A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 12, 1997 with Winifred Green (born 1937). After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Millsaps College in 1963, Mrs. Green and four other women formed Mississippians for Public Education, one...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document about the experiences of Jill Wakeman (Goodman) during her stay in Mississippi in the summer of 1966, including her motives for going to Mississippi and the civil rights work she did there. Describes Mount...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Comments by Stokely Carmichael on the history and goals of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and how they intersect with Carmichael's philosophy of Black power. The document...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Reprint of Stokely Carmichael's article, What we want, which had been published in The New York Review of Books. Carmichael discusses Black power, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is an early draft of one of Michael Miller's letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; In an article for The Southern Patriot, Anne Braden notes the confusion of the community and the media over the meaning of the phrase "black power." She clarifies the meaning and usage of the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Michael Miller's letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and clarifies the phrase's meaning and usage...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Musings on forces impacting SNCC from within and without, including political pressure, the rising black power movement, and internal intellectual ferment.