Voices Across the Color Line Oral History Project Collection, 2005-2006.

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Atlanta History Center. Kenan Research Center. Voices Across the Color Line Oral History Project Collection, 2005-2006.

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Voices Across the Color Line Oral History Project Collection, 2005-2006.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664732349

Abstract

The bulk of these oral histories deal with the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. Specific events mentioned include the student movement centering on Atlanta University; The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR); creation and publication of the Atlanta Enquirer newspaper; the organization of the Atlanta Committee of Cooperative Action (ACCA), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and activities to desegregate city buses and restaurants. Other topics discussed on the tapes include desegregation of the public schools and libraries and the organization of Help Our Public Education (H.O.P.E.). In addition, the relationship between local activists and Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) are discussed. Among the specific interviews, Pearlie Dove, Robert Edge, John Sibley, Portia Harden Potts, and Muriel Lokey discuss desegregation of Atlanta schools. Lonnie King, Jesse Hill, Alton Hornsby, and Charles Black discuss the activities tied to the Student Movement at Atlanta University. Although the primary focus of the project was the documentation of Atlantans and their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, events in Georgia and the Southeast were also collected. Of particular importance is the discussion of the St. Augustine Movement, a series of demonstrations said to have guaranteed passage and the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Other discussions include work in desegregating educational facilities throughout the country, and discrimination and segregation in the United States Army in the 1950s and 1960s.

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.25 linear ft. (1 miniDV box)

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Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7958286

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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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....

Holmes, Herbert, 1944-

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Lonnie C. King Jr. (August 30, 1936 – March 5, 2019) was an American civil rights leader. Beginning in 1960, he launched the Atlanta Student Movement, wrote the Appeal for Human Rights, and subsequently started the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights. His work led to the desegregation of Atlanta and continued advocacy has brought further education to America regarding present-day racism and the struggles of the civil rights movement....

Black, Charles L., Jr.

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Pendergast, Nan, 1920-

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Hill, Jesse, 1926-

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Jesse Hill of Davidson County, N.C., served under Lieutenant John Pratt, "Hooks" (Robert F. Hoke's) Brigade, 21st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate Army. From the description of Jesse Hill papers, 1864-1865 [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 300939696 Jesse Hill was a member of O.M. Leland's International Boundary Commission parties of 1908 and 1909 in the Unuk, Blue, and Leduc Rivers area of the Coast Mountains. He served as Recorder i...

Smith, John H., 1935-

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Parham, Johnny, 1937-

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Clayton, Xernona

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Wade, Lyndon, 1934-

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Lokey, Muriel, 1922-

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Atlanta University Center (Ga.)

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Glustrom, John

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Warner, Clinton, 1924-

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Dr. Clinton E. Warner, Jr. saw action on the front lines of two of the twentieth century's most transformative struggles. Born in Atlanta on July 11, 1924, Warner fought in World War II and became an active civil rights participant.Warner's post-secondary education was interrupted by the onset of World War II. From 1942 to 1946, he served in the U.S. Army and participated in the D-Day invasion of France that turned the tide of the war in Europe. Warner then returned home to study at Morehouse Co...

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