An archival collection of interviews conducted for Robert Penn Warren's seminal book
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14 records found where subject: African Americans -- Education. showing records 1 - 10.
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1 Interview with Bayard Rustin
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Bayard Rustin
Recording Date: 1964 (probably later than most interviews) 		Abstract (snippet):
Rustin expounds at length on strategies for the civil rights movement and the advancement of African Americans in general. He favors integration over separatism and believes that identity is found in struggle, not culture. He believes that the Afri... [more]
2 Interview with Dan W. Dodson
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Dan W. Dodson
Recording Date: Apr. 8, 1964 		Abstract (snippet):
Dodson discusses efforts to end de facto segregation of public schools, primarily in New York City. He talks about the philosophy behind this effort, and describes de facto segregation as a failure to educate adequately, not only as a civil rights i... [more]
3 Interview with Ezell Blair, Stokely Carmichael, Lucy Thornton and Jean Wheeler
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Ezell A. Blair, Jr.; Stokely Carmichael; Lucy Thornton ; Jean Wheeler
Recording Date: Mar. 4, 1964 		Abstract (snippet):
Throughout this interview, each person describes the civil rights movement and touches on the changes happening during the 1960s. At the beginning, Ezell Blair describes how the historic sit-in at Woolworth's in Greeensboro, N.C., started, who was i... [more]
4 Interview with Jackson State College students
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Jackson State College students
Recording Date: Feb. 12 [1964] 		Abstract (snippet):
Students discuss how race discrimination is exercised differently in the North and the South, and the relative difficulties of fighting it in each section. Warren quotes James Baldwin to the effect that there will be no solution in the South until t... [more]
5 Interview with James Farmer, Jr.
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): James Farmer, Jr.
Recording Date: June 11, 1964 		Abstract (snippet):
In this interview, Farmer describes his involvement in the founding of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the group's emphasis on nonviolent direct action. He states that he believes most black men and women are simply concerned with getting ... [more]
6 Interview with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Martin Luther King, Jr.
Recording Date: Mar. 18, 1964 		Abstract (snippet):
King talks about the continuity between his and his father's work as civil rights activists, and points to his formal training in nonviolence as a difference. He discusses the "next phase" that will follow the civil rights "phase" for African Americ... [more]
7 Interview with Ralph Ellison
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Ralph Ellison
Recording Date: Feb. 25 [1964] 		Abstract (snippet):
Ellison believes that a black person's experience is determined by the region in which it takes place. This is why he believes it is no accident many of the civil rights leaders are from the South. What a man learns from how he grows up affects how h... [more]
8 Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Septima Poinsette Clark
Recording Date: Mar. 18 [1964] 		Abstract (snippet):
Clark recounts childhood experiences in Charleston, S.C., that led her to civil rights activism and education. She talks about her adult experience as a teacher and an advocate for adult literacy. She speaks of improvements in race relations over t... [more]
9 Interview with Stokely Carmichael
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Stokely Carmichael
Recording Date: Mar. 4, 1964 		Abstract (snippet):
Carmichael describes attending the Bronx High School of Science, where he was one of only a few black students. He describes how he had to develop his own intellectual background to keep pace with his white classmates. He recalls the effect of his e... [more]
10 Interview with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Interviewer: Robert Penn Warren
Interviewee(s): Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Recording Date: Mar. 17, 1964 		Abstract (snippet):
In this interview, Vernon Jordan describes his early life. He recalls attending a segregated high school in Atlanta where a man named Paul Lawrence came to speak with students about the National Services Scholarship Fund. After meeting Mr. Lawrence, ... [more]
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