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Film, VideoRobert McClary oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 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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Film, VideoRick Tuttle oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Culver City, California, 2013 April 11 Rick Tuttle describes his family background and when he first became aware of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides when he was a student at Wesleyan University. As a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he was recruited to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1963 and went to Greenwood, Mississippi, to work on voter registration drives....
- Contributor: Tuttle, Rick - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoWyatt Tee Walker oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Richmond, Virginia, 2014 July 09 Dr. Walker reflects on his involvement in the freedom movement, especially his work as Martin Luther King's chief of staff and as the Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1960-1964. He recalls helping to organize the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and supporting Dr. King in transcribing and publishing "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." He also remembers preaching in Petersburg,...
- Contributor: Walker, Wyatt Tee - Walker, Theresa Ann - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2014-01-01
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Film, VideoCharles Melvin Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011 June 04 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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Film, VideoKay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013 August 14 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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Film, VideoCharles F. McDew oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011 June 04 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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Film, VideoMary 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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Film, VideoDorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Ithaca, New York, 2011 July 25 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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Film, VideoMary 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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Film, VideoWalter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013 June 21 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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Film, VideoWilliam G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Detroit, Michigan, 2011 July 26 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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Film, VideoJohn Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2011 July 15 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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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, VideoLouise 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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Film, VideoShirley Miller Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011 September 15 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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Film, VideoLonnie C. King oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Atlanta, Georgia, 2013 May 29 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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Film, VideoKathleen Cleaver oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 September 16 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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Film, VideoSam Mahone oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 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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Film, VideoLucius Holloway, Sr., and Emma Kate Holloway oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 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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Film, VideoRuby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 25 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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Film, VideoMartha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Cockeysville, Maryland, 2013 March 18 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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Film, VideoClifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 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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Film, VideoWilliam S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Segundo, California, 2013 April 13 Willy Siegel Leventhal discusses his childhood in California, his experiences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1960s, and his involvement in the Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE). Leventhal describes what it was like to be a Jewish child in a mostly Catholic community and how his childhood experiences informed his later activism and identity. Baseball was especially...
- Contributor: Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, 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, VideoJoseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 June 06 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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