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Joseph Howell and Embry Howell oral history interview conducted by David Cline in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 13

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Title

  • Joseph Howell and Embry Howell oral history interview conducted by David Cline in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 13

Summary

  • Joseph and Embry Howell recall the summer of 1966 in Southern Georgia. Recruited by Charlie Sherrod of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) they discuss the complexities they encountered from embodying a white identity, most significantly through their experience of living with a black family in the South. They emphasize how changing racial perception and power influenced a shift in SNCC's tactic of nonviolence, ultimately leading to greater forms of militancy under ideologies of Black Power. In spite of the complicated nature of navigating racial tension, they remained committed to working with voting registration activities, organizing efforts, and the Head Start program and were guided by the belief of helping others.

Names

  • Howell, Embry, interviewee
  • Howell, Joseph T., interviewee
  • Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
  • Bishop, John Melville, videographer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2015.

Headings

  • -  Howell, Embry--Interviews
  • -  Howell, Joseph T.--Interviews
  • -  Carmichael, Stokely,--1941-1998
  • -  Lewis, John,--1940 February 21
  • -  Lowenstein, Allard K
  • -  Sherrod, Charles,--1937
  • -  Davidson College--History
  • -  Student Interracial Ministry
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  Black power--United States
  • -  Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Charlotte
  • -  Civil rights movements--Georgia
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Civil rights workers--United States--Interviews
  • -  Head Start programs--Georgia
  • -  Women civil rights workers--United States--Interviews

Genre

  • Personal narratives
  • Filmed interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Washington, District of Columbia, on December 13, 2015.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0133), 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.).
  • -  Embry Howell was born in 1945 in Bethesda, Maryland. She grew up in Davidson, North Carolina and attended Davidson College before transferring to Barnard College. She later attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina. She earned a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Washington University. She has had a long career as a health policy researcher, primarily at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. She worked for SNCC in Southwest Georgia during the summer of 1966.
  • -  Joseph Howell was born in 1942 in the suburb of Belle Meade in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1964 while a student Davidson College, he organized a civil rights march in Charlotte. He went on to attend Union Theological Seminary and the University of North Carolina where he earned a planning degree. He worked for SNCC in Southwest Georgia during the summer of 1966. He is the author of "Civil Rights Journey" which details his experience working with the civil rights movement.
  • -  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

  • 6 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (1:26:38) : digital, sound, color.
  • transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0133

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016655424

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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:

Howell, Embry, Interviewee, Joseph T Howell, David P Cline, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Joseph Howell and Embry Howell oral history interview conducted by David Cline in Washington, District of Columbia. 2015. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655424/.

APA citation style:

Howell, E., Howell, J. T., Cline, D. P., Bishop, J. M. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2015) Joseph Howell and Embry Howell oral history interview conducted by David Cline in Washington, District of Columbia. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655424/.

MLA citation style:

Howell, Embry, Interviewee, et al. Joseph Howell and Embry Howell oral history interview conducted by David Cline in Washington, District of Columbia. 2015. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016655424/>.