnnie Ruth McCullar oral history interview conducted by Has... Johnnie Ruth Browner McCullar describes growing up in southwest Georgia, attending segregated schools in Sasser, Georgia, and her work in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She was a secretary of the Terrell County Movement and she also participated in sit-ins and helped to register voters. McCullar reflects on the legacy of the movement, noting the changes in social and political life that...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - McCullar, Johnnie Ruth
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Sam Young, Jr., oral history interview conducted by Will Grif... 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... 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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    Louise Broadway oral history interview conducted by Will Grif... 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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    Mary Jenkins oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin... 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 i... 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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    Walter Bruce oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer... 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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    Euvester Simpson oral history interview conducted by John Dit... Euvester Simpson discusses her childhood in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and she describes her parents' decision to send her to Racine, Wisconsin, to attend high school because they were fed up with segregated public schools in Mississippi. For her last year of high school, Simpson returned to Mississippi, and she became active in the Civil Rights Movement. She describes attending a citizenship school in Charleston,...
    • Contributor: Dittmer, John - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Simpson, Euvester
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Julia Matilda Burns oral history interview conducted by John ... 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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    Rosie Head oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer i... 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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    Robert G. Clark, Jr., oral history interview conducted by Joh... Robert G. Clark, Jr., describes the early life experiences that led up to his successful campaign for political office in the Mississippi Legislature, where he became the first African American elected since Reconstruction. He discusses his childhood in Pickens, Mississippi, and he describes the family farm that he now owns, his relationship to his family, and the expectations that they had of him to...
    • Contributor: Dittmer, John - Clark, Robert George - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    H. Jack Geiger oral history interview conducted by John Dittm... Dr. Jack Geiger discusses his early life experiences and how he came to be a leading figure in the Medical Committee for Human Rights. He describes his childhood in New York City, where he found a mentor in actor Canada Lee, his college experience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his time as a U.S. Merchant Marine. He discusses his involvement in the Commission...
    • Contributor: Dittmer, John - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Geiger, Jack
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Ben Caldwell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cli... 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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    Rick Tuttle oral history interview conducted by David P. Clin... 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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    Joan Trumpauer Mulholland oral history interview conducted by... Joan Trumpauer Mulholland shares how, as a child in Arlington, Virginia, her awareness of racial disparities grew. As a student at Duke University, she began participating in the sit-in movement. She soon moved to Washington, D.C. and joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), which led her to participate in the Freedom Rides of 1961. She describes in detail serving time at Mississippi State Penitentiary...
    • Contributor: Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Dittmer, John
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Martha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted... Martha Prescod Norman Noonan describes her childhood in Providence, Rhode Island, and being one of the few black families in the neighborhood. Her parents urged her to attend the University of Michigan, where she joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and learned about the Civil Rights Movement in the South. She eventually made her way to Albany, Georgia, where she worked with the...
    • Contributor: Noonan, Martha P. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Dittmer, John
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Di... Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Denmark, and he describes the group's activities. He discusses his first impressions of Howard University, where he joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG). He shares memories of...
    • Contributor: Sellers, Cleveland - Dittmer, John - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    William S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by Davi... 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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    Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by... 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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    Clarence B. Jones oral history interview conducted by David P... 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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    Samuel Berry McKinney oral history interview conducted by Dav... The Reverend Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney recalls growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, and attending Morehouse College, where he got to know fellow freshman Martin Luther King, Jr. After service in the Army Flight Corps during World War II and finishing his college education, McKinney became a minister at a church in Seattle, Washington, where he contributed to the creation of the Liberty Bank. He...
    • Contributor: McKinney, Samuel Berry - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cl... Charles Siler remembers his early life in Louisiana, including a penchant for drawing that began before the age of two, quitting the Boy Scouts when his troop made black Scouts walk behind the horses in a local parade, and picketing Louisiana's segregated State Library as a senior in high school. He was eventually expelled from Southern University because of his activism. He joined the...
    • Contributor: Siler, Charles E. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Aaron Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Clin... 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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    Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branc... Basketball player Bill Russell remembers his childhood in Louisiana and Oakland, California, in the 1940s. After winning two Final Fours with the University of San Francisco, he won an Olympic gold medal and an NBA championship playing for the Boston Celtics, one of thirteen Russell would win, including eight in a row. Russell had a difficult relationship with the sports media in Boston, but...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Russell, Bill - Branch, Taylor
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Linda Fuller Degelmann interview conducted by Emilye Crosby i... Linda Fuller Degelmann discusses her experiences at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, and how she and her husband Millard Fuller were inspired to start Habitat for Humanity. She describes her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and her memories of racial segregation from childhood through young adulthood when she became aware of the Freedom Rides and the Civil Rights Movement. She and Millard decided to move...
    • Contributor: Crosby, Emilye - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Fuller, Linda
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Lonnie C. King oral history interview conducted by Emilye Cro... Lonnie C. King shares his memories of growing up in Atlanta, where he attended Ebenezer Baptist Church and was close with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family. He recalls hs stint in the U.S. Navy, his years as a student at Morehouse College, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta in the 1960s. He also remembers his relationships with older African American leaders...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - King, Lonnie C. - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Scott Bates oral history interview conducted by David P. Clin... 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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    Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cl... 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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    Lisa Anderson Todd oral history interview conducted by Emilye... Lisa Anderson Todd shares memories from when she was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteer in Mississippi in 1963 and her recollections of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Todd describes how she was introduced to the Movement during her participation in a work camp at Tougaloo College and how she went on to do voter...
    • Contributor: Todd, Lisa Anderson - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    William Lucy oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosb... 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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    Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby... Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did with the United Farm Workers and how he ended up moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, for four years where he organized for the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union and helped to register...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Zapata, Luis - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, ... 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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    Cecilia Suyat Marshall oral history interview conducted by Em... Cecilia Suyat Marshall recalls moving from Hawaii to New York where she found a job as a secretary with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1948. Marshall notes some of the highlights of her experiences at the NAACP offices, including the organization's victory in the Brown v. Board case, traveling the South with NAACP staff, and attending conferences. There...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Marshall, Cecilia - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cl... 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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    Kay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline... Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She remembers attending the trials of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers in Cairo, Illinois, and traveling to Ghana in 1962. When she returned to the United States in 1963 she participated...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Tillow, Kay
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    John and Jean Rosenberg oral history interview conducted by D... Jean and John Rosenberg begin this interview with recollections of their families' backgrounds. Jean learned about social issues as she was raised by a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, and John's family fled Germany under threat from the Nazis. Jean attended Wilmington College and became a research analyst for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. John grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina, where FBI...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Rosenberg, John M. - Cline, David P. - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker
    • Date: 2013-01-01