Zinn --Interview transcripts, 1963-1965 (Howard Zinn Papers, 1956-1994; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 588, Box 3, Folder 10)
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This folder includes interview transcriptions--primarily about the importance of the Freedom Vote as a protest and organizing tactic--with Bob Moses (1963); Aaron Henry (1965); Allard Lowenstein (1965); Jesse Harris (1965); Bill Higgs (1965); Marion Barry, Jr. (1965), James Forman (1965), Tim Jenkins (1965), Rev. R.L.T. "Bob" Smith (1965), and Howard Zinn (1965). Interestingly, after so much talk about the importance of the Freedom Vote as a tool to raise political and grassroots consciousness in Mississippi, Howard Zinn says, "I don't think the nation ever really knew about the freedom vote." In addition, Jesse Harris gives examples of the U.S. Justice's Department's collusion with the Mississippi power structure against civil rights workers in voter registration issues. Bill Higgs, a white lawyer, talks about being run out of the state of Mississippi. Marion Barry talks about COFO's origins. All of these speakers depict the civil rights movement as one that mostly evolved out of emer
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- Arrest
- Assault And Battery
- Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898 1987
- Barry, Marion, 1936
- Belafonte, Harry, 1927
- Bikel, Theodore
- Britt, Travis
- Bryant, Curtis C., 1917 2007
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Clergy
- Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914 1991
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Cox, Harold
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Demonstrations
- Dennis, David
- Doar, John, 1921
- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
- Evers, Charles, 1922
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Food Drives
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Vote
- Green, Dewey
- Gregory, Dick
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Higgs, Bill
- Hurst, E. H
- Intimidation
- Jails
- Jenkins, Tim
- Jones, Charlie
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
- King, Edward
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- Lawyers
- Lee, Herbert
- Lindsay, Kel
- Lowenstein, Allard K
- Lynching
- Marshall, Burke, 1922
- Mass Media
- Meredith, James, 1933
- Mississippi Free Press
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Moore, Amzie
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Murder
- Music
- Nash, Diane, 1938
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Nonviolence
- Police
- Seeger, Pete, 1919
- Segregation
- Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
- Smith, William
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901 1995
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Threats
- Travis, Brenda
- Tremmel, Theodore
- United States
- United States National Student Association
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
- Universities
- University Of Mississippi
- Volunteers
- Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
- Voter Registration
- White Citizens Councils
- Whites
- Whitten, Jamie
- Wilkins, Roy, 1901 1981
- Williams, John Bell