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Transcript of Interview with Clark by Eugene Walker for Southern Oral History Program; Atlanta, Georgia, 30 July 1976.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9

Scope and Contents note

Interview focuses mostly on Southern Christian Leadership Conference, its programs transferred from the Highlander Center, and Clark's estimation of SCLC staff including Dorothy Cotton, Ella Baker, James Woods; Wyatt T. Walker, Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young; and other civil rights workers such as Stokely Carmichael. She mentions government spying on activities at Highlander and its being shut down, comments on the movement's successes and failures, and testifies to Martin Luther King's true nonviolence. With references to the unfriendly attitudes towards women by SCLC staff (especially Ralph Abernathy), Martin Luther King's visit to Charleston in 1967, his giving away of his Nobel Prize money and experiences such as a Ku Klux Klan mob in Natchez, Mississippi.

Dates

  • Creation: 1960-1988 and undated

Creator

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

Extent

From the Collection: 11.5 linear feet (15 archival boxes, 3 record cartons, 2 oversize boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository

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