Judge Bernard Fielding |
interviewed |
Civil Rights, NAACP, judiciary |
Dr. June Finer |
interviewed |
Medical Committee for Human Rights, SNCC (MS, AL, LA) in 1960s-70s |
Henry Foner |
interviewed |
Henry Foner, labor leader, historian, songwriter, and newspaper editor, was president of the Joint Board, Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union, for 27 years. He was a social activist for civil rights and social justice, and against the Vietnam War. After retiring in 1988, he taught labor history and wrote for the journal Jewish Currents, among many other activities. In 2003, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. Topics: Archie Waters, unions, Fur and Leather Workers Union, ALBA, songs |
William H. Foster |
interviewed |
Prof. William H. Foster III, who teaches English Literature at Naugatucket Valley Community College, talks about the riots in Philadelphia between black and white students in his high school at the time Dr. King was assassinated. His narrative includes the good relations between the black and white students in the English class taught by a faculty member he identifies as "Ms. Hurwitz" and how during the riot the black students defended their white classmates from abuse. He discusses his care for black history and how blacks were represented in literature, including in comic books, about which he is an expert. He mentions works of literature about historic black leaders and their accomplishments right up to 2005. |
Jack T. Franklin |
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Jack T. Franklin (1922-2009), Philadelphia photographer of the black experience for decades, donated his collection of over 500,000 negatives and photographs to the African American Museum in Philadelphia in 1986. |
James Gavin III |
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Arnold Goldwag |
interviewed |
Arnold Goldwag’s (1938-2008) civil rights and labor activism began as Community Relations Director for the radical Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the 1960s, including 27 arrests in the South and North. His successful strategies included challenging grocery store owners in Bedford-Stuyvesant to eat the spoiled food they sold at inflated prices to poor black people. He was the Health Safety Coordinator with SSEU, Local 371 AFSCME for 26 years. Brooklyn CORE, Maryland sit-ins |
Pamela Green |
interviewed |
African American History, Weeksville, Racism, Civil Rights |
Ricardo Grijalva |
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Inge Hardison |
interviewed |
Inge Hardison, the American sculptor, actor, and photographer, celebrated her 100th birthday on February 3, 2014. She is best known for a series of bronze busts begun in 1963 of African Americans who fought slavery and led the struggle for civil rights, and who at that time had not yet been acknowledged in the National Hall of Fame in Washington, DC. She is shown left with her portrait of Sojourner Truth (photo credit: Manu Sassoonian). She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and began her artistic career acting in Broadway plays. During one production, “What a Life,” her sculptural portraits of fellow cast members were exhibited in the Mansfield Theater lobby, and this was the beginning of her career as a sculptor. For fuller biographical details, click the name link, left. |
Conrad Harper |
interviewed |
Civil Rights, NAACP, school desegregation, nuclear disarmament |
Rev. Forrest Harris |
interviewed |
Segregation, sharecropping, sit-ins, teaching diversity, theology |
Jack Hasegawa |
interviewed |
Jack Hasegawa was born during World War II, when his parents and other Japanese American citizens had been relocated in internment camps. His father served with distinction in the US Army in Italy. Jack was a passionate student activist for civil rights with Dr. King in the South, and a community organizer in Boston and Asia. He served on the US Commission on Civil Rights. His career with Conn. State Dept. of Education included supervising projects to reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation and to increase fairness in public education. On retiring, he became Exec. Dir. of 4-H Education Center at Auer Farm in Bloomfield. Click on the name link, left, for a more detailed listing of the interview topics. |
Yoshino Hasegawa |
interviewed |
Yoshino Hasegawa’s parents had come to the US from Japan, and she was born in Dinuba, California in 1921. She describes the impact on their lives, along with over 110,000 other people of Japanese descent, of being forced from their homes and relocated in internment camps. She tells of American citizens of Italian and German descent, as well as Japanese descent, who were in those camps, and of her marriage during that time. At age 55, after raising 5 children and earning her master's degree, Mrs. Hasegawa became head librarian in the central library in Fresno, California. There she conducted a huge oral history project consisting of many interviews with Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans about their lives, including in the camps. For more, click the name link, left. |
Dr. Robert B. Hayling |
Dr. Robert Hayling, hailed as the "father" of civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida, barely escaped death by the KKK, and continues fighting racism right up to today. |
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Dr. James Hefner |
interviewed |
Segregation, sit-ins, black colleges |
Rev. Arthur Hilson |
interviewed |
Dr. Arthur L. Hilson is a civil rights activist, Baptist minister, educator, and a commissioner of Human Rights for New Hampshire. His rich, various work includes having marched with Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the South. He has taught at the Universities of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, is pastor (for 21 years) of New Hope Baptist Church, and founding president of the Portsmouth Chapter of SCLC and of Amherst NAACP. Click on the name link, left, to read more about his exciting work at at Portsmouth High School, where he teaches history, world religion, the 1960s, and classes called Another View—with a broad-ranging curriculum centered on diversity. |
