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The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and RepositoriesCivil rights mediation oral history projectRepository: University of Colorado. Conflict Information Consortium Collection Description (CRHP): Bob Ensley speaks at length about the trial of Joan (Joann) Little in North Carolina; Edward Howden and Ernest Jones describe working with black firefighters and police officers on job discrimination issues; Bob Hughes talks about race discrimination in Anchorage, Alaska, and the desegregation Portland, Oregon schools; Julian Klugman discusses discrimination in California schools; Efrain Martinez comments on dealing with charges of police brutality in Texas. In addition, Ozell Sutton talks in detail about the Sanitation Workers' Strike in Memphis, Martin Walsh describes racial tensions at U-Mass Amherst, and Wally Warfield talks about desegregation in Atlanta. A number of interviewees, including Dick Salem, describe mediation efforts that took place within police forces or correctional facilities, and several discuss ways they handled the prejudice they themselves encountered in their work. Interviewees reflect on the politics and motivations of all individuals involved in these moments of conflict. Collection Description (Extant): In 1999, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation gave Conflict Management Initiatives, Evanston, IL, in partnership with the Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, Boulder, a grant to obtain oral histories from seventeen mediators from the U.S. Community Relations Service (CRS) in order to document, and make available on the Internet, what they did and how they did it when they responded to volatile civil rights conflicts. The mediators selected for these interviews all have reputations among their peers as accomplished practitioners. They include retired mediators who were with the agency in its early years and others who are active at CRS today. They gained their experience in nine different field offices and the national headquarters in Washington, D.C. They represent the racial and gender diversity that typifies CRS. All have a vast amount of experience working with communities enmeshed in racial conflict. In interviews that ranged from three to nine hours, they described their thinking and the techniques and strategies they used in their efforts to bring parties to agreement in the most racially polarized community conflicts. Respondents were asked to be as specific as possible in describing their case work, although names and places often were omitted or fictitious names were used to protect confidentiality. Access Copy Note: The edited transcripts of these interviews are available at the collection URL. They may be read in their entirety, or searched by topic. The original recordings are not accessible to researchers or the general public. Collection URL: http://www.civilrightsmediation.org Date(s): 1999 Digital Status: Partial Extent: 19 interviews (audio cassettes, transcripts) Language: English Interviewees: Angel Alderette, Leo Cardenas, Bob Ensley, Nancy Ferrell, Silke Hansen, Ed Howden, Bob Hughes, Ernest Jones, Julian Klugman, Efrain Martinez, Werner Petterson, Wilbur Reed, Rinaldo Rivera, Richard Salem, Manuel Salinas, Ozell Sutton, Stephen Thom, Martin Walsh, Wallace Warfield Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights Subjects:African American civil rights workers Genres:Interviews |
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