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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- 1964; 1965
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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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Stromquist, Shelton 1943
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- Church buildings
Bombings
Arson
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
Whites
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Voter registration
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Training
Volunteers
Parents
Recruiting
Civil rights workers
Mississippi Freedom Schools
Community centers
Ku Klux Klan
Assault and battery
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
African Americans
Vicksburg Freedom House
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Vicksburg citizens' appeal
Yale Civil Rights Council
Encampment for Citizenship
Americans for Democratic Action
Communism
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Democratic Party (Miss.). State Convention (1964)
Jails
Social status
Community organization
Segregation
Congress of Racial Equality
Clothing and dress
Poor
Black power
National liberation movements
Africa
Cross burning
Freedom Vote
Clergy
Libraries
Leadership
Soviet Union
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
March Against Fear (James Meredith march)
American Friends Service Committee
Tougaloo College
Moses, Robert Parris
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Travis, James
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Ickes, Harold
Johnson, Willie
Ferguson, Johnny
Cowan, Paul
Taylor, Pink
Shirley, Aaron
Barnes, Andrew
Hochschild, Adam
Harris, Jesse
Lowenstein, Allard K
Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
Detwiler, Bruce
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Alinsky, Saul David, 1909-1972
Meredith, James, 1933
Carmichael, Stokely
Mondlani, Eduardo
Dittmer, John, 1939
Lynd, Theron C
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Melish, William Howard, 1910
Johnson, Eddie
Brown, Bessie
Morris, Jesse
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012 - Location
- Mississippi; New Jersey; Alabama; Illinois; Louisiana; Ohio
Vicksburg; Jackson; Greenwood; Liberty; McComb; Natchez; Warren County; Bovina; Port Gibson; Holmes County; Edwards; Canton; Philadelphia; Atlantic City; Birmingham; Selma; Park Forest; Baton Rouge; Oxford - Type
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- Interview transcriptions
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- English
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- Stromquist, Shelton 1943. Stromquist--John Dittmer interview of Shelton Stromquist, in October 1980, Madison, Wisconsin (Shelton Stromquist Papers, 1963-1978; Z: Accessions, Unprocessed SC file). 1964; 1965. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/2385. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- Stromquist, Shelton 1943, (1964; 1965) Stromquist--John Dittmer interview of Shelton Stromquist, in October 1980, Madison, Wisconsin (Shelton Stromquist Papers, 1963-1978; Z: Accessions, Unprocessed SC file). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/2385
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- Stromquist, Shelton 1943. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/2385>.