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Title Interview with Althea and Joseph Boone
Reference AV 180.03
Library Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center
Collection Name Voices Across the Color Line Oral History Collection, VIS 180, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
Collection Overview This oral history program was developed as a means to expand the information regarding Civil Rights activities in Atlanta and in Georgia. The bulk of these oral histories deal with the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. Specific events that are mentioned include the student movement centering around Atlanta University; The Committee On Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR); creation and publication of the Atlanta Enquirer newspaper; the organization of the Atlanta Committee of Cooperative Action (ACCA), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and activities to desegregate city buses and restaurants. Other topics that are discussed on the tapes include desegregation of the public schools and libraries and the organization of Help Our Public Education (H.O.P.E.).
Date 3 Apr 2006
Description Reverend Joseph Boone and his wife Althea worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and participated in activities with the Poor People's Campaign.
Document Type Oral History (Video)
Theme(s) Education and Training; Poverty and Discrimination
Keywords education, schools, Jim Crow laws, church, university, membership, clothes, students, employment, community protest, sit-in, economy, violence, poverty, wages, leadership, desegregation, segregation
Places Atlanta, Georgia
People King, Lonnie; Carmichael, Stokely
Organisations/Associations Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Afro-American Patrolmen’s League
Note Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of the Atlanta History Center.
Name Boone, Joseph; Boone, Althea
Interviewer Merritt, Carole
Date of Recording 3 Apr 2006
Duration 00:58:11
Copyright Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center