John Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Ph.D., Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.96.1a, 2011.174.96.1b, 2011.174.96.1c, 2011.174.96.1d, 2011.174.96.1e, 2011.174.96.1f, 2011.174.96.1g, and 2011.174.96.1h.

The interviewees in this group interview were students who staged a walkout in 1951 at the all black, segregated Adkin High School in Kinston, North Carolina. They were protesting the unequal conditions between the black and white high schools in Kinston. The interviewees describe their family backgrounds, life in segregated Kinston, and Adkin High School. They remember learning that their school was unequal to the all-white school from which they were barred, and planning and staging a school-wide walkout and march without the assistance of any adults. They also discuss their lives since high school.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: June 28, 2013
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: John F. Dudley, American
• Interview of: Eleanor Stewart, American
• Interview of: Charles Jarmon Ph.D., American
• Interview of: Frances L. Suggs, American, born 1935
• Interview of: Harold Suggs, American, born 1935
• Interview of: Samuel Dove, American, born 1942
• Interviewed by: Dr. Emilye Crosby Ph. D., American
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 2 hr., 32 min., 59 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 251.89 GB
• Place collected: Hyattsville, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Families
• Topic: Segregation
• Topic: Social reform
• Object number: 2011.174.96.1a-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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