Stanford University Project South Oral History Program

About

"During the summer of 1965, eight students from Stanford University spent ten weeks in the Southern states tape recording information on the civil rights movement. The eight interviewers were sponsored by KZSU, Stanford's student radio station, and their original intent was to gather material suitable for rebroadcasting as radio programs. In addition to interviewing members of various well-known civil rights groups (e.g., Congress of Racial Equality, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), the student interviewers also recorded the formal and independent remarks of those working with smaller civil rights projects, of local blacks associated with the civil rights movement, and of many others including Ku Klux Klansmen and Southerners connected with the sheriff's department of Clay County, Mississippi. Also interviewed were many White volunteers who participated in SNCC's Washington Lobby, aimed at unseating the all-White Mississippi Congressional delegation, but who did not actually go to the South." --Preface.
A part of the New York Times Oral History Program

Location

Library Annex Cabinets E 185.61 S7

Format

Microfiche

Arrangement

In 20 sections, each dealing with a different organization or topic, e.g., Congress of Racial Equality, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, etc./dd>

Items

68 fiche

Publication

Microfiche