- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Amos C. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Francisco, California, 2013-03-02
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Date of Original:
- 2013-03-02
- Subject:
- Civil rights--United States--Cases
Civil rights movements--United States
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
African American clergy--Interviews
Freedom Rides, 1961 - People:
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
- Location:
- United States, California, City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco, 37.77493, -122.41942
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
moving images
transcripts - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
image/tiff
text/xml - Description:
- Reverend Dr. Amos Brown discusses his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi and meeting Medgar Evers, who quickly became his mentor. Brown was a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a teenager, leading the Jackson chapter and then the whole state Youth Council and traveling with Mr. Evers across the country to attend a national conference. He was asked to leave his high school for making comments to the Cleveland Plain Dealer about unequal schools for blacks, and remembers his participation in a 1961 Freedom Ride, his travel to Africa as part of Operation Crossroads Africa, and his work at Third Baptist Church on various social causes.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0060/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video files of 8 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (119 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (41 pages)
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project, (U.S.) (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: