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    Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan in New York, New York, 2010 October 23 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 Memorial and his service in the segregated army during World War II. He recounts his career as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including the Brown v. Board of Education case and…
    • Contributor: Carter, Robert L. - Sullivan, Patricia - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, 2010 October 29 Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker and worked in a variety of administrative positions including as director of development.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bond, Julian - Roxborough, Mildred Bond
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, 2010 November 17 Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work. She remembers joining the Baltimore Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), moving to California, and her work as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in West Point, Mississippi and Phillips County, Arkansas, where she worked closely with…
    • Contributor: Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur Paysour in Marvell, Arkansas, 2010 November 22 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 rural Arkansas. She discusses assisting Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers Howard Himmelbaum and Myrtle Glascoe, working for Head Start, and starting a community center. Jackson's grandson is also interviewed.
    • Contributor: Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Paysour, Lafleur - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in Washington, D.C., 2010 December 30 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 (SNCC), joining the organization, and participating in Freedom Summer. He discusses his opinions and memories of Mississippi politics, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and his later life in Washington, D. C.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Guyot, Lawrence - Bond, Julian
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Civil Rights History Project On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a national survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to…
    • Contributor: Magee, Clarence - McKinney, Samuel Berry - Thelwell, Michael - Seeger, Pete - Jones, Clarence B. - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Howell, Embry - Huggins, Ericka - Lowery, Joseph E. - Ackerman, David M. ... Magee, Clarence - McKinney, Samuel Berry - Thelwell, Michael - Seeger, Pete - Jones, Clarence B. - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Howell, Embry - Huggins, Ericka - Lowery, Joseph E. - Ackerman, David M. - Young, Sam - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Taylor, Kieran Walsh - Breaux, Toni - Parker, Wheeler - Hamilton, Audrey Nell - Jones, Mary A. - Strickland, William - Howard, Elbert - Miller, Grace H. - Hill, Oliver W. - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Henderson, Juadine - Walker, Theresa Ann - Anderson, Fletcher - Hicks, Darryl Robertson - Miller, James E. - Jarmon, Charles - Siler, Charles E. - Carawan, Guy - Ladner, Joyce A. - Todd, Lisa Anderson - Williams, Cecil J. - Hicks, Charles Ray - King, Lonnie C. - Mosnier, Joseph - Collins, Barbara Maria - Bruce, Walter - Brown, Robert J. - Cleaver, Kathleen - Abernathy, Donzaleigh - Bond, Julian - Dudley, John F. - Carter, Robert L. - Mahone, Sam - McCullar, Johnnie Ruth - Zapata, Luis - Terry, Esther M. A. - Crosby, David L. - Branch, Taylor - Simpson, Euvester - Suggs, Frances L. - Bassett, Emmett W. - Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer - Hutchings, Phil - American Folklife Center - Arellanes, Gloria - Sherrod, Charles - Jenkins, Timothy Lionel - Broadway, Louise W. - Jenkins, Mary F. - Grinnell, Gloria Claudette - Camarillo, Mateo - Cotton, Dorothy F. - Anderson, William G. - Guster, Leesco - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Russell, Bill - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley) - Lawson, Jennifer - Rosenberg, John M. - Howell, Joseph T. - National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) - Caldwell, Ben R. - Newson, Moses J. - Churchville, John Elliott - Montes, Carlos - Moore, E. Maynard - McNichols, Steven - Richardson, Judy - Adams-Johnson, Frankye - George, Virginia Simms - Brown, Harold K. - Stewart, Eleanor - Avery, Annie Pearl - Vickers, Barbara Edna - Derby, Doris Adelaide - Browner, Clifford - Clark, Robert George - Holloway, Lucius - Zellner, Dorothy - Abernathy, Juandalynn R. - Jones, James Oscar - Branch, Raylawni G. - Burns, Julia Matilda - Paysour, Lafleur - Varela, Maria - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Head, Rosie M. - Griffin, Willie James - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Saunders, William - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Ladner, Dorie - Crosby, Patricia A. - McCarty, Michael D. - Bishop, John Melville - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James) - Gaither, Thomas Walter - Funchess, Glenda - Vivian, C. T. - Tillow, Walter M. - Alexander, Roberta - Richardson, Gloria - Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Sherrod, Shirley - Walker, Wyatt Tee - Diamond, Dion T. - Marshall, Cecilia - Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Carawan, Candie - Burras, Carol Cummings - Lawrence, William M. - McLaurin, Charles - Fuller, Linda - Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Luper, Calvin - Hopkins, Evans D. - Sellers, Cleveland - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Miller, Carolyn - Bailey, D'army - Young, Carrie Lamar - Sales, Ruby - Conway, Purcell Maurice - Geiger, Jack - Southern Oral History Program - Library of Congress - Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Sobol, Anne Buxton - Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Carlos, John - Guyot, Lawrence - Dixon, Elmer - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Hayling, Robert Bagner - Robinson, Reginald - Crosby, Emilye - Mtume, Norma - Greene, Freddie - Suggs, Harold - Dove, Samuel - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Moldovan, Alfred - Williams, Junius W. - Dittmer, John - Sobol, Richard B. - Dixon, Aaron - Robinson, Betty Garman - Tuttle, Rick - Jones, Jamila - Cox, Courtland - Booker, Simeon - Greenberg, Jack - McClary, Robert - Wright, Simeon - Abernathy, Ralph David - Cline, David P. - Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Blake, Harry - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper - Tillow, Kay - Jenkins, Willie Elliot - Finney, Ernest A., (Ernest Adolphus) - Ulmer, Joeann Anderson - Lucy, William - Connor, Peggy Jean - Holloway, Emma Kate - Noonan, Martha P. - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Smith, Jeanette - Bassett, Priscilla - Sullivan, Patricia - McDew, Charles - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Dahmer, Vernon - Holloway, Eddie A. - Long, Worth W. - Anderson, Cynthia Baker - Bates, Scott - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Hicks, Valeria Payton
    • Date: 2010

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