- Collection:
- Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Joan C. Browning, 2001
- Creator:
- Browning, Joan C.
- 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
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Rich's (Retail store)
Reunions--Mississippi
African Americans--Civil rights--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
Bus travel--United States
Bus travel--Southern States
Civil rights workers--Southern States
Women civil rights workers--Southern States
Civil rights demonstrations--Southern States
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Augusta
Segregation--Southern States
Segregation in transportation--Southern States
Discrimination in public accommodations--Southern States
United States--History--1961-1969
Race relations
Georgia--Race relations--History--20th century
Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century
Nonviolence--Georgia
Fear--Georgia--Albany
Imprisonment--Georgia--Albany
Threats of violence--Georgia--Albany
Police--Georgia--Albany
Arrest--Georgia--Albany
Letter writing--Georgia--Albany
Hunger strikes--Georgia--Albany
Families--Georgia
Oral histories
Moving images
Browning, Joan C.--Interviews - People:
- Browning, Joan C.
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002
Lawson, James M., 1928-
Laursen, Per Fibæk
Lee, Bernard Scott, -1991
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Hayden, Casey
Hayden, Tom
Collins, Norma Freeman, 1941-
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Curry, Constance, 1933-
Zellner, Bob - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- application/pdf
video/quicktime - Description:
- In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people, both black and white, including Joan C. Browning, 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/39
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Freedom riders 40th anniversary oral history project
- Contributing Institution:
- John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
- Rights:
-
