Civil Rights History Project collection

Daniels, Jonathan Myrick, 1939-1965

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Jonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20, 1939 – August 20, 1965) was a civil rights activist. In 1965, he was killed by a special county deputy, Tom Coleman, in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales....

Avery, Anne Pearl, 1943-

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Annie Pearl Avery was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with relatives. When she moved back to Birmingham, Alabama, she was no longer used to segregation. Eventually Avery became SNCC’s project director for the voter registration effort in Hale County, Alabama. After working with SNCC, Avery never abandoned her commitment to civil rights struggle....

Ladner, Joyce Ann, 1943-

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Sociologist Joyce Ladner was born in Battles, Mississippi, on October 12, 1943. She attended Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, where she earned her B.A. in sociology in 1964 and went on to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, to earn a Ph.D. in 1968.At school, she also became involved in the civil rights movement. After earning her Ph.D., Ladner went on to teach at colleges in Illinois; Washington, D.C.; Connecticut; and Tanzania. Ladner published her first book in 1971,Tomorro...

Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah, 1944-

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Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is an assistant professor of religion at the University of Florida. She is a civil rights activist, serving as a member of both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Nation of Islam (NOI)....

Sherrod, Charles, 1937-

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Charles M. Sherrod, minister, civil rights activist, and field director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. From the description of Charles M. Sherrod papers, 1961-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476538 Student. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Sherrod : oral history, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684134 ...

McDew, Charles

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Congress of Racial Equality

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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party created in 1964 as a branch of the populist Freedom Democratic organization in the state of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. It was organized by African Americans and whites from Mississippi to challenge the established power of the Mississippi Democratic Party, which at the time allowed participation only by whites, when African-Americans made up 40% of...

Cleaver, Kathleen, 1945-

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Kathleen Neal Cleaver was born in Dallas, Texas and spent much of her childhood living abroad with her family due to her father’s position in the Foreign Service. After the family returned to the United States, she attended a Quaker boarding school and later attended Oberlin College and Barnard College. Her activism began when she left college to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in New York City. She organized a student conference at Fisk University, and at this conf...

Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi....

Adams-Johnson, Frankye

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Frankye Adams-Johnson was born in Pocahontas, Mississippi to a sharecropper family. When she was seventeen years old, she became involved in the NAACP Youth Council after learning of civil rights protests occurring in nearby Jackson, Mississippi, which included lunch counter sit-ins. She participated in numerous civil rights events and marches, including a walk-out of her high school to support the sit-ins that she helped organize. In the summer of 1964, she was selected to attend the pre-freshm...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972

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Esau Jenkins was born and raised on Johns Island, S.C. in 1910 and lived most of his life there. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader. Jenkins founded the Progressive Club in 1948, which encouraged local African Americans to register to vote, through the aid of Citizenship Schools, a topic he was educated in by his attendance at Highlander Folk Center in Tennessee. In 1959, he organized the Citizens' Committee of Charleston County dedicated to the ec...

Carawan, Guy

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Guy and Candie Carawan, both natives of California, met in 1960 at the Highlander Folk School (now the Highland Research and Education Center) in New Market, Tenn., as participants in the civil rights movement. Married shortly thereafter, the Carawans have since been active as collectors of folklore and folk music, singers, musicians, educators, and socio-political activists. They are best known for their efforts to document and disseminate music associated with the civil rights mo...

Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014

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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. As a member of the Weavers, Seeger was often heard on the radio in the early 1950s, most notably on their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene". In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have ...

Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress - and for putting up a suitable apartment for containing them therein…" The original library was housed in the Washington, DC until August 1814, ...

Library of Congress. American Folklife Center

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The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to "preserve and present American folklife" through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibitions, publications, and training. Designated by the U.S. Congress as the national center for folklife documentation and research, the American Folklife Center continues to collect and document living traditional culture, while preserving for the future its unparalleled coll...

Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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Civil rights activist, state representative, and state senator Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his family moved to Pennsylvania, where his father, Horace Mann Bond, was appointed president of Lincoln University.In 1957, Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and entered Morehouse College. In 1960, Julian Bond was one of several hundred students who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit...

