Amos C. Brown Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Amos C. Brown Oral History Interview: Date: March 2, 2013. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Rev. Dr. Amos C. Brown, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.60.1a, 2011.174.60.1b, 2011.174.60.1c, 2011.174.60.1d, 2011.174.60.1e, 2011.174.60.1f, 2011.174.60.1g, and 2011.174.60.1h.
Reverend Dr. Amos Brown discusses his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi and meeting Medgar Evers, who quickly became his mentor. Brown was a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a teenager, leading the Jackson chapter and then the whole state Youth Council and traveling with Mr. Evers across the country to attend a national conference. He was asked to leave his high school for making comments to the Cleveland Plain Dealer about unequal schools for blacks, and remembers his participation in a 1961 Freedom Ride, his travel to Africa as part of Operation Crossroads Africa, and his work at Third Baptist Church on various social causes.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: March 2, 2013
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Rev. Dr. Amos C. Brown, American
- Interviewed by: David P. Cline Ph. D., American, born 1969
- Subject of: Medgar Evers, American, 1925 - 1963
- Subject of: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Subject of: NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936
- Subject of: The Plain Dealer, American, founded 1842
- Subject of: Operation Crossroads Africa, American, founded 1958
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 58 min., 48 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 193.04 GB
- Place collected: San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Africa
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Africa
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Baptist
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Education
- Object number: 2011.174.60.1a-h
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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