- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Stetson Kennedy, May 11, 1990
- Creator:
- Kennedy, Stetson
- Contributor to Resource:
- Egerton, John
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1990-05-11
- Subject:
- Southern States--Race relations
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Civil rights workers--Southern States
Segregation--Southern States - People:
- Kennedy, Stetson
- Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Veteran activist Stetson Kennedy describes his desire to strike down segregation in the American South and some of the ways he translated this impulse into action, including his infiltration of racist organizations. Kennedy describes himself as utterly opposed to segregation and racism, and his total devotion to a broad cause allowed him to avoid the internecine battles of the civil rights era. Despite his satisfaction with some of the victories of the civil rights era, Kennedy is not optimistic about the future of race in the United States.
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:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0354/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:29:17
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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