John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland, 2013 June 28
English
North Carolina
Recorded in Hyattsville, Maryland, on June 28, 2013.
The interviewees in this group interview were students who staged a walkout in 1951 at the all black, segregated Adkin High School in Kinston, North Carolina, to protest unequal conditions. The interviewees describe their family backgrounds, life in segregated Kinston, and Adkin High School. They remember learning that their school was unequal to the all-white school from which they were barred, and planning and staging a school-wide walkout and march without the assistance of any adults. They also discuss their lives since high school.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Interviews
African American high school students--North Carolina--Kinston
African American high school students
150 $aAfrican American high school students
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Kinston
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements
United States
150 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States
Discrimination in education--North Carolina--Kinston
Discrimination in education
Library of Congress genre/form terms for library and archival materials
Oral histories
Video recordings
1102 $aCivil Rights History Project (U.S.)
Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley), 1926-
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