Geographers on Film Interview With Ian McHarg
Note: Part of the Geographers on film project of the American Association of Geographers. Color: Black and White Duration: 10 minutes
Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...
Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...
Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More
John and Jean Rosenberg oral history interview conducted by David P. C...
Jean and John Rosenberg begin this interview with recollections of their families' backgrounds. Jean learned about social issues as she was raised by a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, and John's family fled Germ... 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
Evans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...
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,... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
Freeman A. Hrabowski oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...
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 remember... More
Ernest Adolphus Finney oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
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 i... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... 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
Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...
Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... 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
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
Virginia Simms George oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosb...
Virginia Simms George remembers growing up in segregated Newport News, Virginia, attending Virginia Union University, and her desire to become a lawyer. She recalls participating in a protest at Thalhimers depa... More
Freeman A. Hrabowski oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...
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 remember... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview c...
David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, p... More
Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in C...
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... 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
Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Seat...
Summary: Basketball player Bill Russell remembers his childhood in Louisiana and Oakland, California, in the 1940s. After winning two Final Fours with the University of San Francisco, he won an Olympic gold med... More
Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Seat...
Summary: Basketball player Bill Russell remembers his childhood in Louisiana and Oakland, California, in the 1940s. After winning two Final Fours with the University of San Francisco, he won an Olympic gold med... More
Evans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...
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,... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in N...
Jack Greenberg remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other ci... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...
Summary: Barbara Vickers recalls growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, working in a shipyard in New York during World War II, and returning to St. Augustine with her husband. She remembers working as a beautici... 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
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
Evans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...
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,... More
Anne Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in...
Anne 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 meeti... More
Geographers on Film Interview With E. Cotton Mather
Note: Part of the Geographers on film project of the American Association of Geographers. Color: Black and White Duration: 11 minutes
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...
Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More
Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...
Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More
John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mo...
Summary: John Churchville recalls growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother's career as a music teacher, moving to New York, and converting to Islam. He remembers joining the Student Nonviolent Coord... More
Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan oral history interview conducted...
Candie Carawan recalls attending Fisk University as an exchange student and meeting civil rights activists in Nashville, Tennessee. She discusses meeting Guy Carawan at the Highlander Folk School, the importanc... More
Carrie M. Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...
Summary: Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including ... 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
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
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
William Lucy oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Wash...
Summary: William Lucy discusses his role in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in the 1960s, especially how he and the union supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike ... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
Geographers on Film Interview With Walter W. Ristow
Note: Part of the Geographers on film project of the American Association of Geographers. Color: Color Duration: 15 minutes
Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...
Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
Mary Jones oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Albany,...
Mary Jones describes her childhood in Albany, Georgia, including the work she did as a child and her memories of school. Jones discusses learning about the Civil Rights Movement by reading the newspaper, and sh... More
Jamila Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atl...
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 t... More
Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier...
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 law... 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
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
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
Cecil J. Williams oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...
Summary: 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 Pre... More
Geraldine Crawford Bennett, Toni Breaux, and Willie Elliot Jenkins ora...
Summary: 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 famil... More
Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in N...
Jack Greenberg remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other ci... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...
Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... 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
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in O...
Phil Hutchings recalls growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his parents' involvement in many civic organizations, and attending Howard University. He remembers joining the Nonviolent Action Group (a precursor to the ... More
Carrie M. Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...
Summary: Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including ... 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
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
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons oral history interview conducted by Joseph M...
Summary: Gwendolyn Simmons recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Spelman College. She remembers directing SNCC's voter registration and Freedom School, called t... 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
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...
Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... 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
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland oral history interview conducted by John Dit...
Summary: Joan Trumpauer Mulholland shares how, as a child in Arlington, Virginia, her awareness of racial disparities grew. As a student at Duke University, she began participating in the sit-in movement. She s... More
Cecil J. Williams oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...
Summary: 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 Pre... More
Sally K. Cumberworth interview conducted by Michael Robert Bussel, 201...
Interview with Sally Cumberworth about her career as a home care worker. She talks about how she got into health care as a divorced mother of five; skills and abilities that good health care workers must have; ... More
Adam Christopher Riggs interview conducted by Michael Robert Bussel, 2...
Adam Christopher Riggs describes his experiences as a home health care worker and his activism with Service Employees International Union Local 503. In wide-ranging conversation he talks about the qualities nee... More
Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...
Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... 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
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... 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
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
Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
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 recal... More
Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...
Summary: Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for t... More
Cecil J. Williams oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...
Summary: 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 Pre... More
Anne Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in...
Anne 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 meeti... More