Atlanta Student Movement ProjectOral history interviews with members of the Atlanta Student Movement that took place in the 1960s.https://soar.kennesaw.edu/handle/11360/23842024-03-29T14:08:21Z2024-03-29T14:08:21ZDr. Gwendolyn Middlebrooks InterviewBohannon, Jeanne Lawhttps://soar.kennesaw.edu/handle/11360/24672020-08-10T22:13:06Z2019-03-06T20:31:59ZDr. Gwendolyn Middlebrooks Interview
Bohannon, Jeanne Law
Oral history interview with Dr. Gwendolyn Middlebrooks, a leader in the Atlanta Student Movement in the 1960s.
Dr. Gwendolyn Middlebrooks is a Professor Emerita at Spelman College. She first protested against racial desegregation as a teen. While a student at Spelman, she was a leader in the Atlanta Student Movement, going to jail for protesting segregated public facilities and lunch-counters in 1960-61 as well as participating in the Movement’s jail no bail campaign.
2019-03-06T20:31:59ZCharles Black InterviewBohannon, Jeanne Lawhttps://soar.kennesaw.edu/handle/11360/24662020-08-10T22:11:48Z2019-03-06T20:31:57ZCharles Black Interview
Bohannon, Jeanne Law
Oral history interview with Charles Black, a leader in the Atlanta Student Movement in the 1960s.
Charles Black was born in Miami, Florida and came to Morehouse College on an early admission scholarship. During the March 1960 demonstrations at the Georgia State Capitol and the Terminal Buss Station, he was arrested, along with 76 other students, and sent to the Atlanta Prison Farm for hard labor. He became one of the first student editors of The Atlanta Inquirer and later served as the co-chair of the Atlanta Student Movement.
2019-03-06T20:31:57ZDr. Lonnie King Class Lecture 2016Bohannon, Jeanne Lawhttps://soar.kennesaw.edu/handle/11360/24132020-08-10T22:10:52Z2018-08-04T01:35:10ZDr. Lonnie King Class Lecture 2016
Bohannon, Jeanne Law
Guest lecture delivered to students and faculty in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kennesaw State University in 2016.
Lonnie King, Jr. was born in Arlington, Georgia. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and a graduate of Morehouse, where he led the Atlanta Student Movement's political, economic, and legal boycotts against segregated Lonnie counters in Atlanta, GA during 1960-61.
2018-08-04T01:35:10ZMarilyn Pryce Hoytt InterviewBohannon, Jeanne Lawhttps://soar.kennesaw.edu/handle/11360/24122019-08-30T03:21:49Z2018-08-04T01:34:58ZMarilyn Pryce Hoytt Interview
Bohannon, Jeanne Law
Oral history interview with Marilyn Pryce Hoytt, a Foot Soldier in the Atlanta Student Movement.
Marilyn Pryce Hoytt describes herself as a foot soldier in the Atlanta Student Movement. Born in California, Hoytt moved with her parents to Tuskegee, Alabama when she was in second grade. Her father, E.L. Pryce, was a landscape architect at Tuskegee University and an artist. Her mother, like many generations before her, was a storyteller and the keeper of the family's history. Marilyn attended Spelman College, graduating in 1963. During the Atlanta Student Movement, she participated in sit-ins and boycotts to protest unequal segregation practices at lunch counters and restaurants throughout Atlanta. She sat-in at the Magnolia Tea Room at Rich's Department Store on October 19th, 1960, an act for which she as arrested, along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lonnie King, Blondean Orbert, and more than 70 others. She is portrayed walking between Dr. King and Lonnie King in an iconic photograph from that historic day. Professor Hoytt retired from Tuskegee University in 2018, after serving as a French professor for decades. The author of three children's books, she is currently writing a memoir and working to bring her father's afro-centric art to a larger public.
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