Meg Redden oral history interview, 1996.

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Meg Redden oral history interview, 1996.

Redden discusses her early views on American race relations, joining CORE, her work on voter registration issues in Louisiana, race relations in Louisiana, and the aims of the wider civil rights movement.

1 sound cassette (45 minutes);Transcript (31 leaves)

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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...

Redden, Meg, 1944-

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Meg Redden was born in Indiana in 1944 but grew up in Iowa. She joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1964 and worked on the freedom movements in Louisiana that summer. She later became involved in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and the Equal Rights Movement. From the description of Meg Redden oral history interview, 1996. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 76173775 ...

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

de Jong, Greta

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