The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Oral history project

Repository: Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Collection Description (CRHP): Many interviewees discuss their involvement in the civil rights movement in Dallas. These interviews can be browsed by selecting "civil rights movement" under "Interview topics" on the website.

Collection Description (Extant): The Oral History Collection includes personal memories about the life, death and legacy of President Kennedy and provides insight into the history and culture of Dallas and the 1960s. Nearly 800 interviews with a wide variety of participants have been recorded since 1989.

Collection URL: http://www.jfk.org/go/collections/oral-histories

Date(s): 1999-

Digital Status: Partial

Language: English

Interviewees: Rev. Earl Allen, Rev. Wilfred Bailey, Mavis Belisle, Joanne Bland, Clarence Broadnax, Carroll Brown, Gloria Brown, Earnestine Cole, George Crawford, Jeannette Crawford, Carolyn Dennis, Robert Folsom, Jody Furnish, Mary Greene, Edward Harris, Princella Hartman, Bishop Mark Herbener, Rev. Peter Johnson, J. Erik Jonsson, Katherine Kendrick, Glenn M. Linden, Lois Louise, Al Maddox, Alphonse C. Matthews, Soundra McDuff, Frances McElvaney, Rev. Bill McElvaney, Ernest McMillan, Eva McMillan, Lu Mitchell, Valda H. Montgomery, Darwin Payne, Ralph H. Poteet, Bob Ray Sanders, Jan Sanders, Ruth Sanders, Jimmie Travis, Harold Vaughan, Mary Vogelson, Ronald Wilson

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers--Texas
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings
Videorecordings