Interview with Sen. Henry L. Marsh, III (Transcript)
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Carrington, Ronald E. (interviewer)
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Henry L. Marsh, III, civil rights attorney, state senator, first African American Mayor of Richmond, he discusses what it meant to confront Richmond's white power structure and become mayor. Other topics include: growing up in Smithfield, Virginia and in Richmond; his first meeting and then working with Oliver W. Hill, Sr.; his work with the NAACP Youth Council; Virginia Union University; the role of Massive Resistance in creating Civil Rights leaders in Virginia; Rev. Curtis Harris; and various race discrimination cases in employment (including Philip Morris) and education.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- History
- Interviews
- Marsh, Henry L
- Race Relations
- Virginia
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