McGhee, Silas interviewed by Joseph Sinsheimer, 1987 February 25
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Civil rights activist in Greenwood, MS. Interview with Sinsheimer. McGhee discussed: his reaction to the Freedom Rides and the North Carolina sit-ins in 1960-1961; his attempt to integrate the Leflore Theater in Greenwood in 1963; speaking at a mass meeting in Clarksdale, MS; working to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in the state; the organization of a SNCC "folk festival" on his family's property in 1963 that featured a performance by Bob Dylan; reaction to Medgar Evers' shooting in Greenwood.
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