The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Victoria Adams

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Victoria Adams

7/19/2004; 10/12/2004

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2004.098

Civil rights activist Victoria Adams (1926 - 2006 ) was influential as a voting rights activist and national spokesperson for the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party (MFDP). Adams was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 7/19/2004 and 10/12/2004, in Petersburg, Virginia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 15; Total Run Time: 06h 59m 38s

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Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006

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African American native of Hattiesburg, Miss. who served as a Field Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1964 on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ticket, was one of the leaders of the Congressional challenge to the Democratic representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives, member of the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and a lifelong human rights activist. From the descrip...