- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- North Carolina - Greensboro: Carolyn Q. Coleman
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dent, Thomas C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-02-04
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights demonstrations
Segregation
Education
Literacy
Tobacco
Universities and colleges
Voting
Voter registration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
United States, North Carolina, Durham County, Durham, 35.99403, -78.89862
United States, North Carolina, Forsyth County, Winston-Salem, 36.09986, -80.24422
United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198 - Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews Lewis A. Brandon III in Greensboro, North Carolina. Brandon continues to talk about Malcolm X Liberation University, its founding, operation, and demise. He also discusses the Uhuru bookstore. Rex Harris from Fayetteville helped raise money for the University. People from all over volunteered to teach there. The Foundation for Community Development provided funding. They also funded Student Organization for Black Unity [SOBU], which became Youth Organization for Black Unity [YOBU], and organized Black students around the country. Greensboro Association of Poor People [GAPP], YOBU, and Malcolm X all supported each other. The Pan-Africanists turned evolved into Marxists. Nelson Johnson worked as a hands-on organizer. Howard Fuller went to Mozambique. By 1973 or '74, the Greensboro community began to peter out. Uhuru, the bookstore, was founded by the Foundation for Community Development. It operated 1972-1983. They talk about a mutual friend, Willy, from South Africa. Brandon recommends a couple of jazz musicians to whom Dent might want to speak.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53901
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
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