- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Glennon Threatt, June 16, 2005
- Creator:
- Threatt, Glennon, 1957-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hill, Kimberly (Kimberly DeJoie)
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 2005-06-16
- Subject:
- School integration--Alabama--Birmingham
Interracial dating
Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham
Gifted children--Education
African American students--Alabama--Birmingham
Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Alabama--Birmingham--Attitudes
Indian Springs School (Indian Springs Village, Ala.) - People:
- Threatt, Glennon, 1957-
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Shelby County, 33.26428, -86.66065
United States, Alabama, Shelby County, Indian Springs Village, 33.35539, -86.75443 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Glennon Threatt describes his experiences with racial segregation in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Threatt, a lawyer in Birmingham, was one of three gifted African American students who integrated an all-white elementary school gifted class. His presence at the school both helped propel him to academic success and made him a double target for violence and intimidation. Threatt left Alabama to attend Princeton, leaving behind a city where residential and school desegregation seemed to nurture, rather than erode, racism. When he returned to Birmingham twenty years later, he found African Americans in leadership positions, but also golf courses that continued to refuse them membership. Researchers interested in the Birmingham experience with segregation, one African American's experience with racial discrimination and violence, and reflections on the life of racism in America will find this interview very useful.
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/U-0023/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:35:07
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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