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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...
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 ... More
Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview co...
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 job... 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
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
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
Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview conducted by ...
Doris and Joyce Ladner discuss organizing for the March on Washington with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dorie Ladner recalls her work with SNCC in Natchez, Mississippi, and the murder a... 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
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
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
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
Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...
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 ... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 the bomb... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Geraldine Crawford Bennett, Toni Breaux, and Willie Elliot Jenkins ora...
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... More
Geraldine Crawford Bennett, Toni Breaux, and Willie Elliot Jenkins ora...
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... More
Geraldine Crawford Bennett, Toni Breaux, and Willie Elliot Jenkins ora...
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... More
Alfred Moldovan oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...
Summary: Alfred Moldovan remembers growing up in the Bronx and the influence of his parents, who were Jewish Hungarian immigrants. He recalls serving in the air force as a radio repairman during World War II an... More