- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- North Carolina - Greensboro: John Marshall Kilimanjaro Interviewee
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dent, Thomas C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-01-25
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights demonstrations
Education
Segregation - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, Jefferson County, Pine Bluff, 34.22843, -92.0032
United States, Arkansas, Washington County, Fayetteville, 36.06258, -94.15743
United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198 - Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews John Marshall Kilimanjaro [formerly Stevenson] in Greensboro, North Carolina. Kilimanjaro was originally from Little Rock, Arkansas. He talks about his family and early memories. His grandfather John Marshall Robinson practiced medicine and went to prison for killing a man. Kilimanjaro was discharged from the military in 1954 and entered the University of Arkansas. He recalls the struggles he faced as a Black student in Fayetteville before returning to Pine Bluff. Kilimanjaro and Dent discuss mutual acquaintances. Kilimanjaro talks about coming to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University [A&T] in Greensboro. A&T was originally an all-boys school and Bennett College was meant to be the accompanying all-girls school. He talks about the Founders' Day speech during which Governor Luther Hodges was booed for saying "negro" or "nigger" and about his time teaching.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53905
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
-
