Junius W. Williams, J.D. Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.37.1a, 2011.174.37.1b, 2011.174.37.1c, 2011.174.37.1d, 2011.174.37.1e, 2011.174.37.1f, 2011.174.37.1g, 2011.174.37.1h, and 2011.174.37.1i.

Junius Williams, J.D. recalls growing up in Richmond, Virginia, attending Amherst College, and joining the student group Students for Racial Equality. He remembers attending the March on Washington, organizing a civil rights conference at Mount Holyoke, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses traveling with other students to the Selma to Montgomery March, being arrested at the march with Worth Long, working as a community organizer with the Newark Community Union Project, and witnessing the riots in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: July 20, 2011
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Junius W. Williams J.D., American, born 1943
• Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
• Subject of: Amherst College, American, founded 1821
• Subject of: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Subject of: Worth Long, American, born 1936
• Subject of: Newark Community Union Project, American, founded 1964
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 2 hr., 54 min., 49 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 290.81 GB
• Place collected: Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Richmond, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Race riots
• Topic: Resistance
• Object number: 2011.174.37.1a-i
• 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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