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Oral history interview with Bernard LaFayette, Jr., James Bevel, and Ernest Rip Patton, 2003 January 17

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Excerpts from an interview with civil rights activists Bernard LaFayette, Jr., James Bevel and Ernest Rip Patton conducted on 17 January 2003 by Kathryn G. Bennett. In the excerpts Rev. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. discusses his decision as a young man to turn down a journalism scholarship to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Rev. James Bevel discusses the influence Rev. Kelly Miller Smith and other civil rights leaders had on his career; and LaFayette discusses James Bevel and the origins of the Selma March. The complete interview as well as an index is available in the Special Collections Division.
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Sound Oral Histories
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Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Clergy
  3. African American Newspaper Editors
  4. African American Social Reformers
  5. African Americans
  6. Awards
  7. Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936
  8. Christian Leadership
  9. Civil Rights
  10. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  11. Civil Rights Movements
  12. Colleges And Universities
  13. Education
  14. First Baptist Church Capitol Hill (Nashville, Tenn.)
  15. Fisk University
  16. Florida
  17. Florida Agricultural And Mechanical University
  18. Funds And Scholarships
  19. History
  20. Interviews
  21. Journalism
  22. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  23. La Fayette, Bernard
  24. Meharry Medical College
  25. Nashville
  26. Nashville (Tenn.)
  27. Nonviolence
  28. Patton, Ernest Rip
  29. Race Relations
  30. Religion
  31. Religious Aspects
  32. Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926
  33. Scholarships, Fellowships, Etc
  34. Selma Montgomery Rights March, 1965
  35. Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922
  36. Smith, Kelly Miller, 1920
  37. Social Conditions
  38. Social Movements
  39. Sources
  40. Southern States
  41. Student Newspapers And Periodicals
  42. Tallahassee
  43. Tallahassee (Tenn.)
  44. Tennessee
  45. Thurman, Howard, 1900 1981
  46. United States
  47. Universities
  48. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998

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