- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Lonnie C. King oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Atlanta, Georgia, 2013 May 29
- Contributor to Resource:
- King, Lonnie C., 1936- interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2013
- Subject:
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
African American college students--Interviews
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights movements--United States - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Lonnie C. King shares his memories of growing up in Atlanta, where he attended Ebenezer Baptist Church and was close with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family. He recalls hs stint in the U.S. Navy, his years as a student at Morehouse College, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta in the 1960s. He also remembers his relationships with older African American leaders in Atlanta, including Martin Luther King, Sr., Benjamin Mays, and Rufus Clement, and the various boycotts and protests staged by the Atlanta Student Movement while he was its director.
Recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 29, 2013.
Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
Lonnie C. King was a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a leader of the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR)
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0090
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact.
- Extent:
- 11 video files of 11 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (154 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (68 pages). - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0090
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
