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Collin Edwards - Interview with Robert and Dorothy Zellner - Part 1
Robert Zellner, the first white staff member of SNCC and wife Dorothy Zellner discuss their motivations behind their involvement with SNCC as well as social and political atmosphere of the South during the Civil Rights Movement. Additionally, the Zellners discuss the power of sit-ins and protest and the necessity of the consciousness generated to inspire and renew the drive towards social change.
Collin Edwards - Interview with Elizabeth Sutherland and Sally Belfrage
Elizabeth Sutherland, editor of “Letter from Mississippi,” and Sally Belfrage. Author of “Freedom Summer.” Both discuss their involvement with SNCC, the atmosphere of the South in relation to the Civil Rights Movement and SNCC, as well as the power of protest.
Collin Edwards - Interview with Elizabeth Sutherland and Sally Belfrage - Part 2
Sutherland and Belfrage continue in their discussion of race in the South, as well as the task of making the events in Mississippi, viewed as contradictions to democracy, public to the United States as a whole.
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Call Number: CD 840Format: DVDProducers: California NewsreelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Faubourg Treme is considered the oldest black neighborhood in America, the origin of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and the birthplace of jazz. The completed film uncovers Treme’s unique and hidden history and situates it within three centuries of African American struggle - from slavery through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights, to the recent threat of Hurricane Katrina.
Interview with Paul Saltzman - Part 1
Paul Saltzman, a college student from Toronto Canada, discusses his involvement with SNCC and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in the South during the Civil Rights Movement. Saltzman discusses his upbringing as well as opinions on the current state of youth during the height of the civil rights movement.
Interview with Paul Saltzman - Part 2
The continuation of an interview with Paul Saltzman, a Civil Rights worker from Toronto, Canada. Saltzman tells accounts of interactions with white Southerners while working with SNCC, as well as a description of his brief time in jail. Additionally, Saltzman highlights literature and sources of information for those interested in learning about and joining the Civil Rights Movement.
Intrerview with Paul Saltzman - Part 3
Paul Saltzman, Civil Rights Worker from Toronto Canada discusses the nonviolent basis of the Civil Rights Movement as well as the Black Power Movement and the implications of President Johnson’s policy’s on the Civil Rights Movement.
Interview with Lorna D. Smith - Part 1
Lorna D. Smith, a Civil Rights worker from the Bay Area, discusses how her involvement with SNCC began, as well as the inspiring role that Upton Sinclair’s work had on her political involvement. Also discussed are events and accounts of her time in the South during the summer of 1964, of which many tales are noted in the book Freedom Summer, by Sally Belfrage.
Interview with Malcolm Zaretsky, Alan Perlman and Dr. Gerald Rosenfield, M.D.
Dr. Gerald Rosenfield, M.D. and Alan Perlman discusses their beginning involvement with SNCC through their respective universities, as well as the Civil Rights events in the Bay Area, and Mississippi.
Interview with Malcolm Zaretsky, Alan Perlman and Dr. Gerald Rosenfield, M.D. - Part 2
Malcolm Zaretsky discusses is role as an ADHOC Committee member, his involvement with CORE at Ohio State and Berkeley and President Kennedy’s policies and their implications for the Civil Rights Movement.
