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.
Interview with Walter Mondale conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his efforts to effect a compromise at the 1964 Democratic National Convention between the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the official Democratic delegates.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview of Richard Valeriani conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on covering civil rights campaigns in Alabama as a correspondent for NBC.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Dr. Kenneth Clark conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and his research into the psychological consequences of racism for black Americans.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.