- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Ekwueme Michael Thelwell oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Pelham, Massachusetts, 2013-08-23
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Crosby, Emilye
Thelwell, Michael - Date of Original:
- 2013-08-23
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Nonviolent Action Group - Location:
- United States, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, 42.34014, -72.66377
United States, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Pelham, 42.39315, -72.4037 - 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:
- Ekueme Michael Thelwell remembers his time as a student activist at Howard University and his experiences with the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Working primarily out of Washington, D.C., Thelwell marched in and organized demonstrations and made major contributions to SNCC and MFDP strategy around voter registration and the MFDP's 1965 effort to challenge the seating of the Mississippi congressional delegation. He details the developing MFDP strategy, his attempts to navigate Washington politics, and his relationships with various figures involved in the effort.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0104/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 24 video files of 24 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (255 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (116 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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