Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P....
Gloria Claudette Grinnell recounts her participation in the sit-in movement in Richmond, Virginia, when she was a student at Virginia Union University. She describes her family's history on the East Coast and e... More
Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P....
Gloria Claudette Grinnell recounts her participation in the sit-in movement in Richmond, Virginia, when she was a student at Virginia Union University. She describes her family's history on the East Coast and e... More
Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P....
Gloria Claudette Grinnell recounts her participation in the sit-in movement in Richmond, Virginia, when she was a student at Virginia Union University. She describes her family's history on the East Coast and e... More
Scott Bates oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Sewa...
Professor Scott Bates describes his career as an educator and civil rights supporter in Sewanee, Tennessee. He discusses his memories of race relations on U.S. Army bases during World War II, and he describes h... More
Scott Bates oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Sewa...
Professor Scott Bates describes his career as an educator and civil rights supporter in Sewanee, Tennessee. He discusses his memories of race relations on U.S. Army bases during World War II, and he describes h... More
Scott Bates oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Sewa...
Professor Scott Bates describes his career as an educator and civil rights supporter in Sewanee, Tennessee. He discusses his memories of race relations on U.S. Army bases during World War II, and he describes h... More
Conversation with 86 year old black female, Oktibbeha County, Mississi...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mississippi State University. Mississippi State, MS. 86 year old black female. General conversation (much of it about the strange purple chapel near ... More
Oral history with 85 year old white male, Montrose, Colorado (Transcr...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mesa County Public Library. Grand Junction, CO and Museum of Western Colorado. Grand Junction, CO 85 year old white male. Born in Rothamel, Russia, 9... More
Oral history with 85 year old white male, Montrose, Colorado (Transcr...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mesa County Public Library. Grand Junction, CO and Museum of Western Colorado. Grand Junction, CO 85 year old white male. Born in Rothamel, Russia, 9... More
Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silve...
Summary: Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did w... More
Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silve...
Summary: Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did w... More
Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silve...
Summary: Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did w... More
Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silve...
Summary: Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did w... More
Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silve...
Summary: Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did w... More
Grace Miller oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Alban...
Summary: Grace Hall Miller (mother of activist Shirley Sherrod) describes her childhood in Baker County, Georgia, her education in segregated schools, her marriage to Hosie Miller, and their early involvement i... More
Grace Miller oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Alban...
Summary: Grace Hall Miller (mother of activist Shirley Sherrod) describes her childhood in Baker County, Georgia, her education in segregated schools, her marriage to Hosie Miller, and their early involvement i... More
Grace Miller oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Alban...
Summary: Grace Hall Miller (mother of activist Shirley Sherrod) describes her childhood in Baker County, Georgia, her education in segregated schools, her marriage to Hosie Miller, and their early involvement i... More
Simeon Booker and Moses James Newson oral history interview conducted ...
Summary: Simeon Booker and Moses Newson recall their early careers in journalism at several African American newspapers. Newson remembers covering school desegregation cases in Clinton, Tennessee and Hoxie, Ark... More
Simeon Booker and Moses James Newson oral history interview conducted ...
Summary: Simeon Booker and Moses Newson recall their early careers in journalism at several African American newspapers. Newson remembers covering school desegregation cases in Clinton, Tennessee and Hoxie, Ark... More
Simeon Booker and Moses James Newson oral history interview conducted ...
Summary: Simeon Booker and Moses Newson recall their early careers in journalism at several African American newspapers. Newson remembers covering school desegregation cases in Clinton, Tennessee and Hoxie, Ark... More
Gloria Hayes Richardson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mos...
Summary: Gloria Richardson recalls growing up in Cambridge, Maryland, attending Howard University, and joining Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with her daughter, Donna, after returning to Cambr... More
Gloria Hayes Richardson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mos...
Summary: Gloria Richardson recalls growing up in Cambridge, Maryland, attending Howard University, and joining Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with her daughter, Donna, after returning to Cambr... More
Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
Summary: Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders ... More
Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
Summary: Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders ... More
Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
Summary: Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders ... More
Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview...
Priscilla Tietjen Bassett recalls growing up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attending Smith College, and Emmett W. Bassett remembers growing up in Henry County, Virginia, serving in World War II, and attending ... More
Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview...
Priscilla Tietjen Bassett recalls growing up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attending Smith College, and Emmett W. Bassett remembers growing up in Henry County, Virginia, serving in World War II, and attending ... More
Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview...
Priscilla Tietjen Bassett recalls growing up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attending Smith College, and Emmett W. Bassett remembers growing up in Henry County, Virginia, serving in World War II, and attending ... More
Aaron Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seat...
Aaron Dixon describes his childhood in the Midwest and in Seattle and how he became a leader in the Black Panther Party, helping to found the Seattle chapter of the Party. Dixon describes in detail his family h... More
Aaron Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seat...
Aaron Dixon describes his childhood in the Midwest and in Seattle and how he became a leader in the Black Panther Party, helping to found the Seattle chapter of the Party. Dixon describes in detail his family h... More
Aaron Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seat...
Aaron Dixon describes his childhood in the Midwest and in Seattle and how he became a leader in the Black Panther Party, helping to found the Seattle chapter of the Party. Dixon describes in detail his family h... More
Aaron Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seat...
Aaron Dixon describes his childhood in the Midwest and in Seattle and how he became a leader in the Black Panther Party, helping to found the Seattle chapter of the Party. Dixon describes in detail his family h... More
Aaron Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seat...
Aaron Dixon describes his childhood in the Midwest and in Seattle and how he became a leader in the Black Panther Party, helping to found the Seattle chapter of the Party. Dixon describes in detail his family h... More
Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...
Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More
Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...
Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More
Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...
Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More
Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...
Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More
Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...
Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More
Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...
Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More
Samuel Berry McKinney oral history interview conducted by David P. Cli...
Summary: The Reverend Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney recalls growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, and attending Morehouse College, where he got to know fellow freshman Martin Luther King, Jr. After service in the Army Fli... More
Elmer Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seat...
Elmer Dixon discusses his childhood in Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington, where he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., and heard Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader Stokely Carmich... More
Clifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffr...
Clifford Browner discusses his childhood in Sasser, Georgia, and how he came to be involved in the Southwest Georgia Movement for civil rights in the early 1960s. He describes mass meetings at Mount Olive Bapti... More
Clifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffr...
Clifford Browner discusses his childhood in Sasser, Georgia, and how he came to be involved in the Southwest Georgia Movement for civil rights in the early 1960s. He describes mass meetings at Mount Olive Bapti... More
Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...
Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to M... More
Oral history with 54 year old black female, Grand Junction, Colorado; ...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mesa County Public Library. Grand Junction, CO and Museum of Western Colorado. Grand Junction, CO Ms. Dickey - 54 year old black female. Born Christ... More
Oral history with 54 year old black female, Grand Junction, Colorado; ...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mesa County Public Library. Grand Junction, CO and Museum of Western Colorado. Grand Junction, CO Ms. Dickey - 54 year old black female. Born Christ... More
Julia Matilda Burns oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer i...
Julia Matilda Burns describes her experience in segregated schools in Humphreys County, Mississippi, where she grew up. After becoming a teacher at Marshall High School in Belzoni, Mississippi, she began to tak... More
Julia Matilda Burns oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer i...
Julia Matilda Burns describes her experience in segregated schools in Humphreys County, Mississippi, where she grew up. After becoming a teacher at Marshall High School in Belzoni, Mississippi, she began to tak... More
William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath pract... More
William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath pract... More
William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath pract... More
William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath pract... More
William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath pract... More
William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath pract... More
Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur P...
Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in ... More
Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur P...
Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in ... More
Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur P...
Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in ... More
Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur P...
Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in ... More
Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur P...
Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in ... More
Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur P...
Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in ... More
Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur P...
Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in ... More
Robert Bagner Hayling oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...
Robert Hayling recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental pra... More
Robert G. Clark, Jr., oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer...
Robert G. Clark, Jr., describes the early life experiences that led up to his successful campaign for political office in the Mississippi Legislature, where he became the first African American elected since Re... More
Robert G. Clark, Jr., oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer...
