- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Joe Dickson
- Creator:
- Dickson, Joe, 1933-
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.) - Date of Original:
- 1933/1963
- Subject:
- African American men--Alabama
African American civil rights workers--Alabama
African American college students--Alabama
Civil rights workers--Alabama
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham
Boycotts--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Violence against
African Americans--Social conditions--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Alabama--Economic conditions
African American schools--Alabama
African American students--Alabama
Discrimination in education--Alabama
Minorities--Employment
Minorities--Education
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham
Suffrage--Alabama--Birmingham
Equality--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham
College presidents--Alabama
Alabama--Race relations
Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham
Equality
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Miles College
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
United States. Constitution. 15th Amendment
Howard Law School
Southern Christian Leadership Conference - People:
- Dickson, Joe, 1933-
Bell, William Augustus, 1882-
Pitts, Lucius Hosley, 1922-1991
Gaston, A. G. (Arthur George), 1892-1996
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Fairfield, 33.48594, -86.91194
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997 - Medium:
- instructional materials
teaching guides
resource units
video recordings (physical artifacts)
oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- text/html
video/quicktime
application/pdf - Description:
- In this interview, Joe Dickson recalls his days as a student at Miles College in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He describes the relationship between student activists and two successive college presidents. The first, Dr. William Augustus Bell, discouraged student involvement in the early years of the Civil Rights movement. He feared student activism would trigger white resistance and adversely affect fundraising. The second, Dr. Lucius Pitts, supported student activism and participated in negotiations between white businessmen and black students.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 6-12.
A transcript of the Quicktime movie is available.
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://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.dickson/
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
- Extent:
- 9.7 Mb
ca. 7 mins. - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights: