Who Speaks for the Negro, Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

An archival collection of interviews conducted for Robert Penn Warren's seminal book


By Interviewee	By Name/Subject

Original materials (recordings) through the generous support of
the University of Kentucky and Yale University.
Some abstracts courtesy of the University of Kentucky.
Support from Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University

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• ACT (Civil rights organization) (1) • Adult literacy programs (1) • Africa (3) • African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1) • African American businesspeople (2) • African American churches (2) • African American families (2) • African American lawyers -- Louisiana -- New Orleans (1) • African American lawyers -- Tennessee -- Nashville (1) • African American leadership (14) • African American young adults -- Knowledge of civil rights movement (1) • African Americans -- Communication (1) • African Americans -- Economic conditions (11) • African Americans -- Education (14) • African Americans -- Education (Higher) (5) • African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Louisiana (1) • African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Mississippi (1) • African Americans -- Education -- Connecticut -- Bridgeport (1) • African Americans -- Education -- New York -- New York (5) • African Americans -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland (2) • African Americans -- Employment (3) • African Americans -- Employment -- Louisiana -- New Orleans (1) • African Americans -- Employment -- Maryland -- Cambridge (1) • African Americans -- Employment -- Mississippi (1) • African Americans -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1) • African Americans -- Historiography (3) • African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Economic conditions (1) • African Americans -- Maryland -- Cambridge -- Economic conditions (1) • African Americans -- Mississippi -- Relations with Jews (1) • African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Economic conditions (2) • African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Relations with other minorities (1) • African Americans -- Political party affiliation (1) • African Americans -- Psychology (1) • African Americans -- Race identity (17) • African Americans -- Relations with Jews (2) • African Americans -- Religion (4) • Arizona (1) • Baton Rouge (La.) (1) • Baton Rouge Biracial Committee (1) • Beckwith, Byron de la -- Trials, litigation, etc. (4) • Birmingham (Ala.) (1) • Black Muslims (5) • Boycotts -- Tennessee -- Nashville (2) • Bridgeport (Conn.) (1) • Bronx High School of Science (1) • Brown, John (1) • Busing for school integration (8) • Busing for school integration -- New York -- New York (1) • Cambridge (Md.) (1) • Capital punishment (1) • Catholic Church (1) • Charleston (S.C.) (2) • Christianity and the civil rights movement (6) • Church integration -- Connecticut -- Bridgeport (1) • Citizenship Education Program (1) • Civil rights demonstrations (6) • Civil rights demonstrations -- Alabama -- Birmingham (1) • Civil rights demonstrations -- North Carolina -- Greensboro (1) • Civil rights demonstrations -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1) • Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Nashville (3) • Civil rights leadership (14) • Civil rights legislation (7) • Civil rights workers -- Violence against (6) • Civil rights workers -- Violence against -- Maryland -- Cambridge (1) • Civil rights workers -- Violence against -- Mississippi (1) • Civil rights workers -- Violence against -- New York -- New York (1) • Civil rights workers -- Violence against -- Tennessee -- Nashville (1) • Clark, Kenneth Bancroft (2) • Cleveland (Ohio) (2) • College integration (1) • College integration -- Connecticut -- Hartford (1) • College integration -- Louisiana (1) • College integration -- Mississippi (1) • Congress of Racial Equality (6) • Dawson, William L. (2) • DePauw University (1) • Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Louisiana -- New Orleans (1) • Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Mississippi (2) • Discrimination in employment (2) • Discrimination in employment -- Louisiana -- New Orleans (1) • Discrimination in employment -- MIssissippi (1) • Discrimination in employment -- Maryland -- Cambridge (1) • Discrimination in housing (6) • Discrimination in justice administration -- Louisiana -- New Orleans (1) • Discrimination in public accommodations -- Louisiana -- Baton Rouge (1) • Discrimination in public accommodations -- Louisiana -- New Orleans (1) • Discrimination in public accommodations -- North Carolina -- Greensboro (1) • Discrimination in public accommodations -- Tennessee -- Nashville (3) • Discrimination in the military (2) • Du Bois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) (2) • Educational equalization (12) • Educational equalization -- Connecticut -- Bridgeport (1) • Educational equalization -- New York -- New York (5) • Educational equalization -- Ohio -- Cleveland (2)	• Evers, Medgar (2) • Evers, Medgar -- Assassination (2) • Farmer, James, Jr. (2) • Fisk University (1) • Frazier, Edward Franklin (1) • Freedom Rides, 1961 (2) • Galamison, Milton A. (6) • Gandhi, Mahatma (1) • Garrison, William Lloyd (1) • Grant, Ulysses S. (1) • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) (1) • Hartford Theological Seminary (1) • Hedgeman, Anna Arnold (1) • Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) (1) • Interracial marriage (1) • Islam (1) • Jackson (Miss.) (1) • Jefferson, Thomas (4) • Johnson, Lyndon B. (1) • Johnson, Paul B., Jr. (1) • Kennedy, John F. (2) • Kimbell, Elmer Otis -- Trials, litigation, etc. (1) • King, Martin Luther, Jr. (9) • King, Martin Luther, Sr. (1) • Lawson, James M., Jr. (1) • Lee, Robert E. (3) • Liberalism (1) • Lincoln, Abraham (10) • Looby, Z. Alexander (Zephaniah Alexander) (1) • Louisiana (1) • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963 (1) • Mecca (Saudi Arabia) (1) • Melton, Clinton (1) • Memphis (Tenn.) (1) • Meredith, James (1) • Middle class African Americans (5) • Miscegenation (2) • Mississippi (2) • Mississippi Freedom Project (1) • Mississippi State Penitentiary (1) • Mound Bayou (Miss.) (1) • Myrdal, Gunnar (7) • Nashville (Tenn.) (5) • Nashville Christian Leadership Council (1) • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (6) • New Orleans (La.) (2) • New York (N.Y.) (6) • New York World's Fair (1964-1965) (1) • Nonviolence (17) • North and South compared (in race relations) (14) • Occupational training (2) • Police -- Mississippi (2) • Police -- South Carolina -- Charleston (1) • Police -- Southern States (2) • Police -- Tennessee -- Nashville (1) • Political ethics (1) • Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (3) • Proctor, Samuel D. (1) • Race -- Philosophy (1) • Randolph, A. Philip (1) • Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) (7) • Reverse discrimination in employment (6) • Roosevelt, Eleanor (1) • Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1) • School integration (11) • School integration -- Connecticut -- Bridgeport (1) • School integration -- New York -- New York (6) • School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland (2) • Segregation in transportation (1) • Self-defense (2) • Silver, James W. (1) • Sit-ins (1) • Sit-ins -- North Carolina -- Greensboro (1) • Sit-ins -- Tennessee -- Nashville (3) • Slave insurrections (1) • Smith, Kelly Miller (1) • Spirituals (Songs) (1) • Strikes and lockouts (1) • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) (2) • Unemployment -- Maryland -- Cambridge (1) • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 (2) • United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (1) • Universities and colleges, Black (3) • University of MIssissippi (1) • Vanderbilt University. Divinity School (1) • Violence in the civil rights movement (12) • Voter registration -- Mississippi (2) • Washington, Booker T. (2) • White Citizens Council (1) • White civil rights workers (5) • Whites -- Southern States (11) • Wilkins, Roy (2) • Womanpower Unlimited (1) • X, Malcolm (7)
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