Julian Holliday |
interviewed |
Julian Holliday (1934-2008) was originally from Clarendon County, and took part in desegregation efforts there both before and after his military service in the Korean War. Click on the name link, left, to read more about him, including an event honoring his memory at St. John's Baptist Church in West Harlem, New York City. |
Joseph H. Holt, Jr. |
interviewed |
Joseph H. Holt, Jr. was born in Raleigh. Joe and his parents, Elwyna and Joseph Sr. led the fight to integrate Raleigh Public Schools shortly after the 1954 Brown v. Board ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. He was 13 at the time, and their fight went on for many years. Their courageous story is recounted in the award-winning documentary, "Exhausted Remedies: Joe Holt's Story." Joe Holt, Jr. served in the US Air Force, and his 25 year career included duties as a navigator on multi-engine jet transport aircraft on transoceanic and transcontinental airlift missions flown all over the world. Now retired, he continues to work as a volunteer with veterans groups and community health care support organizations. |
Leamon Hood |
interviewed |
Leamon Hood, in Atlanta, helped organize the Classified School employees in AFSCME, joining the union in 1964 himself, after union president Jerry Wurf removed racial barriers of segregation. He was one of its most active members, and in 1967 became a charter member in the Union's Staff Intern Program. In 1970 he was a nationwide organizer, including as Area Director in Michigan, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia. In 1999 he was appointed as Regional Director for Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. He was an AFSCME local organizer in the cold winter of the 1977 Atlanta Sanitation Workers strike, saying that workers should manage their workplace free of bosses sitting in warm offices of city hall. Topics: Memphis & Atlanta sanitation strikes, AFSCME, union activism |
Benjamin Hooks |
interviewed |
(January 31, 1925 – April 15, 2010) Segregation, lawsuits, NAACP, black business |
Frances Hooks |
interviewed |
Segregation, Rosenwald School, education, NAACP |
Jason Hughes |
interviewed |
Segregation, black publishing |
Doris Humphries |
interviewed |
Racism, the dance |
Earl Ijames |
interviewed |
Earl L. Ijames is curator of community history and African-American history at the N.C. Museum of History (NCMH) in Raleigh. He has hosted and conducted numerous genealogy and history sessions with individuals and organizations statewide. He is often interviewed on radio and television on a wide range of people and events in North Carolina history — from the U.S. Colored Troops of the Civil War and the Daughters of the Confederacy, to the Rosenwald Schools. His many credits include serving as host and panelist for the 2009 African-American Genealogy and History Forum and National Genealogical Society Conference, From Roanoke to the West. His interviews with many North Carolinians include Pvt. Robert Hodge, WWI (1888-2004), possibly our nation’s oldest veteran. For detailed credits, please go to the name link at left. |
Eugenia Ijames |
interviewed |
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Bishop Frederick Calhoun James |
interviewed |
Bishop Frederick Calhoun James, a distinguished ecumenical theologian, activist for Civil Rights and social justice, political leader and public servant, was born in Prosperity, SC. In 1967, Rev. James led the sponsorship of the first 221(d) Rent Supplement Housing Project in South Carolina, and later, the first 221(h) Home Ownership Project in the state. In 1972 he was elected to the AME Bishopric and served as Presiding Bishop in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia, and Mozambique. In 1994 he served as President Clinton’s delegate to the inauguration of South African President Nelson Mandela. In 2003 Bishop James was awarded the state's highest honor, The Order of the Palmetto, for his significant contributions. Bishop James is Chairman of The Howard Junior High School Restoration Center, whose purpose is to restore and maintain this historic Rosenwald School in Prosperity, SC. For more, go to the name link, left. |
Kelvin Jervay |
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Paul Jervay, Jr. |
interviewed |
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Johnnie Jones, Sr. |
interviewed |
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Doris Johnson |
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Dr. John Mitchell |
interviewed |
The interview took place at Hamlin Drug Store in Raleigh, NC. Originally opened in 1907, Hamlin is likely the oldest African American owned pharmacy in the United States. Since 1957, pharmacist John Johnson has owned and operated Hamlin and proudly keeps the traditions of hospitality and excellent customer service-- offered by the founders over a century ago. He works six days a week and enjoys greeting generations of customers by name. Dr. Johnson shares this legacy with his daughters, Mischelle Corbin and Kimberley Scott, and together they give priority to supporting centers for homeless people and battered women, an intern program for Wake County Public School System students, and mentoring pharmacy students. Over 350 employees, most of whom were college students, have worked there. Follow this link to learn more about the history of the Hamlin Drug Store. |
Mabel Katz |
interviewed |
Mabel Katz came to LA from Argentina. She teacher of the ancient Hawaiian art of Ho’oponopono, and is a Latino rights activist and Mideast peace advocate. |
Pamela Kellar |
interviewed |
Racism, school desegregation as a child |
