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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-TM-01
This interview focuses on civil rights issues that arose during the Kennedy administration, including voting rights and equal employment, and civil rights legislation, among other topics.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-HGB-01
Belafonte discusses the development of his political awareness, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and others in the civil rights movement, and collaboration and conflict with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BM-05
Marshall discusses civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, legislation that would become the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, and George C. Wallace’s attempt to stop the desegregation of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BM-04
Marshall discusses the violence surrounding James Howard Meredith’s enrollment at the University of Mississippi, the contempt of court case against Mississippi governor Ross R. Barnett, and John F. Kennedy’s judicial appointments, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BM-03
Marshall discusses the Freedom Rides, school desegregation, the executive order to end discrimination in federally funded housing, attempts at civil rights legislation, and the 1962 Albany, Georgia crisis, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BM-02
Marshall discusses violence in the Freedom Rides during 1961, negotiations with the governors and public safety officials of Alabama and Mississippi to ensure safety of the riders; arrests of the riders, and the eventual desegregation of bus facilities.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BM-01
Marshall discusses violence in Alabama in May 1961 during the Freedom Rides, the situation in Birmingham, negotiations with Governor Patterson, the decision to send federal marshals to Montgomery, and federal protection for Martin Luther King, Jr.