- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Joe Mitchell
- Creator:
- Mitchell, Joe, 1930-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1989-09-27
- Subject:
- Northampton County (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Northampton County
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil right demonstrations--North Carolina--Northampton County
Civil right demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Voting--North Carolina--Greensboro
Voting registrars--North Carolina--Greensboro
Voter registration--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Suffrage--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American clergy--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Arrest--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Mitchell, Joe, 1930-
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
Johns, Ralph, 1916-1997 - 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 Joe Mitchell discusses his childhood, education, and race relations in Northampton County. He characterized the national and local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organizations and his participation in their activities. He also discusses his personal experience registering to vote, the importance of enfranchisement, and his subsequent voter registration efforts. Other topics include the role of black ministers, Jesse Jackson, and Ralph Johns in local civil rights activities and politics; his arrest for demonstrating in Greensboro; and the merits of the district system of city council elections.
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%3A101
- 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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