Romaine--Anne Romaine Interviews, 1966-1967 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 1069, Folder 1)
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- 1960-1968;
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For anyone interested in blow-by-blow descriptions of the political maneuvering at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, this is the folder to look at. In 1966 and 1967 Romaine interviewed many of the significant people in the history of the civil rights movement, particularly those involved in SNCC and the MFDP. These are the transcriptions of those interviews. Allard Lowenstein discusses the 1963 origins of the Freedom Vote, the Freedom Summer project, and the challenge to the Democratic Party of Mississippi at the Democratic National Convention as well as racial tensions among civil rights organizations. Annie Devine talks about her early efforts to combine voter registration activities with her occupation as an insurance agent doing door-to-door solicitation, gender differences, her congressional candidacy, and her experiences as a MFDP delegate at the Democratic National Convention. Ella Baker discusses the early 1960s interest in voter registration as a political organizin
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Romaine, Anne
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
Freedom Vote
Freedom Day
Voter registration
Police
Democratic Party (Miss.)
Mass media
Church buildings
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Republican Party (U.S.)
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Congress of Racial Equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Race
Black power
Demonstrations
Threats
Intimidation
Unemployment
Voting
Assault and battery
Bombings
Arson
Mississippi Freedom Schools
Women
Nonviolence
Civil rights movements
Volunteers
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Clergy
United States. Department of Justice
United States. Supreme Court
Host families
Clothing and dress
Poor
Food drives
Libraries
Labor unions
Whites
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Social conflict
African Americans
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
War on Poverty
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ku Klux Klan
Food relief
Arrest
Lawyers
Lynching
Murder
Mississippi State Penitentiary
Southern Regional Council
Civil rights demonstrations
Freedom rides
California Democratic Council
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Jails
Americans for Preservation of the White Race
White Citizens councils
Parents
Southern Conference Educational Fund
Segregation
Lowenstein, Allard K
DeVine, Annie
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986
Leigh, Sandy
King, Edward
Kastenmeier, Robert
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012
Donaldson, Ivanhoe
Samstein, Mendy
Moses, Robert Parris
Tillow, Walter
Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
Evers, Charles, 1922
Jenkins, Tim
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998
Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Edelman, Marian Wright
Raymond, George
Dennis, David
Green, Edith, 1910-1987
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Farmer, James, 1920-1999
McDew, Charles
Sherrod, Charles, 1937
Jones, Charles
Belafonte, Harry, 1927
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Moore, Amzie
Hardy, John
Nash, Diane, 1938
Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
Pratt, Jack
Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Lynd, Theron C
Beech, Robert, 1935-2008
Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006
Cameron, John, Rev
Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
Young, Andrew, 1932
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965
Wynn, Douglas
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994
Hawks, Elizabeth
Lawrence, David Leo, 1889-1966
Leventhal, Harold, 1915-1979
Mondale, Walter F., 1928
Markman, Sherwin
Doar, John, 1921
Block, Sam
Peacock, Wazir
Brown, Lavarne
Gregory, Dick
Greene, Dewey
Smith, Frank
Lane, Mary
Hayes, Curtis
Bond, Julian, 1940
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Thomas, Arthur
Stone, Robert John, 1919
Lee, Herbert
Bryant, Curtis C., 1917-2007
Horowitz, Rochelle
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996
Canson, Virna M., 1921
Hanson, Bruce
Waskow, Arthur Ocean, 1933
Newman, Stanley
Alperovitz, Gar
Diggs, Charles C
Watkins, Hollis, 1941
Jones, James Oscar, 1943
McLaurin, Charles
Lindsay, Merrill W
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
Robinson, Reginald
Hill, Norman, 1933
Jones, Barbara
Holmes, Eleanor K
Higgs, Bill
Bender, Rita L
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Alden, Tom
Connolly, John
Sanders, Carl Edward, 1925
O'Donnell, Kenneth P., 1924-1977
White, Lee C., 1923
Goodwin, Richard N
Allman, Al
Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976
Turner, Jay - Location
- Mississippi; Georgia; Tennessee; Alabama; New Jersey; Virginia; Ohio; Washington, D.C.;
Greenwood; Jackson; Biloxi; Madison County; McComb; Forrest County; Hattiesburg; Canton; Palmer's Crossing; Liberty; Vicksburg; Sunflower County; Greenville; Clarksdale; Neshoba County; Philadelphia; Ruleville; Batesville; Holmes County; Meridian; Jasper County; Newton County; Cleveland; Albany; Atlanta; Nashville; Selma; Birmingham; Atlantic City; Danville; Oxford; - Format
- Interview transcriptions
- Language
- English
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- Romaine, Anne. Romaine--Anne Romaine Interviews, 1966-1967 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 1069, Folder 1). 1960-1968. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/14003. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Romaine, Anne, (1960-1968) Romaine--Anne Romaine Interviews, 1966-1967 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 1069, Folder 1). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/14003
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- Romaine, Anne. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/14003>.