- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Sam Mahone oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013-03-09
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-
Mahone, Sam, 1945- - Date of Original:
- 2013-03-09
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Georgia
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Americus
Discrimination in public accomodations--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Lee County, Leesburg, 31.73212, -84.17074
United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269 - 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:
- Sam Mahone discusses his experiences of racial segregation and discrimination in Americus, Georgia, and how he came to be involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). After he joined SNCC, he participated in an array of activism: picketing a segregated movie theater, registering voters, and organizing in the black community. He also discusses the arrests that he and other activists experienced due to their activism, including the Americus Four case and the Leesburg Stockade. He concludes the interview by discussing his current involvement in showcasing African American art.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0063/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 video file (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (63 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (29 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: