Stromquist--John Dittmer interview of Shelton Stromquist, in October 1980, Madison, Wisconsin (Shelton Stromquist Papers, 1963-1978; Z: Accessions, Unprocessed SC file)
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Shelton Stromquist was a volunteer in 1964 working in Vicksburg on organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and again in the summer of 1965, when he was in Jackson, Mississippi, doing community organizing. In this transcript of a 1980 oral history conducted with him, he describes the motivations for his civil rights work; relations and tensions among civil rights organizations; relations between black and white civil rights workers; contrasts the jobs of freedom school and community center workers with MFDP workers; and discusses what he sees as Allard Lowenstein's effort to draw white volunteers out of SNCC by getting them to join the Encampment for Citizenship.
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- Africa
- African Americans
- Alinsky, Saul David, 1909 1972
- American Friends Service Committee
- Americans For Democratic Action
- Arson
- Assault And Battery
- Barnes, Andrew
- Black Power
- Bombings
- Brown, Bessie
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- Church Buildings
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clergy
- Clothing And Dress
- Communism
- Community Centers
- Community Organization
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Cowan, Paul
- Cross Burning
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.). State Convention (1964)
- Detwiler, Bruce
- Dittmer, John, 1939
- Encampment For Citizenship
- Ferguson, Johnny
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Freedom Vote
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Harris, Jesse
- Hochschild, Adam
- Ickes, Harold
- Jails
- Johnson, Eddie
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Johnson, Willie
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- Ku Klux Klan
- Leadership
- Libraries
- Lowenstein, Allard K
- Lynd, Theron C
- March Against Fear (James Meredith March)
- Melish, William Howard, 1910
- Meredith, James, 1933
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Mondlani, Eduardo
- Morris, Jesse
- Moses, Robert Parris
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Liberation Movements
- Parents
- Poor
- Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
- Recruiting
- Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908 1979
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882 1945
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Segregation
- Shirley, Aaron
- Social Status
- Soviet Union
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Students For A Democratic Society (U.S.)
- Taylor, Pink
- Tougaloo College
- Training
- Travis, James
- United States
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
- Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal
- Vicksburg Freedom House
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Whites
- Yale Civil Rights Council