An oral history with Umoja Kwanguvu, 1999 June 8. c2000.

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An oral history with Umoja Kwanguvu, 1999 June 8. c2000.

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Discusses Kwanguvu's experiences and protests in Birmingham, Alabama and his interactions with his students in Georgia and New York. Describes his involvement in civil rights demonstrations, including objections to bus segregation, picketing in Birmingham, March on Washington, attempts to integrate the Hattiesburg Walgreen's and the public library. He participated in the Hattiesburg Freedom Summer and attended the 1964 Democratic Convention with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

43 p. ; 28 cm.

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

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

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Kwanguvu, Umoja, 1925-

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Umoja Kwanguvu, born William DeVaughn Jones, grew up in Birmingham, Ala. In the 1940s and 1950s, he served briefly in the Army and Air Force before earning his English degree from Miles College. Throughout his life, he has been sensitive to and enraged by racial inequality. In the early 1960s, he participated in the March on Washington and the Hattiesburg Freedom Summer. Kwanguvu taught in Georgia, Alabama, and New York before retiring from an administrative position at LaGuardia Community Colle...