Rev. Marcel Kellar |
interviewed |
Racism, school desegregation, ministry |
Ken Kimmelman |
interviewed |
Ken Kimmelman is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker/director and Aesthetic Realism Consultant, known for his anti-prejudice films The Heart Knows Better, Brushstrokes, and Asimbonanga and for Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana. |
Clarke King |
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Clarke King is Exec. VP, Greater Hartford Central Labor Council—a coalition fighting for the rights of 140,000 workers. He is the first African American president of AFSCME Local 1716 Council 4, representing 35,000 people in CT. He is also president of Greater Hartford African American Alliance, a community organization to protect for the rights of black people in the workplace. He was the first president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, CT Chapter. Clarke joined the UAW in 1965, working as a heat treater at Colt Firearms. From 1975-91 he worked in the UAW Manpower Program, representing workers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico. |
Lonnie King |
interviewed |
Atlanta Student Movement |
Dr. Robert Kirton
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Dr. Robert Kirton is an educator and CEO/Founder of Brotherhood of Achievers Determined to Make a Difference, Columbia, SC. To read the transcript of his interview with Alice Bernstein, go to the name link, left. | |
Rev. Samuel “Billy” Kyles |
interviewed |
Segregation, demonstrations, Memphis sanitation strike, Martin Luther King assassination |
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Ted Landsmark |
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Interracial camps, voter registration in South, Racism in Boston, gangs |
John Lemon |
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John Lemon, former president of the Bronx NAACP, grew up in Clarendon County, SC. His father, Joseph Lemon, Sr. encouraged the parents who filed the first lawsuit to desegregate public schools, in Briggs v. Elliott. When lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who was black, went before the all-white three-judge panel in Charleston—a first in South Carolina—John Lemon’s father took him, his brothers, and his sisters to the courthouse to see history in the making. A white judge, J. Waties Waring, ruled in behalf of the black plaintiffs. While Briggs v. Elliot did not win a majority, it led the way to the 1954 Supreme Court's ruling "Brown v. Board of Education", outlawing segregation in public schools. Mr. Lemon has spoken about his family's experiences at many Alliance of Ethics&Art events. For a fuller account, go to the name link, left. |
Malinda Maynard Lowery |
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Malinda Maynor Lowery, PhD., a Lumbee Indian, was born in Robeson County, NC. Her grandparents and her parents —Louise and Waltz Maynor—all became educators. She earned a Ph.D. in History from UNC-Chapel Hill, and is an Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University. Her research concerns Native American identity and politics in the late 19th and 20th centuries in North Carolina, and she has produced three documentary films about Native American issues, including the award-winning In the Light of Reverence, which aired on PBS in 2001 to over three million people. Her films have been shown nationwide in classrooms, at conferences, and at film festivals. Lowery serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Carolina Arts Network, a non-profit organization headquartered in Robeson County that produces the outdoor drama, Strike at the Wind! For a fuller account, go to the name link, left. |
Milton Long |
interviewed |
Milton Long, now of Charlotte, attended school at the time of the Massive Resistance policy adopted in 1956 by Virginia's state government to defy the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Mr. Long’s parents were activists for equal education. In 1960, as a 2nd grader, Milton, and his sisters, Rosalind (5th grade), and Cecelia (7th grade) were among the first seven children to integrate the Roanoke, Virginia schools. This was the second integration in the State of Virginia. “Each year thereafter,” Mr. Long has written, “a few more African American students joined the ranks, to help fulfill the dream my parents, George and Arletha Long, had for equal education for all people.” |
Bob Lucas |
interviewed |
Chicago CORE 1965-68, equal housing, Martin Luther King, Cicero March |
William Lucy |
interviewed |
William “Bill” Lucy, AFSCME Sec.-Treasurer, retired in 2010 after a 57- year labor career. Still active, he addressed NYC school bus drivers at a strike rally in January 2013. He founded the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) in 1972, and stood with Dr. King in the Memphis Sanitation Strike, and for civil rights and labor struggles here and with Nelson Mandela, against apartheid in South Africa. In 1956, with a degree in Engineering, he joined AFSCME Local 1675 union of Contra Costa, California as a materials and research engineer and was elected president in 1965. In 1966 he left to work for the AFSCME international organization as associate director of the legislation and community affairs departments. Topics: Civil Rights, unions, CBTU, Martin Luther King, Memphis Sanitation workers strike |
Frank and Beatrice Lumpkin |
interviewed |
Frank Lumpkin (1916-2010), son of Georgia cotton sharecroppers, was a professional boxer, orange picker, construction worker, merchant seaman, and then a steelworker at Wisconsin Steel (WS) for 30 years. When WS closed without paying workers in Chicago, he organized the Save Our Jobs Committee, which fought for 17 years, winning settlements of $19 million. Always Bring a Crowd, the story of his life, was written by his wife of 60 years, Beatrice Lumpkin.Topics: Unions, Racism, Multicultural Education |
