Charlie Cobb Interviews, 2012-2014

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Summary

Creator:
Cobb, Charles E., Jr.
Abstract:
Audio interviews and programs recorded by Charles E. Cobb, Jr., from 2012 to 2014, with members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and others around the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer and for research for Cobb's book, THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF'LL GET YOU KILLED: HOW GUNS MADE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT POSSIBLE.
Extent:
98 Files (85 audio files (MP3), 13 document files (Microsoft Word))
3.04 Gigabytes
Language:
English
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11333

Background

Scope and content:

Audio interviews and programs recorded by Charles E. Cobb, Jr., from 2012 to 2014, with members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and others around the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer and for research for Cobb's book, THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF'LL GET YOU KILLED: HOW GUNS MADE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT POSSIBLE. Transcripts are available for a portion of the interviews. Interviewees and speakers include: Shawn Leigh Alexander, Carol Anderson, Annie Pearl Avery, Willie Blue, Julian Bond, Simeon Booker, Taylor Branch, Fred Brooks, Patricia Ann Brooks, Dorothy Burlage, Jackie Byrd, Clayborne Carson, Hodding Carter, the Chinn Family, Purcell Conway, Mac Cotton, Courtland Cox, Connie Curry, Dave Dennis, John Dittmer, John Doar, Ivanhoe Donaldson, LC Dorsey, Myrlie Evers, George Greene, Carol Hallstrom, Vincent Harding, Jessie Harris, Don Harris, Bruce Hartford, Charles Jones, Lonnie King, Dorie Ladner, Bernard Lafayette, Jim Lawson, Worth Long, Deborah Well McCoy, Chuck McDew, Charles McLaurin, Leslie Mclemore, Bob Moses, Christopher Parker, Willie Peacock, Bernice Reagon, Willie Ricks, Reggie Robinson, Cleve Sellers,Charles and Shirley Sherrod, Jane Stembridge, Patricia Sullivan, Flukie Swarez, Corey Walker, and Hollis Watkins. Topics include: civil rights, SNCC, non-violence, guns, and the backgrounds of interview participants.

Biographical / historical:

Charles E. Cobb, Jr., was born in Washington D.C. in 1943. He became active in the Civil Rights Movement while studying at Howard University, and in 1962 traveled to Mississippi, where he was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963, Cobb advocated for Freedom Schools as a way to develop political awareness and involvement by African Americans in Mississippi. After leaving Mississippi in 1967, Cobb helped found the Washington D.C. bookstore Drum and Spear, continued his efforts in African American education with the Center for Black Education, and began a long career in journalism, working for WHUR Radio, National Public Radio, Frontline, and National Geographic. Cobb has been a visiting professor of Africana studies at Brown University, an analyst for allAfrica.com, and is a founding member, and hall of fame inductee, of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Acquisition information:
The Charlie Cobb interviews were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2015.
Processing information:

Processed by Craig Breaden, November 2016.

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2015-0197.

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Subjects

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Subjects:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Project
Civil rights movements -- Southern States
African American
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Firearms ownership--United States
Format:
Audiovisual materials
Digital audio formats
Oral histories (document genre)
Names:
Cobb, Charles E., Jr.
Alexander, Shawn Leigh
Anderson, Carol, 1937-
Avery, Annie Pearl, 1943-
Blue, Willie
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Booker, Simeon, 1918-
Branch, Taylor
Brooks, Fred, 1928-
Brooks, Patricia Ann
Burlage, Dorothy Dawson
Byrd, Jackie
Carson, Clayborne, 1944-
Carter, Hodding
Chinn, C.O.
Conway, Purcell Maurice, 1948-
Cotton, Mac
Cox, Courtland, 1941-
Curry, Constance, 1933-
Dennis, Dave
Dittmer, John, 1939-
Doar, John, 1921-2014
Donaldson, Ivanhoe
Dorsey, L. C. (Lula Clara Warren), 1938-
Evers-Williams, Myrlie
Greene, George
Hallstrom, Carol
Harding, Vincent
Harris, Donald (Donald Stuart)
Harris, Jessie
Hartford, Bruce (Civil rights activist)
Jones, Charles, 1937-
King, Lonnie C., 1936-
Ladner, Dorie
LaFayette, Bernard, Jr.
Lawson, James M., 1928-
Long, Worth W.
McCoy, Deborah Well
McDew, Charles
McLaurin, Charles
McLemore, Leslie Burl
Moses, Robert Parris
Parker, Christopher S., 1963-
Peacock, Wazir
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
Ricks, Willie Floyd
Robinson, Reggie
Sellers, Cleveland, 1944-
Sherrod, Charles, 1937-
Sherrod, Shirley, 1948-
Stembridge, Jane
Suarez, Mateo "Flukie"
Sullivan, Patricia, 1950-
Walker, Corey D. B.
Watkins, Hollis, 1941-

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