- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Simeon Booker and Moses James Newson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011-07-13
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Booker, Simeon, 1918-
Newson, Moses J., 1927- - Date of Original:
- 2011-07-13
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Freedom Rides, 1961
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Trials (Murder)--Mississippi
African American journalists--Interviews
African American press
School integration--Tennessee--Clinton
School integration--Arkansas--Hoxie - People:
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Description:
- Simeon Booker and Moses Newson recall their early careers in journalism at several African American newspapers. Newson remembers covering school desegregation cases in Clinton, Tennessee and Hoxie, Arkansas, for the Memphis Tri-State Defender. Booker discusses covering the Emmett Till murder and the integration of Little Rock High School for Jet. They both remember covering the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0031/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 7 video files of 7 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (92 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (38 pages)
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
