Interview with Carroll G. Barber, February 16, 1964
Project: Who Speaks For The Negro? The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Carroll G. Barber was a white civil rights activist and anthropologist. He became associated with Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1961 and was arrested on July 15, 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi when he participated in the Freedom Rides. In this interview Carroll G. Barber discusses African American identity and Black Muslims. He discusses his belief in nonviolence and his experiences with civil rights demonstrations. Barber describes difference between the progress of the civil right movement in the North and the South. He also discusses differences between Southerners and Northerners as well as African Americans and whites. Barber describes how whites or other "outsiders" are perceived when they try to participate in the civil rights movement and tensions that may arise. He describes an experience he had in Memphis, Tennessee with segregation and concludes discussing the influence of a mob.Interview Accession
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African Americans--Civil rights African Americans--Relations with Africans African Americans--Segregation--Southern States Anthropology Barber, Carroll G. Barber, Carroll G.-Interviews Black Muslims--Race identity Civil rights demonstrations Civil rights movements--United States Civil rights workers Fisk University Nonviolence Race relations Segregation Southern States--Race relations Tennessee--Race relations United States--Race relations--Political aspects Whites--Civil rights--United States Whites--Southern States African Americans--Race identityInterview Rights
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Barber, Carroll G. Interview by Robert Penn Warren. 16 Feb. 1964. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Barber, C.G. (1964, February 16). Interview by R. P. Warren. Who Speaks For The Negro? The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Barber, Carroll G., interview by Robert Penn Warren. February 16, 1964, Who Speaks For The Negro? The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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