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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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Keywords

  1. Africa
  2. African Americans
  3. Alinsky, Saul David, 1909 1972
  4. American Friends Service Committee
  5. Americans For Democratic Action
  6. Arson
  7. Assault And Battery
  8. Barnes, Andrew
  9. Black Power
  10. Bombings
  11. Brown, Bessie
  12. Carmichael, Stokely
  13. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  14. Church Buildings
  15. Civil Rights
  16. Civil Rights Workers
  17. Clergy
  18. Clothing And Dress
  19. Communism
  20. Community Centers
  21. Community Organization
  22. Congress Of Racial Equality
  23. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  24. Cowan, Paul
  25. Cross Burning
  26. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  27. Democratic Party (Miss.). State Convention (1964)
  28. Detwiler, Bruce
  29. Dittmer, John, 1939
  30. Encampment For Citizenship
  31. Ferguson, Johnny
  32. Forman, James, 1928 2005
  33. Freedom Vote
  34. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  35. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  36. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  37. Harris, Jesse
  38. Hochschild, Adam
  39. Ickes, Harold
  40. Jails
  41. Johnson, Eddie
  42. Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
  43. Johnson, Willie
  44. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
  45. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  46. Ku Klux Klan
  47. Leadership
  48. Libraries
  49. Lowenstein, Allard K
  50. Lynd, Theron C
  51. March Against Fear (James Meredith March)
  52. Melish, William Howard, 1910
  53. Meredith, James, 1933
  54. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  55. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  56. Mondlani, Eduardo
  57. Morris, Jesse
  58. Moses, Robert Parris
  59. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  60. National Liberation Movements
  61. Parents
  62. Poor
  63. Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
  64. Recruiting
  65. Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908 1979
  66. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882 1945
  67. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  68. Segregation
  69. Shirley, Aaron
  70. Social Status
  71. Soviet Union
  72. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  73. Students For A Democratic Society (U.S.)
  74. Taylor, Pink
  75. Tougaloo College
  76. Training
  77. Travis, James
  78. United States
  79. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  80. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  81. United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
  82. Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal
  83. Vicksburg Freedom House
  84. Volunteers
  85. Voter Registration
  86. Whites
  87. Yale Civil Rights Council

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