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Series 2: Interviews
Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan in New York, New York, October 23, 2010
Digital content available
Biographical History: Robert L. Carter was born in 1917, grew up in New Jersey, and attended Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University Law School. He worked as a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attorney, legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall, 1944-1955, general counsel, 1955-1968 and judge, 1972-2012. He argued many civil rights cases such as Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, and Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma. Carter died in 2012.
Summary: 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 other legal cases that ended segregation.
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3 videocassettes of 3 (DVCam) (186 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master
Tape ID: afc2010039_crhp0001_mv01-03
Photographs
2 photographs : digital, jpg files
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0001_ph1-2
BOX-FOLDER 4/13 Manuscripts
1 transcript (87 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0001_Carter_transcript
Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, October 29, 2010
Digital content available
Biographical History: Mildred Bond Roxborough was born in 1926, grew up in Brownsville, Tennessee, and attended Howard University, New York University, and Columbia University. She married John W. Roxborough, II, in 1963. She worked as an administrator at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1954 to 1997.
Summary: 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.
Moving Images
2 videocassettes of 2 (DVCam) (84 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master
Tape ID: afc2010039_crhp0002_mv01-02
Photographs
2 photographs : digital, jpg files
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0002_ph1-2
BOX-FOLDER 4/14 Manuscripts
1 transcript (75 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0002_Roxborough_transcript
Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, November 17, 2010
Digital content available
Biographical History: Myrtle Gonza Glascoe was born in 1936 and attended Howard University, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. She worked as a social worker, college professor, and teacher. From 1965 to 1967 she was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in Phillips County, Arkansas, and West Point, Mississippi.
Summary: 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 Howard Himmelbaum and Gertrude Jackson. She also discusses her work as the director of the Avery Research Center and her opinions on the education of African Americans.
Moving Images
2 videocassettes of 2 (DVCam) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master
Tape ID: afc2010039_crhp0003_mv01-02
Photographs
3 photographs : digital, jpg files
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0003_ph1-3
BOX-FOLDER 4/15 Manuscripts
1 transcript (83 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0003_Glascoe_transcript
Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur Paysour in Marvell, Arkansas, November 22, 2010
Digital content available
Biographical History: Gertrude Newsome Jackson was born in 1923 in Madison, Illinois, married Earliss Jackson in 1943, and had nine children. She attended Marvell High School and worked as a farmer and housewife. Jackson and her husband were farmers in Jonesridge, Arkansas, and provided food and shelter to Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers in Marvell, Arkansas during the 1960s.
Summary: 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.
Moving Images
2 videocassettes of 2 (DVCam) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master
Tape ID: afc2010039_crhp0004_mv01-02
Photographs
3 photographs : digital, jpg files
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0004_ph1-3
BOX-FOLDER 5/1 Manuscripts
1 transcript (102 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0004_Jackson_transcript
Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in Washington, D.C., December 30, 2010
Digital content available
Biographical History: Lawrence Guyot, Jr., was born in 1939 in Pass Christian, Mississippi. He married Monica Kline in 1967 and had two children. He attended Tougaloo College and Rutgers University, worked as a lobbyist and longshoreman in Washington, D. C., and fundraiser for Mary Holmes Junior College. He was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary and chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Guyot died in 2012.
Summary: 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.
Moving Images
2 videocassettes of 2 (DVCam) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master
Tape ID: afc2010039_crhp0005_mv01-02
Photographs
3 photographs : digital, jpg files
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0005_ph1-3
BOX-FOLDER 5/2 Manuscripts
1 transcript (86 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0005_Guyot_transcript
C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia, March 29, 2011
Digital content available
Biographical History: C. T. Vivian was born in 1924 in Howard County, Missouri, married Octavia Genes, and had four children. He attended Western Illinois University and worked as a minister and civil rights leader in Nashville, Tennessee.
Summary: C. T. Vivian recalls growing up in Macomb, Illinois, working in Peoria, Illinois, and his call to the ministry. He discusses attending the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, where he met other civil rights activists and participated in demonstrations. He remembers planning the Freedom Rides, his imprisonment at Parchman Prison, the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Moving Images
4 videocassettes of 4 (DVCam) (246 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master
Tape ID: afc2010039_crhp0006_mv01-04
Photographs
3 photographs : digital, jpg files
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0006_ph1-3
BOX-FOLDER 5/3-4 Manuscripts
1 transcript (229 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0006_Vivian_transcript
Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, April 25, 2011
Digital content available
Biographical History: Ruby Sales was born in 1948 and grew up in Alabama. She attended Carver High School, Tuskegee University, and Manhattanville College. She worked as the founder and director of Spirithouse and as a social justice activist. She was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field worker in Alabama.
Summary: 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 history and the current rate of African Americans in prison.
Moving Images
10 video files of 10 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (92 min.) : digital, sound, color
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0007_mv01-10
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Manuscripts
1 transcript (46 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0007_sales_transcript
Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, April 26, 2011
Digital content available
Biographical History: Doris Derby was born in 1939 or 1940 in the Bronx, New York. She married Bob Banks and attended Hunter College and the University of Illinois. She worked as an artist, photographer and educator at Georgia State University. Derby was a civil rights activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworker in Georgia.
Summary: 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, and working for Head Start.
Moving Images
8 video files of 8 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (111 min.) : digital, sound, color
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0008_mv01-08
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Manuscripts
1 transcript (46 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0008_derby_transcript
Jamila Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, April 27, 2011
Digital content available
Biographical History: Jamila Jones was born in 1944 in Montgomery, Alabama. She worked as singer and artist and wrote one of the verses of the song, "We Shall Overcome."
Summary: 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.
Moving Images
4 video files of 4 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (49 min.) : digital, sound, color
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0009_mv01-04
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Manuscripts
1 transcript (23 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0009_jonesjamila_transcript
Simeon Wright oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, May 23, 2011
Digital content available
Biographical History: Simeon Wright was born in 1942 in Doddsville, Mississippi. He married Annie Cole in 1971 and attended the Moody Bible Institute. He worked as a pipefitter, Sunday school teacher, and deacon. He is the author of Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till (Chicago, IL. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2010).
Summary: 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.
Moving Images
4 video files of 4 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (91 min.) : digital, sound, color
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0010_mv01-04
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Manuscripts
1 transcript (48 pages)
Digital ID: afc2010039_crhp0010_wright_transcript
Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, May 23, 2011
Digital content available
Biographical History: Wheeler Parker was born in 1939 in Schlater, Mississippi, grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and married Marvel McCain in 1967. He worked as a barber, photographer, and pastor. At age 16, he traveled from Chicago to Mississippi with his cousin Emmett Till and witnessed his kidnapping.
Summary: 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.
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