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Florida Civil Rights Oral Histories

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This oral history project includes interviews with several of Florida’s civil rights leaders who were active at the height of the civil rights movement in the United States and in Florida during the 1950s and 1960s. The oral history project provides details about local, regional and national civil rights issues. Interviews were conducted by researchers at USF and other Florida universities. The Florida Civil Rights Oral History Project is an open collection, to which more content will be added over time.

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Digital ID: F55-00001

Digital ID:

  • (OCoLC)436221236

Call number:

  • E185.93.F5

Creator: Saunders, Robert W. (Robert William), 1921-

Title: Dr. Robert W. Saunders, Sr. [electronic resource] / interviewed by Canter Brown.

Published: Tampa, Fla. : University of South Florida Tampa Library, 2002.

Physical description: 1 sound file (592 min.) : digital, MPEG4 file +

Florida civil rights oral history project

Summary: Dr. Robert W. Saunders, Sr., former field secretary of the Florida National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, describes the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. This interview focuses on the NAACP in Florida, discussing desegregation, the Tallahassee bus boycott, Florida politics, and other subjects. Numerous civil rights leaders are discussed in detail, including Harry T. Moore, Gloster B. Current, Roy Wilkins, Medgar Evars, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Virgil Hawkins, and Mary McLeod Bethune.

Date/Time of Event:

  • Interview conducted January 14, 2002 through January 18, 2002.

Notes: Interview also available on videocassette.

Mode of access: World Wide Web. Streaming audio.

Other Contributers: Brown, Canter.

Other Contributers: University of South Florida Libraries. Florida Studies Center. Oral History Program.

Other Contributers: University of South Florida. Tampa Library.

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Collection: Florida Civil Rights OHP

Subjects:

  • Saunders, Robert W. (Robert William), 1921-
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
  • African Americans Civil rights Florida.
  • Civil rights workers Interviews.
  • Civil rights workers Florida.
  • Oral history. local
  • Online audio. local

 

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