| Title: |
Sheila Michaels
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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: |
Interview conducted on 06-05-1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in New York. In 1962, she worked for both CORE and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Jackson, Mississippi, until she became a SNCC field secretary. In 1964, she became the project manager in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Hattiesburg project.
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| Extent: |
1 page
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/michaels.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: |
Michaels, Sheila, 1939-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1939
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| Speaker place of birth: |
St. Louis, MO; Missouri; 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: |
60
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| Document date: |
05-Jun-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Bolton, Charles
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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: |
OHI0023610-25128
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