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Film, Video John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland, 2013 June 28

John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland, 2013 June 28

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Title

  • John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland, 2013 June 28

Summary

  • 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 staging a school-wide walkout and march without the assistance of any adults. They also discuss their lives since high school.

Names

  • Dove, Samuel, 1942- interviewee
  • Dudley, John F., 1933- interviewee
  • Jarmon, Charles, interviewee
  • Stewart, Eleanor, 1938- interviewee
  • Suggs, Frances L., 1935- interviewee
  • Suggs, Harold, 1935- interviewee
  • Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Dove, Samuel,--1942---Interviews
  • -  Dudley, John F.,--1933---Interviews
  • -  Jarmon, Charles--Interviews
  • -  Stewart, Eleanor,--1938---Interviews
  • -  Suggs, Frances L.,--1935---Interviews
  • -  Suggs, Harold,--1935---Interviews
  • -  African American high school students--North Carolina--Kinston
  • -  Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Kinston
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Discrimination in education--North Carolina--Kinston

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Hyattsville, Maryland, on June 28, 2013.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
  • -  Charles Jarmon participated in the Adkin High School walkout of 1951 in Kinston, North Carolina. He later became a professor of sociology and associate dean at Howard University
  • -  Eleanor Stewart participated in the Adkin High School walkout of 1951 in Kinston, North Carolina. She later became a vocalist, conductor, and music teacher in Washington, D.C.
  • -  Frances Suggs participated in the Adkin High School walkout of 1951 in Kinston, North Carolina. She later became a music teacher and manager in Washington, D.C.
  • -  Harold Suggs participated in the Adkin High School walkout of 1951 in Kinston, North Carolina. He later became a businessman and educator in Washington, D.C.
  • -  John Dudley participated in the Adkin High School walkout of 1951 in Kinston, North Carolina. He later worked as a youth home director for the Bureau of Rehabilitation in Washington, D.C.
  • -  Samuel Dove participated in the Adkin High School walkout of 1951 in Kinston, North Carolina. He was also a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
  • -  The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 8 video files of 8 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (153 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (67 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0096

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540 to 4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669195

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  • video

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Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Dove, Samuel, Interviewee, John F Dudley, Charles Jarmon, Eleanor Stewart, Frances L Suggs, Harold Suggs, Emilye Crosby, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669195/.

APA citation style:

Dove, S., Dudley, J. F., Jarmon, C., Stewart, E., Suggs, F. L., Suggs, H. [...] Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669195/.

MLA citation style:

Dove, Samuel, Interviewee, et al. John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669195/>.