| Title: |
Umoja Kwanguvu
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
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| Collection: |
Civil Rights Documentation Project
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| Description: |
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born 1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws in the 1950s, provoked his students to question a long-accepted attitude of racial "untouchability", and was arrested in 1953 for drinking from a water fountain in Birmingham, Alabama, labeled "white". In 1964, he was arrested with James Farmer, the founder of CORE (Congress for Racial Equality), as they picketed the New York World's Fair because of inadequate and demeaning employment of non-white people. That same summer, he was arrested in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for attempting to desegregate the public library.
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| Extent: |
1 page
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/kwanguvu.htm
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| Restrictions: |
It is presented here for reference purposes only. Interviews in this collection are protected by copyright and
PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MUST BE REQUESTED
from the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Kwanguvu, Umoja, 1925-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1925
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Birmingham, AL; Alabama; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Civil rights activist
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| Age at speaking: |
74
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| Document date: |
08-Jun-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Ramirez, Sarah
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| Organizations discussed: |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, US; White Citizens Council
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| Historical events discussed: |
Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-
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| Locations discussed: |
Mississippi; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements--United States; Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963; Mississippi; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; North America; Oral history; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, US; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-; United States; White Citizens Council
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Activism
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0023595-25111
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