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The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

2008-2010

https://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=2082

This collection includes interviews with African Americans Howard Peters (Governor Jim Edgars series), who grew up in Memphis and became Director of Corrections and later Secretary of Human Services in Illinois; Emil Jones (Legislators series), long-time Illinois Senator and social justice/fair education advocate; Beverly Helm-Renfro (General Interest series), who describes her parents' activism in Springfield, Illinois, and her experiences as Senator Barack Obama's secretary.

sound discs digital (CD) 4 3/4 in. (WAV44 kHz 16 bit), mp3, digital video, transcripts

eng, Latn

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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