The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Vincent Harding

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Vincent Harding

4/21/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2006.082

Civil rights activist and theologian Vincent Harding (1931 - 2014 ) was Professor of Religion and Social Transformation at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. A close associate and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Harding was the first director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and was co-founder and chair of the Veterans of Hope Project. Harding was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/21/2006, in Denver, Colorado. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 20m 58s

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Vincent Harding was born in New York City in 1931 and grew up in Harlem and the Bronx. He attended New York City public schools and graduated in History from the City College of New York in 1952. He earned an MS degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1953. Harding married Rosemarie Freeney in 1960, and they spent four years as workers in the freedom movement, assisting the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Congress of Racial Equality ...