National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 Search this
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 Search this
The Plain Dealer, American, founded 1842 Search this
Operation Crossroads Africa, American, founded 1958 Search this
Third Baptist Church, American, founded 1852 Search this
Medium:
digital
Dimensions:
Duration: 1 hr., 58 min., 48 sec.
Total: 193.04 GB
Type:
video recordings
oral histories
digital media - born digital
Place collected:
San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted:
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
Africa
Date:
March 2, 2013
Description:
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.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
