Interview with Jackson College Students, February 12, 1964
Project: Who Speaks For The Negro? The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project
Interview Summary
A group of college students from Jackson College discuss the civil rights movement at the time of the interview and their own participation in it. They discuss whether the general population of segregated places in the Southern states actually endorses segregation, and how the resistance to the civil rights movement is merely the actions of a very vocal minority. The also have discussions on Abraham Lincoln's views on race, W.E.B. Dubois' "great split" theory, the nonviolent approach to protest, and the difficulty of balancing activism and the life of a college student.Interview Accession
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Yellow journalism Ku Klux Klan Lincoln Memorial March on Washington, 1963 Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Jackson State University Martin Luther King, Jr. Sit-ins Black bourgeoisie W.E.B. Dubois Who Speaks for the Negro? (Book)Interview LC Subject
African Americans--Civil rights Race relations Black universities and colleges Racism--United States Civil rights demonstrations African American leadership Black Muslims African Americans--Social conditions Race, class, and social structure Education African Americans--Race identity Nonviolence Passive resistance Protest movements Multiculturalism African Americans--HistoryInterview Rights
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Students, Jackson College Interview by Robert Penn Warren. 12 Feb. 1964. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Students, J.C. (1964, February 12). 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.
Students, Jackson College, interview by Robert Penn Warren. February 12, 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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