- Collection:
- Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001
- Title:
- Oral history interview with James Forman, 2001
- Creator:
- Forman, James, 1928-2005
- 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
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc
Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Congress of Racial Equality
Mississippi Freedom Project
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Chicago defender
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
We shall overcome
Reunions--Mississippi
Lynching--Mississippi
Murder--Mississippi
Murder--Alabama
Violence--Alabama--Anniston
Arrest--Mississippi
Arrest--Georgia
Arrest--North Carolina
Imprisonment--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
African American civil rights workers--Southern States
Voter registration--Mississippi
Segregation--Southern States
Segregation in transportation--Southern States
Discrimination in public accommodations--Southern States
United States--History--1961-1969
Race relations
Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century
Georgia--Race relations--History--20th century
North Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century
Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century
Civil rights demonstrations--Southern States
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia
Flags--United States--States
Poll tax--Mississippi
Singing--Mississippi
Oral histories
Moving images
Forman, James, 1928-2005--Interviews
Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc.
Ferguson, John H. (Judge)--Trials, litigation, etc.
Brown, Oliver, 1918--Trials, litigation, etc. - People:
- Forman, James, 1928-2005
Williams, Robert F. (Robert Franklin), 1925-1996
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965
Parker, Mack Charles
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969
Plessy, Homer Adolph
Ferguson, John H. (Judge)
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Calhoun County, Anniston, 33.65983, -85.83163
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
United States, Mississippi, Pike County, McComb, 31.24379, -90.45315
United States, North Carolina, Union County, Monroe, 34.98543, -80.54951
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - 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 James Forman, 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/8
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Freedom riders 40th anniversary oral history project
- Contributing Institution:
- John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
- Rights:
-
