- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Harold K. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Diego, California, 2016 June 28
- Contributor to Resource:
- Brown, Harold K., 1934- interviewee
Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2016
- Subject:
- Moshoeshoe--II,--King of Lesotho,--1938-1996
Congress of Racial Equality
Peace Corps (U.S.)--Lesotho
San Diego State University--History
African American business enterprises--California--San Diego
African American civil rights workers--California--Interviews
African Americans--Economic conditions
Civil rights demonstrations--California
Civil rights movements--California
Civil rights movements--United States
Discrimination in housing--California--San Diego
Segregation in education--Pennsylvania - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, California, 37.25022, -119.75126
United States, California, San Diego County, San Diego, 32.71571, -117.16472
United States, Pennsylvania, 40.8, -77.7 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Harold "Hal" K. Brown talks about his activist work in obtaining housing and voting rights for San Diego's African American communities. He also discusses his time working in Apartheid-era Lesotho with the Peace Corps, his tenure as chairman of San Diego's CORE branch, and his thoughts on contemporary activism and racial and economic inequality.
Recorded in San Diego, California, on June 28, 2016.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0141), 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.).
Harold K. Brown was born in 1934 in York, Pennsylvania where he attended segregated elementary school and integrated junior high and high schools. After joining the Army for two years, he eventually attended San Diego State University where he became involved in student government. After graduating in 1960, he became involved with Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He became deputy director for the Peace Corps in Lesotho, Africa. He returned to the United States after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. After a short time in New York, he was hired to develop the Afro American Studies department at San Diego State. He went on to hold several different positions, including Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration, at his alma mater. Since retiring in 2004, he has continued work in economic engagement and real estate development.
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_crhp0141
- 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:
- 9 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (2:19:43) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0141
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