Ladner, Doris Ann, 1942-

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Civil rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner was born on June 28, 1942, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. As an adolescent, she became involved in the NAACP Youth Chapter where Clyde Kennard served as advisor. Ladner got involved in the Civil Rights Movement and wanted to be an activist after hearing about the murder of Emmitt Till. After graduating from Earl Travillion High School as salutatorian, alongside her sister, Joyce Ladner, she went on to enroll at Jackson State University. Dedicated to the fight...

Ackerman, Satoko Ito, 1939-

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Sobol, Anne Buxton, interviewee.

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Hildreth, Marilyn Luper, 1947-

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Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (Cambridge, Md.)

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National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

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On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the civil rights movement, and to record new interviews with people who participated in the movement. The...

Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)

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Bishop, John Melville, cinematographer.

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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)

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Taylor, Kieran Walsh, interviewer.

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Derby, Doris Adelaide, 1939-2002

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Doris Adelaide Derby (1939-2014) was an African American civil rights activist, photographer, and educator. Derby spent her early life in New York City and attended Hunter College. She became involved in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s and joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1963, Derby moved to Mississippi to teach in an adult literacy program run by SNCC at Tougaloo College in Jackson. At Tougaloo College she co-founded the Free Southern Theater, a comm...

Hicks, Gregory Vincent, 1950-

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Newark Community Union Project (N.J.)

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The Newark Community Union project was part of Students for a Democratic Society's Economic Research and Action Project, established in 1964 to build a radical political movement of the impoverished by organizing the poor around neighborhood issues in order to lead them to a broader understanding of power relations in the United States. From the description of Oral history transcripts. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 478895283 ...

Roxborough, Mildred Bond, 1926-

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NAACP executive Mildred Bond Roxborough was born on June 30, 1926, in Brownsville, Tennessee, one of three daughters of college sweethearts Ollie and Mattye Tollette Bond. Roxborough's family background included a tradition of African American empowerment; her mother's family founded Tollette, Arkansas, which was a post-Reconstruction, all-African American town, while her own parents chartered Brownsville, Tennesee's first chapter of the NAACP. At the age of nine, Roxborough began selling subscr...

Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza, interviewee.

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Collins, Barbara Maria, 1947-

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Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette, interviewee.

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Black People's Unity Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Anderson, William G., 1927-

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Vivian, C. T., interviewee.

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Reverend C. T. Vivian was born Cordy Tindell Vivian on July 30, 1924 in Howard County, Missouri. As a small boy he migrated with his mother to Macomb, Illinois, where he attended Lincoln Grade School and Edison Junior High School. Vivian graduated from Macomb High School in 1942 and went on to attend Western Illinois University in Macomb, where he worked as the sports editor for the school newspaper.His first professional job was recreation director for the Carver Community Center in Peoria, Ill...

N.S.M Freedom Library

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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

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Parker, Wheeler, 1939-

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Sales, Ruby Nell, 1948-

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Ruby Sales, born in Jemison, Alabama, on July 8, 1948, suffered many hardships during the civil rights movement but was not disparaged. She has spent her adult life working in philanthropic endeavors.While studying at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Sales became involved with the state's Freedom Summer voter registration drive. One afternoon, as she and Jonathan Daniels, a white seminarian, stood in line at a corner store, a man shot and killed Daniels for standing behind Sales in line. Unner...

Williams, Cecil J., 1937-

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Paysour, LaFleur, interviewer.

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Deacons for Defense and Justice

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Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer.

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Citizenship Education Program

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Richardson, Gloria, 1922-2021

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Gloria Richardson was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Howard University and was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Richardson participated in the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and in 1962, she organized and lead the Cambridge Movement in Maryland. This movement was a years-long series of sit-ins in movie theaters, bowling alleys, and restaurants to desegregate them, and promoted voter registration and equal job opportunities. The Movement w...

Sobol, Richard B., interviewee.

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Harambee Singers

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Branch, Taylor, interviewer.

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Hopkins, Evans D., 1954-

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Cotton, Dorothy F., 1930-

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Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.)

