Center for Documentary Studies, SNCC Legacy Project Critical Oral Histories Conference Interviews, 2016-2018, 2016-2018

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies
Abstract:
Digital videos, photographs, and transcripts documenting critical oral history conferences in 2016 and 2018, with Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee veterans, hosted by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The 2016 Critical Oral Histories Conference focused on "The Emergence of Black Power, 1964-1967," while the 2018 Critical Oral Histories Conference focused on the efforts directly leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Extent:
260 Files (MP4 video files, JPEG image files, MP3 audio files, PDF text files, and plain text files.)
75 Gigabytes
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11446

Background

Scope and content:

Digital videos, photographs, and transcripts documenting critical oral history conferences in 2016 and 2018, with Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee veterans, hosted by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The Critical Oral Histories Conference in 2016 and 2018 were an extension of the SNCC Legacy Project that placed SNCC veterans in conversation with scholars using primary source materials. The events were produced by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the SNCC Legacy Project. Series One contains the 2016 Conference interviews, in which narrators focused on the years 1964-1967, to discuss the emergence of "Black Power" as an ideological concept as well as political and economic framework. Participants included Charlie Cobb, Courtland Cox, Gloria House, Phil Hutchings, Jen Lawson, Charles McLaurin, Cleve Sellers, Shirley Sherrod, Karen Spellman, Judy Richardson, Maria Varela, Geri Augusto, Emilye Crosby, Worth Long, Hasan Jeffries, Betty Mae Fikes, Bertha O'Neal, John O'Neal, Michael Simmons, and Zoharah Simmons. Series Two contains the 2018 Conference interviews, in which narrators focused on the efforts directly leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, with participants including Phillip Agnew, Geri Augusto, Rebecah Barber, Kenneth A. Campbell, Charles Cobb, Courtland Cox, Emilye Crosby, Amber Delgado, David (Dave) Dennis, Sr., Ajamu Dillahunt, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Timothy (Tim) L. Jenkins, Edwin King, Dorie Ann Ladner, Jennifer Lawson, Danita Mason-Hogans, Miles McKeller-Smith, Charles McLaurin, Ambria McNeill, Aja Monet Bacquie, Janet Moses, Robert Moses, Edna Watkins Muhammad, Quinn Osment, Timothy B. Tyson, Hollis Watkins, and Curtis Wilkie.

Biographical / historical:

In 2013, the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University formed the SNCC Digital Gateway in order to chronicle the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop ongoing programs that contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of SNCC efforts in the broader Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.

Acquisition information:
The Center for Documentary Studies, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Critical Oral Histories Conference Interviews were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2016 and 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Craig Breaden, April, 2017. Revised by Laurin Penland, April 2019.

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2016-0293, 2019-0023.

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Arranged chronologically.

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[Identification of item], Center for Documentary Studies, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Critical Oral Histories Conference Interviews, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.