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271. Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (1:36:21)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Civil right attorney Juanita Mitchell gives a brief history of the life of Charles Hamilton Houston. She describes Houston's legal case to admit Donald Gaines Murray to the University of ...

272. Interview with Juanita Kidd Stout (1:04:10)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Judge Juanita Kidd Stout remembers hearing Charles Houston speak in 1937 in the Gaines case in Missouri and describes what it was like in the courtroom. She talks about becoming a lawyer,...

273. Interview with Julius L. Chambers (1:00:27)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Footage of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund offices including that of civil rights attorney, professor, and NAACP director counsel Julius L. Chambers. Part two. Mr. Chambers d...

274. Interview with Leone Lane (40:31)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Mrs. Leone Lane describes her career as a teacher in Chester, South Carolina. J.W. Greene joins the interview at 7:26. Part two. Mrs. Leone Lane and J.W. Greene discuss the effects of int...

275. Interview with Lorin A. Thompson (1:21:58)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A
Summary:
Part one. Mr. Lorin Thompson discusses the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which in practice gave states the opportunity to close public schools in order to avoid desegrega...

276. Interview with Louis L. Redding (1:47:06)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-1998
Summary:
Part one. Civil rights attorney Louis Redding recalls his family, childhood, and going to Brown University. Part two. Mr. Redding tells his family’s history at Brown. After Harvard Law School, he r...

277. Interview with Louis T. Rader (40:51)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Historian William H. Harbaugh describes the irony of John W. Davis defending the separate but equal doctrine in Brown v. the Board of Education and explains why Davis took the case as its...

278. Interview with Matthew J. Perry (1:14:03)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Judge Matthew Perry recalls his service in the US Army during World War II in Europe. His travels overseas allowed him to participate in a society without segregation. He discusses his up...

279. Interview with Modjeska Simkins (1:22:07)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola
Summary:
Part one. Civil rights activist Modjeska Simkins discusses her childhood in South Carolina and the influence of her grandmother, who was a slave. She tells vivid stories of her family's ordeals wit...

280. Interview with Oliver W. Hill (2:04:59)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Elwood, William A
Summary:
Part one. Civil rights attorney Oliver Hill recounts his childhood in Roanoke. High schools for African Americans there were at least 100 miles away, so he moved to Washington DC to go to Dunbar Hi...