Interview with Robert Links conducted for Eyes on the Prize II. Discussion centers on his legal work on the Allan Bakke case and it's challenge to affirmative action programs at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedState
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Shearer, Jacqueline, Blackside, Inc.
Publisher:
Blackside, Inc., Washington University in St. Louis
Interview with James Peck conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his participation in the Freedom Rides.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Hampton, Henry
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Gordon Carey conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the origins of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the sit-ins, nonviolence and the Freedom Rides.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Harris Wofford conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Kennedy administration's policies on civil rights, as well as John Kennedy's intervention with the governor of Georgia in order to release Dr. Martin Luther King from jail in 1960.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Arndt, Prudence
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Linda Brown Smith conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on her experiences in Kansas's segregated schools and her family's involvement in the Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Smith, Llewellyn
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Marcia Webb Lecky conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the integration crisis at Central High School in Little Rock, where Lecky was a student.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Charles Diggs conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the trial of Emmett Till's killers (which he attended), the impact of the Till case, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and battles over segregation in Congress.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Smith, Llewellyn
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview of Rachel West Nelson conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on life in segregated Alabama and the Selma voting rights campaign.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with B.J. Simms conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his involvement in the Montgomery bus boycott as its Director of Transportation.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Richardson, Judy
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.