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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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Mississippi Freedom Project

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Crown Zellerbach Corporation

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The Crown Zellerbach Corporation was formed in 1928 by the merger of the Zellerbach Paper Company and Crown Willamette Paper Company, both of which had been formed by the mergers of several other companies and their predecessors. In addition, various companies and their subsidiaries were purchased or formed after the 1928 merger, culminating with the acquisition of Crown Zellerbach Corporation by the James River Corporation in 1985. From the description of Crown Zellerbach Corporatio...

Federation of Southern Cooperatives

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Terry, Esther M. A., 1939-

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Jones, James Oscar, 1943-

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Southern Oral History Program

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The Southern Oral History Program collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to a variety of fields and interviews that will render historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources. From the description of Southern communities: Listening for a change: Tobacco, history, and memory: Storytelling and cultural grieving in eastern North Carolina, 1998-1999 (Abstract K.5). WorldCat record id: 49820098 Fro...

Ackerman, David M., interviewee.

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Gaither, Thomas Walter, 1938-

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Lowery, Joseph E., interviewee.

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Outspoken civil rights activist the Reverend Joseph Lowery was born on October 6, 1921, in Huntsville, Alabama. Considered the dean of the Civil Rights Movement, Lowery began his education in Huntsville, spending his middle school years in Chicago before returning to Huntsville to complete high school. From there, Lowery attended Knoxville College, Payne College and Theological Seminary, and the Chicago Ecumenical Institute. Lowery earned his doctorate of divinity as well.Lowery began his work w...

Bassett, Priscilla, 1928-

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Hicks, Robert, 1929-2010

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Anderson, Fletcher, 1938-

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Hansen, Bill, 1939-

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Hicks, Robert Lawrence, 1948-

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Hicks, Valeria Payton

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Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)

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Purpose of organization was to recruit health care personnel and supplies for civil rights workers who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and for local black residents. From the description of Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) records, 1964-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122532014 From the guide to the Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) records, 1964-1966, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, M...

Churchville, John Elliott, interviewee.

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Carter, Robert L., 1917-2012

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Civil rights lawyer and judge. Full name: Robert Lee Carter. From the description of Robert L. Carter papers, 1941-2006 (bulk 1969-2004). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81804938 Civil rights lawyer and judge; b. Robert Lee Carter. From the description of Papers, 1960-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149444 Biographical Note 1917, Mar. 11 Born,...

Free Southern Theater

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Sullivan, Patricia, 1950-....

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Patricia Sullivan (1950- ), educator, graduated with her Ph. D. in History from Emory University in 1983. She taught at the University of Virginia (1985-1994) and was a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University (1995-2003). She currently teaches at the University of South Carolina (2003- ). She has also served as assistant director (1985-1994) of the Center for the Study of Civil Rights at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, Charlottesville, ...

Jackson, Gertrude Newsome, 1923-

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Strickland, William, 1937-

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Wright, Simeon, 1942-

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Till, Emmett, 1941-1955

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Emmett Till was born in Chicago, Illinois to Louis Till (February 7, 1922-July 2, 1945) and Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan, November 23, 1921-January 6, 2003). In the summer of 1955 Emmett took a vacation to visit relatives near Money in the Mississippi Delta region, and help them with the cotton harvest. While there, he was accused of harassing a local white woman. A few days later, August 28, 1955, Emmett was abducted at gunpoint, brutally beaten, mutilated, and even...

Reece, Dwandalyn R., interviewer.

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Northern Student Movement

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The Northern Student Movement (NSM) was a twentieth-century American civil rights group. Their mission was to support the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South and to challenge racial discrimination in the North. Peter Countryman, a white Yale undergraduate, founded the NSM in the fall of 1961. Community projects and tutoring in segregated and impoverished areas in northern cities were a strong focus of the group. These efforts provided Black students with bet...

Sherrod, Shirley, 1948-

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Cox, Courtland, 1941-

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Vickers, Barbara Edna, 1923-

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Howard University. Nonviolent Action Group

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Saunders, William, 1935-

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Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.)

