Items and Collections

Contributor to Resource
[Nashville, Tenn.]: Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

Date of Original
1964/1965

Subject
African Americans--Segregation--United States
African American businesspeople--United States
African American churches--United States
African American lawyers--United States
African American families--United States
African American civil rights workers--United States
African American civil rights workers--Tennessee
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi
African American civil rights workers--Georgia
African American universities and colleges--United States
Civil rights workers--United States
Civil rights workers--Tennessee
Civil rights workers--Mississippi
Civil rights workers--Georgia
African Americans--United States
Busing for school integration--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--United States
Discrimination in justice administration--United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
Discrimination in education--United States
Discrimination in employment--United States
Discrimination in housing--United States
Discrimination in public accommodations--United States
Discrimination in the military--United States
Educational equalization--United States
Functional literacy--United States
Interracial marriage--United States
Middle class African Americans--United States
Miscegenation--United States
Nonviolence--United States
Occupational training--United States
Police--United States
Political ethics--United States
United States--Race relations
Race relations
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
School integration--United States
Segregation in transportation--United States
Self-defense--United States
Slave insurrections--United States
Spirituals (Songs)--United States
Strikes and lockouts--United States
Unemployment--United States
Universities and Colleges, Black--United States
White Citizens councils--United States
Whites--United States
Violence--United States
Voter registration--United States
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
University of Mississippi
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Jackson State College
Jackson State College--Students
Tougaloo College
Tougaloo College--Students
Fisk University
Fisk University--Students
Random House (Firm)

People
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989--Correspondence
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987
Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972
Young, Andrew, 1932-
Beckwith, Byron de la
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
Walker, Wyatt Tee
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
Farmer, James, 1920-1999
Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935-
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Ellison, Ralph
Meredith, James, 1933-
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027

Medium
collection

Type
Text

Description
The Who Speaks for the Negro? web site is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by American poet, literary critic, teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Penn Warren in 1965. The digital collection was created and designed by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University from original materials that were provided by the University of Kentucky and Yale University libraries, and digitized with the permission of the Warren estate in order to create a full digital record of Warren's research for the book., In 1964, as Warren prepared to write this book, he spoke to men and women involved in the Civil Rights Movement across the United States, and recorded these conversations on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. His subjects included nationally-recognized leaders of the Movement, as well as civil rights workers who worked locally, and whose names might not be otherwise known. The archive contains digitized versions of Warren's original reel-to-reel recordings, as well as copies of transcripts, correspondence, and other print materials related to his research for this book. The print materials represented in the digital collection are displayed in two parts that include a non-searchable image of the original document, and the re-transcribed text of the document, which is searchable.

Metadata URL
http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/

Rights Holder
Original materials provided by the University of Kentucky and Yale University libraries and digitized with the permission of the Warren estate. Digital archive created and designed by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.

Contributing Institution
Jean and Alexander Heard Library (Vanderbilt University)

Rights