- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- James Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Austin, Texas, 2011-05-25
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Jones, James Oscar, 1943- - Date of Original:
- 2011-05-25
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Arkansas
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Voter registration--Arkansas
Civil rights workers--Arkansas--Interviews
Civil rights demonstrations--Arkansas
Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College - People:
- Grinage, Ben
Hansen, Bill, 1939- - Location:
- United States, Texas, Travis County, 30.33469, -97.78195
United States, Texas, Travis County, Austin, 30.26715, -97.74306 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
image/tiff
text/xml
application/pdf - Description:
- James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, and attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff. He discusses his involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and meeting activists Bill Hansen and Ben Grinage. He recalls participating in sit-ins at Woolworth's drug store in Pine Bluff, and helping African Americans in rural areas become political candidates.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0014/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video files of 8 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (127 min.) : digital, sound, color. 2 transcripts (57 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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