The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Hellen O'Neal-McCray

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Hellen O'Neal-McCray

3/21/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2006.046

Civil rights activist and high school teacher Hellen O'Neal-McCray (1941 - 2010 ) taught African American literature and composition at Wilberforce University. She was a staff member with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, taught in a Freedom School in Mccomb, Mississippi and worked for the National Sharecroppers Fund in Atlanta, Georgia. O'Neal-McCray was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 3/21/2006, in Wilberforce, Ohio. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 41m 22s

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McCray, Hellen O'Neal,

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Civil rights volunteer, Hellen Jean O'Neal-McCray was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi on March 4, 1941 to Willie Long Anderson and Lester Calvin O'Neal. She attended Immaculate Conception School, Myrtle Hall Colored School and Holy Rosary School in Lafayette, Louisiana. Keeping up with current events, O'Neal-McCray knew activist druggist "Doc" Aaron Henry and read theChicago Defender. A member of the school band, she graduated from W.A. Higgins High School in Clarksdale in 1959.In 1961, O'Neal-M...