- Collection:
- Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Albert Gordon, 2001
- Creator:
- Gordon, Albert F.
- Contributor to Resource:
- University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture
University of Mississippi. Division of Outreach and Continuing Education
University of Mississippi. William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation - Date of Original:
- 2001
- Subject:
- University of Mississippi--History--Interviews
Civil rights workers--Southern States--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Southern States--Interviews
Freedom Rides, 1961
Congress of Racial Equality
Mississippi State Penitentiary
We shall overcome
Reunions--Mississippi
Jews--United States
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust survivors--United States
Families--United States
Authority
Race relations
United States--Race relations
Mississippi--Race relations
Alabama--Race relations
Southern States
Racism--United States
Ethics--United States
Civil rights workers--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi
Voter registration--Mississippi
Sharecroppers--Mississippi
Fear--Mississippi
Imprisonment--Mississippi
Taxicabs--Mississippi
Buses--United States
Bus travel--United States
Bus travel--Southern States
Buses--Mississippi
Brotherliness
Peace movements--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
United States--History--1961-1969
Friendship--United States - People:
- Gordon, Albert F.--Interviews
Peck, James
Gaither, Thomas Walter, 1938-
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004
Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967
Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Calhoun County, Anniston, 33.65983, -85.83163
United States, Alabama, Dallas County, 32.32597, -87.10648
United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/quicktime
- Description:
- In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people, both black and white, including Albert Gordon, risked their lives to challenge the system of segregation in interstate travel in the South. The University of Mississippi's Freedom riders oral history project includes interviews recorded in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of that summer.
- Metadata URL:
- http://egrove.olemiss.edu/freeriders/4
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Extent:
- 26 min.
- Original Collection:
- Freedom riders 40th anniversary oral history project
- Contributing Institution:
- John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
- Rights:
-