Robert G. Clark, Jr., describes the early life experiences that led up to his successful campaign for political office in the Mississippi Legislature, where he became the first African American elected since Re... More
Shirley Miller Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Summary: Shirley Sherrod recalls growing up on a farm in Baker County, Georgia, her father's murder, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She remembers traveling to Washington, D. C... More
Oral history with 80 year old white male, Marked Tree, Arkansas (Trans...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mid-South center for Oral History, Arkansas State University. Jonesboro, AR 80 year old white male. Sharecropping, farming Education. Race relations.... More
Oral history with 80 year old white male, Marked Tree, Arkansas (Trans...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mid-South center for Oral History, Arkansas State University. Jonesboro, AR 80 year old white male. Sharecropping, farming Education. Race relations.... More
Lucius Holloway, Sr., and Emma Kate Holloway oral history interview co...
Summary: In this short interview, Lucius Holloway, Sr., and Emma Kate Holloway describe their experiences in Terrell County, Georgia. They discuss their childhood memories of Southwest Georgia, and how they cam... More
William Saunders oral history interview conducted by Kieran Walsh Tayl...
Summary: William Saunders remembers his childhood on Johns Island, South Carolina, and working with Esau Jenkins, a local civil rights leader. He recalls serving in the army during the Korean War, attending the... More
William Saunders oral history interview conducted by Kieran Walsh Tayl...
Summary: William Saunders remembers his childhood on Johns Island, South Carolina, and working with Esau Jenkins, a local civil rights leader. He recalls serving in the army during the Korean War, attending the... More
William Saunders oral history interview conducted by Kieran Walsh Tayl...
Summary: William Saunders remembers his childhood on Johns Island, South Carolina, and working with Esau Jenkins, a local civil rights leader. He recalls serving in the army during the Korean War, attending the... More
Martha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John ...
Summary: Martha Prescod Norman Noonan describes her childhood in Providence, Rhode Island, and being one of the few black families in the neighborhood. Her parents urged her to attend the University of Michigan... More
Lonnie C. King oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in At...
Summary: Lonnie C. King shares his memories of growing up in Atlanta, where he attended Ebenezer Baptist Church and was close with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family. He recalls hs stint in the U.S. Navy, his yea... More
James Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...
James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, and attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff. He dis... More
James Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...
James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, and attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff. He dis... More
James Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...
James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, and attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff. He dis... More
Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in Wash...
Lawrence Guyot recalls growing up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, and the influence of his family, and attending Tougaloo College. He remembers meeting members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (... More
Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in Wash...
Lawrence Guyot recalls growing up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, and the influence of his family, and attending Tougaloo College. He remembers meeting members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (... More
Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in Wash...
Lawrence Guyot recalls growing up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, and the influence of his family, and attending Tougaloo College. He remembers meeting members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (... More
Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in Wash...
Lawrence Guyot recalls growing up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, and the influence of his family, and attending Tougaloo College. He remembers meeting members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (... More
Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Lo...
Summary: Walter Tillow discusses how he joined the Civil Rights Movement as a college student and how that led him into labor and leftist movements. He describes his childhood in New York City and the leftist p... More
Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Lo...
Summary: Walter Tillow discusses how he joined the Civil Rights Movement as a college student and how that led him into labor and leftist movements. He describes his childhood in New York City and the leftist p... More
Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Lo...
Summary: Walter Tillow discusses how he joined the Civil Rights Movement as a college student and how that led him into labor and leftist movements. He describes his childhood in New York City and the leftist p... More
Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Lo...
Summary: Walter Tillow discusses how he joined the Civil Rights Movement as a college student and how that led him into labor and leftist movements. He describes his childhood in New York City and the leftist p... More
Rosie Head oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Tchula,...
Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and worked on a plantation. She discusses how her parents faced racial discrimination in their work and how they were cheate... More
Rosie Head oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Tchula,...
Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and worked on a plantation. She discusses how her parents faced racial discrimination in their work and how they were cheate... More