Filmed interview with Harry Briggs Jr. for Eyes on the Prize. He discussed conditions in segregated schools in South Carolina, his parents' lawsuit, and retaliation against his family as a result of the suit.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Bagwell, Orlando
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Leola Montgomery for Eyes on the prize. Discussion centers on the Brown vs. Board of Education legal case which she and her husband pursued for the benefit of their daughter, as well as a discussing the segregated school system of 1950s Kansas.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc.
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Don Evans conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion focuses on Mr. Evans' involvement in civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham Alabama and race relations in the town.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Johnson, Henry
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with A.W. Wilson conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his role as pastor of Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and what impact the Montgomery bus boycott had on the community.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Richardson, Judy
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
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.