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KZSU Project South Interviews

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.

More About This Collection

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

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

Original Collection
KZSU Project South Interviews (SC0066)

Contributing Institution
Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections

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