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Film, VideoRuby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 25. 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 Montgomery March, registering voters in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her arrest in Hayneville, Alabama. She remembers the murder of Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student who saved her life, and discusses her opinions on African American...
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Sales, Ruby
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoDoris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 26. Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and dance, and traveling to Albany, Georgia, to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with voter registration. She remembers teaching adult literacy in Mississippi with SNCC, starting the Free Southern Theater,...
- Contributor: Derby, Doris Adelaide - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoJamila Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 27. Jamila Jones recalls participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a child and forming a singing group at age 11, the Montgomery Gospel Trio, to raise money for the Civil Rights Movement. She recalls helping the Freedom Riders, visiting the Highlander Folk Center, writing a new verse of the song "We Shall Overcome," and founding the Harambee Singers.
- Contributor: Jones, Jamila - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoSimeon Wright oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, 2011 May 23. Simeon Wright discusses his cousin, Emmett Till, and his attempts to correct the historical record concerning Till's murder. He recalls Till's visit to his home in Mississippi, going to Bryant's store, and the night that Till was kidnapped. He remembers the trial, moving to Chicago, and how the murder and publicity affected his family.
- Contributor: Wright, Simeon - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoWheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, 2011 May 23. Wheeler Parker, Jr., discusses his visit to Mississippi with his cousin, Emmett Till. He recalls the incident at Bryant's store and the night that Till was kidnapped, and Till's funeral in Chicago. He remembers how the murder and publicity affected his family, the reopening of the case in 2004, and efforts to memorialize Till.
- Contributor: Parker, Wheeler - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoMarilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24. Marilyn Hildreth describes growing up in segregated Oklahoma and the leadership of her mother, Clara Luper, in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group. She recalls participating in a drug store sit-in as a child, and the success the group had with several restaurants in Oklahoma City. She remembers her mother's leadership in the African American community in...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoCalvin Luper oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24. Calvin Luper remembers his mother, Clara Luper, and her leadership in Oklahoma City's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council. He recalls participating in sit-ins in drug stores and restaurants, and hosting a radio show with his mother. He also remembers other leaders in Oklahoma's civil rights movement, including Dr. Charles N. Atkins, E. Melvin Porter, and Ada Lois Sipuel.
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Luper, Calvin - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoJames Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Austin, Texas, 2011 May 25. 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 discusses his involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and meeting activists Bill Hansen and Ben Grinage. He recalls participating in sit-ins at Woolworth's drug store in Pine Bluff, and...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Jones, James Oscar
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoRichard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26.
Anne Sobol and Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26 Richard Sobol discusses his early career as a lawyer in Washington, D. C., his involvement with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, and his decision to move to New Orleans to become a civil rights lawyer. He recalls meeting Robert Hicks of Bogalusa, Louisiana, being personally protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice, and his involvement in many job discrimination cases brought against the...- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Sobol, Richard - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Sobol, Anne Buxton
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoCynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011 May 27. Cynthia and Fletcher Anderson remember the segregation and job discrimination they faced in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their decision to join the Civil Rights Movement. Fletcher recalls working many different jobs at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill, the harassment of the police and Ku Klux Klan, and joining the Deacons of Defense and Justice. They discuss their job discrimination lawsuits, their friends involved in the...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Anderson, Fletcher - Anderson, Cynthia Baker
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoHicks family oral history interview in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011 May 27. The Hicks family remembers their childhood in segregated Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their father, Robert Hicks, a local civil rights leader. They recall leading a children's civil rights march in Bogalusa to protest discrimination at Woolworth's, hosting two white civil rights workers, Bill Yates and Steve Miller, and being protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice.
- Contributor: Hicks, Charles Ray - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Collins, Barbara Maria - Hicks, Valeria Payton - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Burras, Carol Cummings - Hicks, Darryl Robertson
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoGeraldine Crawford Bennett, Toni Breaux, and Willie Elliot Jenkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011 May 28. Geraldine Crawford Bennett, Toni Breaux, and Willie Elliot Jenkins remember their mother and sister Gayle Jenkins, a leader of the civil rights movement in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They discuss their family history, how the family became involved in the movement, and Willie Jenkins' court case to integrate the public schools. They recall being protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice, marching in local rallies,...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Breaux, Toni - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Mosnier, Joseph - Jenkins, Willie Elliot
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoAnnie Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Selma, Alabama, 2011 May 31. Annie Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeting in Atlanta and being stranded and threatened in Marietta, Georgia, on the way home. She discusses her involvement in the Albany Movement, her many arrests for protesting, marching with William Moore, and participating in voter...
- Contributor: Avery, Annie Pearl - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoGwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama, 2011 June 01. 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 in 1961, and spending a year in a segregated sanitarium when she had tuberculosis. She recounts organizing Tuskegee students for the Selma to Montgomery March, occupying the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and registering voters in Lowndes...
- Contributor: Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoCharles F. McDew oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011 June 04. Charles McDew recalls growing up in Massillon, Ohio, his family's involvement in the steel mill unions and attending South Carolina State University. He remembers being arrested three times in two days for not obeying segregation laws in South Carolina, founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and registering voters in Mississippi.
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - McDew, Charles
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoCharles Melvin Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011 June 04. Charles Sherrod recalls how he became involved in the Albany Movement in Georgia, recruited local residents, and led marches and protests against segregation.
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Sherrod, Charles
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoJoseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 June 06. Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the differences in race relations between Mobile and other southern cities, and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He reflects on the effectiveness of nonviolence, the libel suit against him,...
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Lowery, Joseph E.
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoMatthew J. Perry oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Columbia, South Carolina, 2011 June 07. Judge Matthew J. Perry recalls serving in the military during World War II, and experiencing discrimination during the war. He remembers watching a trial that inspired him to go to the newly formed law school at South Carolina State College. He discusses his start as a trial lawyer in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the famous civil rights cases he argued, joining the NAACP Legal Defense...
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoErnest Adolphus Finney oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Columbia, South Carolina, 2011 June 08. Ernest Finney recalls his father's teaching career and attending law school at South Carolina State College. He remembers defending the "Friendship Nine," a group of college students who protested segregation in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He discusses joining the South Carolina Human Rights Commission, serving as a state representative, and his election to the State Supreme Court.
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Finney, Ernest A., (Ernest Adolphus)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoCecil J. Williams oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Orangeburg, South Carolina, 2011 June 09. Cecil J. Williams remembers his childhood in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and starting his career as a photographer for several African American publications in his teens. He remembers photographing President Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, and other civil rights leaders. He also discusses the Briggs v. Elliot school desegregation case, and his photographs of the Orangeburg Massacre.
- Contributor: Williams, Cecil J. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoEsther M. A. Terry oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Greensboro, North Carolina, 2011 July 06. Esther M. A. Terry remembers growing up in Wise, North Carolina, and attending Bennett College. She recalls planning the Greensboro Woolworth's sit-in with students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (later North Carolina A & T University), being arrested for her participation, and the support of the Bennett College President, Dr. Willa Player. She also discusses attending the University of North...
- Contributor: Terry, Esther M. A. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoEvans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Richmond, Virginia, 2011 July 07. Evans Hopkins recalls growing up in Danville, Virginia, and participating in efforts to desegregate public schools and the library. He remembers joining the Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Oakland, California, and working on Bobby Seale's campaign for Mayor of Oakland. He also discusses his imprisonment for car theft and the high rate of incarceration among African American men.
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Hopkins, Evans D.
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoCourtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011 July 08. 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 merged with other groups to become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses the March on Washington, the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, changes in SNCC, and attending the Sixth...
- Contributor: Cox, Courtland - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoSimeon Booker and Moses James Newson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011 July 13. 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, Arkansas, for the Memphis Tri-State Defender. Booker discusses covering the Emmett Till murder and the integration of Little Rock High School for Jet. They both remember covering the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington.
- Contributor: Booker, Simeon - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Newson, Moses J.
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoFreeman A. Hrabowski oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Baltimore, Maryland, 2011 August 14. Freeman A. Hrabowski recalls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attending the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church. He remembers being arrested for marching in the Birmingham Children's Crusade in 1963, and remembers the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. He also discusses attending Hampton University and later starting the Meyerhoff Scholars Program for African American men studying math and science.
- Contributor: Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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