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Hicks, Charles Ray, 1945-

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Hicks, Valeria Payton

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council

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Luper, Clara

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Luper, Calvin, 1946-

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Newson, Moses J., 1927-

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Hamilton, Audrey Nell, interviewee.

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Breaux, Toni, 1947-

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Finney, Ernest A. (Ernest Adolphus), 1931-

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Bennett, Geraldine Crawford, interviewee.

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Anderson, Cynthia Baker, interviewee.

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Jenkins, Willie Elliot, 1952-

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Burras, Carol Cummings, 1945-

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Bogalusa Voters League

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Greenberg, Jack, 1924-....

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Lawyer. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Greenberg, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309731484 ...

Till-Mobley, Mamie, -2003

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Hutchings, Phil, 1942-

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Jones, Jamila, 1944-

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Moore, William Lewis, 1927-1963

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Ulmer, JoeAnn Anderson, interviewee.

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Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012

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Lawrence Guyot, born in 1939, was a civil rights voting registration activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary. He was also the chairman and delegate of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City but was incarcerated while picketing in Hattiesburg. From the description of An oral history with Mr. Lawrence Guyot, 1996 Sept. 7. 1997. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat recor...

Booker, Simeon, 1918-

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Magazine and newspaper reporter Simeon Saunders Booker, Jr. was born on August 27, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland to Roberta Waring and Simeon Saunders Booker, Sr., a YMCA director and minister. After his family moved to Youngstown, Ohio, Booker became interested in journalism through a family friend, Carl Murphy, the owner and operator of Baltimore'sThe Afro American Newspapers. In 1942, after receiving his B.A. degree in English from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Booker took a job at th...

Hayling, Robert Bagner, interviewee.

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Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James), 1921-2011

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Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)

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Grinage, Ben

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Patton, Gwendolyn Marie, 1943-2017

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Gwendolyn Marie Patton was born on October 14, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan to Jeanetta and Clarence Patton. After the death of her mother in 1957, Gwendolyn and her siblings moved to Montgomery, Alabama. She attended George Washington Carver High School and graduated in 1961 with academic honors. She went on to receive her B.A. degree in English and history from Tuskegee Institute in 1966.Patton coined the phrase "scholar-activist" and urged students to work in the community for social, political ...

Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)

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Recordings (1954-1960) of folk music and of workshops on leadership, integration and voter registration conducted by the school, including a 1956 integration workshop with comments by Rosa Parks on Martin Luther King and the Montgomery bus boycott. Included are performances by Folk School students, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, Jack Elliott, Frank Hamilton, and May Justus. Also, a radio interview (ca. 1960) with Septima Clark and school founder Myles Horton. From the desc...

Hrabowski, Freeman A., interviewee.

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Paving the way for African Americans of the future, Freeman Hrabowski III was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 13, 1950. After graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, Hrabowski went on to attend the Hampton Institute and spent a year studying at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. After earning his B.A. in mathematics in 1970, Hrabowski attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning an M.A. in 1971 and a Ph.D. in higher education administration in 1975.Gro...

Williams, Junius W., 1943-

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Lawyer Junius Williams was born on December 23, 1943 in Suffolk, Virginia. Williams graduated from Armstrong High School in Richmond, Virginia. He earned his B.A. degree from Amherst College in 1965, and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1968.While attending law school, Williams spent his summers living in Newark, New Jersey to work with the Newark Community Union Project. Following his graduation from Yale Law School, Williams moved to Newark to help rebuild the city after the riots of 19...

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a national organization organized in chapters and affiliates that works for human rights across the world. It played a prominent role in the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King, Jr. Origins of the SCLC can be traced back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 5 December 1955 after which leaders of civil rights groups met in Atlanta on 10-11 January 1957 to form ...

Hicks, Darryl Robertson, interviewee.

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Jenkins, Gayle, - 2002

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Carawan, Candie, interviewee.

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Conway, Purcell Maurice, 1948-

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Mississippi Freedom Schools

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Young, Carrie Lamar, 1948-

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Moldovan, Alfred, 1921-

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Montgomery gospel trio

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Bassett, Emmett W., 1921-

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