Interview with Southern University, February 6, 1964
Project: Who Speaks For The Negro? The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Robert Penn Warren interviews a group of students and one administrator from Southern University in New Orleans, Louisiana. They discuss the various leaders of the growing civil rights movement and the Black Muslim movement, as well as the various cultural and social standards Black individuals must hold themselves to in order to advance the movement.Interview Accession
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Black Muslim movement Malcolm X Martin Luther King, Jr. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) W.E.B. Dubois Social theory Howard University Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Montgomery (Ala.) Birmingham (Ala.) John F. Kennedy Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation March on Washington, 1943 Brown vs. Board of Education 1964 Civil Rights Act Tokenism March on Washington, 1963 Washington (D.C.) Thomas Jefferson NAACP Youth Council Who Speaks for the Negro? (Book)Interview LC Subject
African Americans--Civil rights Race relations Black Muslims African American leadership African Americans--Race identity Black universities and colleges African Americans--Social conditions Protest movements Nonviolence Civil rights movements--United States Civil rights demonstrations Racism African Americans--Religion Equality Passive resistanceInterview Rights
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University, Southern Interview by Robert Penn Warren. 06 Feb. 1964. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
University, S. (1964, February 06). 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.
University, Southern, interview by Robert Penn Warren. February 06, 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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