- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Reginald Robinson oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 11
- Contributor to Resource:
- Robinson, Reginald, 1939- interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2015
- Subject:
- McDew, Charles
Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Maryland--Interviews
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Baltimore
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Cambridge
Civil rights movements--United States
Voter registration--Maryland
Voter registration--Mississippi
Cambridge (Md.)--Race relations--History - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Maryland, 39.00039, -76.74997
United States, Maryland, City of Baltimore, 39.29038, -76.61219
United States, Maryland, Dorchester County, Cambridge, 38.56317, -76.07883
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Reginald "Reg" Robinson shares his experience of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and how he became known as an "advance man" throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Beginning with his involvement with the student-led Civic Interest Group in Baltimore, Maryland, he discusses how his involvement with the Cambridge Movement led him to becoming a field secretary for SNCC. He recalls how Voter Education Programs and various recruitment activities of SNCC epitomized the rule of "building and growing" and prides himself for remaining committed to ensuring Civil Rights today.
Recorded in Washington, District of Columbia, on December 11, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0130), 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.).
Reginald Robinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1939. After leaving high school during the eleventh grade to work, he eventually attended Cortez Peters Business College, where he first got involved in civil rights through the student organization, Civic Interest Group. He quickly became involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1961. Working for SNCC as a field secretary, his duties focused on supporting voter registration in McComb, Mississippi and Cambridge, Maryland. After SNCC, he worked multiple jobs around the country before finally settling in Washington, DC, where he eventually retired in 2001.
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_crhp0130
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
- Extent:
- 10 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (03:26:30) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0130
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
