The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Curtis McClinton, Sr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Curtis McClinton, Sr.

8/28/2002

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.164

State senator The Honorable Curtis McClinton, Sr. (1913 - 2012 ) is a former Kansas state legislator who passed the first civil rights act in twentieth-century Kansas. McClinton also holds the honor of being Kansas' first African American state senator. McClinton was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 8/28/2002, in Wichita, Kansas. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 15m 27s

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McClinton, Curtis R., 1913-

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Political activist Curtis McClinton was born in Braggs, Oklahoma, in 1913. He credits his father with exposing him at a young age to ideas of community and responsibility. The political rallies and courtroom proceedings McClinton attended as a young boy ignited within him an awareness of democracy, change and civic participation. McClinton experienced first hand the inequitable conditions of segregated schooling. He attended a segregated elementary school in Poteau and graduated from the segrega...