- Title:
- KZSU Project South Interviews
- Date of Original:
- 1965
- Subject:
- Civil rights--United States
Congress of Racial Equality
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Summer Community Organization and Political Education (Organization)
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
Civil rights workers--United States
African American civil rights workers--United States
Women civil rights workers--United States
African American women civil rights workers--United States - Location:
- United States, California, Santa Clara County, Stanford, 37.42411, -122.16608
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
transcripts
sound recordings - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- application/pdf
audio/mpeg - Description:
- This collection contains transcripts and audio recordings of meetings and interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by several Stanford students affiliated with the campus radio station KZSU during the summer of 1965. The project was sponsored by the Institute of American History at Stanford. The collection includes information relating to black history; interviews of members of the Congress of Racial Equality, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; transcripts of formal and informal remarks of persons working with smaller, independent civil rights projects, of local blacks associated with the civil rights movement, and other people, including Ku Klux Klansmen; transcribed action tapes of civil rights workers canvassing voters, conducting freedom schools, or participating in demonstration; speeches by and/or interviews with Ralph David Abernathy, Charles Evers, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hosea Williams; and a Ku Klux Klan meeting and speech made by Robert Sheldon, its Imperial Wizard.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7489n969/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Original Collection:
- KZSU Project South Interviews (SC0066)
- Contributing Institution:
- Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections
- Rights:
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