KZSU Project South interviews, 1965
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Transcribed interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by several Stanford students affiliated with the campus radio station KZSU during the summer of 1965. The project was sponsored by the Institute of American History at Stanford. Includes information relating to black history; interviews of members of the Congress of Racial Equality, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; recordings of formal and informal remarks of persons working with smaller, independent civil rights projects, of local blacks associated with the civil rights movement, and other people, including Ku Klux Klansmen; "action tapes" of civil rights workers canvassing voters, conducting freedom schools, or participating in demonstrations ; speeches by and/or interviews with Ralph David Abernathy, Charles Evers, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hosea Williams; and a Ku Klux Klan meeting and speech made by Robert Sheldon, its Imperial Wizard.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Extent | 7 linear feet (14 boxes) |
Place | California |
Date created | 1965 |
Issuance | monographic |
Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
Associated with | KZSU (Radio station : Stanford) | |
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Associated with | Stanford University, Institute of American History. |
Subjects
Subject | Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 |
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Subject | Evers, Charles, 1922- |
Subject | Farmer, James |
Subject | King, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968 |
Subject | McDaniel, Edward L, 1934-2011 |
Subject | Shelton, Robert M, 1929-2003 |
Subject | Williams, Hosea |
Subject | Congress of Racial Equality. |
Subject | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) |
Subject | KZSU (Radio station : Stanford) |
Subject | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. |
Subject | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
Subject | Southern Christian Leadership Conference. |
Subject | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) |
Subject | Civil rights > United States |
Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
Additional physical form | Also available on microfiche for consultation or purchase from Stanford University Libraries. |
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Reproduction | Microfiche. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1975. 70 microfiche. |
Ownership | Gift of Richard Gillam and KZSU, 1969. |
Note | Related materials: Tape recordings. Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound. |
Location |
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LCCN | ms 70001304 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/vm093fg5170 |
Location | Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford Univ. Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305-6064. |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- Digital recordings from this collection may be accessed freely. These files may not be reproduced or used for any purpose without permission. For permission requests, please contact Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives (specialcollections@stanford.edu).