Ed King Interview
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Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1970 |
ISBN-10 | : LCCN:2015555667 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Discusses the role of whites in the civil rights movement, relating the reasons for his own reluctant entry but later his deep involvement. Discusses the 1963 Freedom Vote project--a mock statewide election staged with the help of northern white college students--which ran Aaron Henry of the Mississippi chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for governor and himself for lieutenant governor. Comments on the role and strategies of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and its formal challenge to the state Democratic regulars during the 1968 national convention; race relations in Mississippi during the 1960s; the heightening conflicts between police and civil rights activists; the growing mood of Black militancy; Medger Evers' activities on college campuses; and the Freedom Summer of 1964. No tape available. Interviewer: James M. Mosby, Jr.