Filmed interview with Harold Engstrom conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the integration of Little Rock Central High School, Governor Orval Faubus and Virgil T. Blossom.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Virginia Durr conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on life in segregated Alabama, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Senator James Eastland of Mississippi harassment of pro-integration southerners.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Ivanhoe Donaldson conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, the precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion ranges widely over movement activism during the early to mid-1960s, including the March on Washington and Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activism in...Show full record
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Johnson, Henry, Richardson, Judy
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Robert B. Ellis conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the integration crisis at the University of Mississippi, James Meredith and Governor Ross Barnett.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview of Myrlie Evers, widow of Medgar Evers, conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on her childhood in Vicksburg and Tugaloo, MS, and her own experience of segregation.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Bagwell, Orlando
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with James Farmer conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his work in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and debates within the movement over the commitment to non-violence.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Arndt, Prudence
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview of James Forman conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the March on Washington and the Selma to Montgomery Rights March, along with discussing SNCC and SCLC.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with A.G. Gaston conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Birmingham campaign of 1963 and his efforts to reach a negotiated settlement between civil rights activists and the city government, including Bull Connor.
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., DeVinney, James
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with John Lewis conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, his friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr., the relationship between SCLC and SNCC, his view on the philosophy of nonviolence, and his involvement in the March on...Show full record
Subject:
OralHistory--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., DeVinney, James A.
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.