- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with James McMillan
- Creator:
- McMillan, James C., 1925-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1979-08-15
- Subject:
- African American college teachers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American artists--North Carolina--Greensboro
Congress of Racial Equality
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American college students--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American universities and colleges--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations - People:
- McMillan, James C., 1925-
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history in which James McMillan discusses how he came to be involved in CORE activities and his role as liaison for the students. He describes various protests he was involved in, recounts three of his arrests, and tells of conditions for protesters incarcerated at the polio hospital. McMillan also discusses the psychological toll of battling segregation and his opinion of the progress in race relations in Greensboro since 1960.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A96
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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