- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- John and Jean Rosenberg oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Prestonburg, Kentucky, 2013-08-15
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Rosenberg, John M., 1931-
Rosenberg, Jean Voelker - Date of Original:
- 2013-08-15
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Lawyers--United States--Interviews
Veterans--United States--Interviews
Violence--Mississippi--History
United States. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division--History
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Mississippi--History - People:
- Doar, John, 1921-2014
- Location:
- United States, Kentucky, Floyd County, 37.55711, -82.7457
United States, Kentucky, Floyd County, Prestonsburg, 37.66565, -82.77155 - 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:
- Jean and John Rosenberg begin this interview with recollections of their families' backgrounds. Jean learned about social issues as she was raised by a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, and John's family fled Germany under threat from the Nazis. Jean attended Wilmington College and became a research analyst for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. John grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina, where FBI agents kept tabs on his family, attended Duke University, served in the Air Force, and attended the University of North Carolina School of Law. He became an attorney with the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, which became effective after reorganization by John Doar. Much of this interview concerns Jean and John's work with the Civil Rights Division, including support for voter registration efforts in Georgia and Alabama, the investigation of the Hartman Turnbow case, in which a black activist was arrested for an arson attempt on his own home, and an effort to address a murder in Mississippi. John also addresses the effects of the Voting Rights Act in the South, the role of the lawyers in the Civil Rights Division in relation to the FBI and local law enforcement, and a variety of other cases and issues he dealt with. After retirement, the Rosenbergs founded the Appalachian Citizens Law Center.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0100/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 10 video files of 10 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (157 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (70 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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