Wendell Whalum oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 21.

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Wendell Whalum oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 21.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38727144

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Wendell Whalum on November 21, 1978 in which he discusses Atlanta sit-ins; Appeal for Human Rights; student leaders; influence of Greensboro (N.C.) sit-ins; influence of Dr. Benjamin Mays; academic allowances; Whalum's advice to students; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); growth of civil rights movement; abolition of chapel at Morehouse College; role of parents; non-violence; impact of organization of black leadership; "white flight"; impact of faculty; and initiation of student involvement.

1 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (27 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7406276

Georgia State University

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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....

Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Benjamin E. Mays : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527874 Benjamin E. Mays (1895- ), president of Morehouse College during the Atlanta 1960-1961 sit-ins. From the description of Benjamin Elijah Mays oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 29. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727125 President of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., from 1940...

Fort, Vincent, 1983-

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Whalum, Wendell, 1931-1987.

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Wendell Whalum (1931-1987), music instructor, director of Glee Club, and student body advisor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960-1961 student sit-ins. From the description of Wendell Whalum oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 21. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727144 ...

Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.

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