Box 15

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Includes reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Reddick's historic overview of the civil rights era.

Scope and Contents note Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Recording is barely audible and contains heavy traffic noise in the background. Parks's brief speech (fully transcribed) describes growing up in racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama; working with the NAACP; challenges regarding voter registration in the 1940s; Parks's 1955 encounter of refusing to give her seat to a white man; the bus boycott with support from the Montgomery Improvement Association, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph...

Scope and Contents note Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Transcript of Lewis' speech is included. Lewis relates his early years growing up in Troy, Alabama; his feelings about the Montgomery bus boycott; attending college at American Baptist Seminary; his experience at Highlander; working in the civil rights struggle with Reverends C.P. Vivian, James Lawson, Kelly Miller Smith and Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr., the NAACP, Congress for Racial Equality (CORE); attending workshops for non-violence; his...

Scope and Contents note Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Transcript of Hamer's speech is included. Hamer focuses on the period of 1960-1970, relating her experience as a timekeeper on a Ruleville, Mississippi plantation; describing acts of resistance towards the plantation owner; gaining political awareness through her first mass meeting in 1962; her experience in taking a literacy test to obtain a voter registration card in Indianola, Mississippi, resulting in Hamer becoming a fugitive for several...

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Original photographs are located in Avery's photograph collection files.