An oral history with Sheila Shiki y Kessler Michaels, 1999 June 5. c2000.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

An oral history with Sheila Shiki y Kessler Michaels, 1999 June 5. c2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46317623

Discusses her childhood in St. Louis and the Bronx, the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, her time at William and Mary, her involvement in CORE, SNCC, and COFO. Explains her work with John Lewis and his Washington speech, her relations with other civil rights workers and her experiences in Hattiesburg with Freedom Schools.

31 p. ; 28 cm.

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7562803

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f9js6 (corporateBody)

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....

Mississippi Freedom Project

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rv51dz (corporateBody)

Bolton, Charles C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx19v3 (person)

Michaels, Sheila Shiki y Kessler, 1939-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c335j (person)

Reared in St. Louis, Missouri, Sheila Michaels worked for both the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Jackson, Mississippi, around 1962. During Freedom Summer in 1964, she was project manager of the Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations' Hattiesburg Project. From the description of Michaels (Sheila) papers, 1960-2001 (bulk 1962-1964). (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 55128318 She...

Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61p2twc (corporateBody)