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Interview with Reverend Walter Moon
| dc.contributor | Scott, Thomas Allan (1943- ) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Drysdale, Jessica Renee | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lutz, Jay | |
| dc.contributor.other | Moon, Walter | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Marietta (Ga.), Georgia | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Cobb County (Ga.) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-29T21:14:06Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2009-10-08 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-08-29T21:14:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-08-29T21:14:06Z | |
| dc.identifier | ksu-45-05-001-07004 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Interview with Reverend Walter Moon transcript, 2009-10-08, Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights series, 2009-2010, Kennesaw State University Oral History Project, 1973- , KSU/45/05/001, Kennesaw State University Archives. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11360/283 | |
| dc.description | Reverend Walter Moon was born in Marietta and graduated from Lemon Street High School. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1960 to 1964, Moon joined the U.S. Postal Service as a letter carrier in Marietta. He worked in a variety of positions and locations until he retired as the Manager of Customer Services and Sales for Alabama in 1999. Moon returned to Cobb County, Georgia, in 2002. He accepted a call to the ministry in 1983 and founded the Words of Faith A.M.E. Church in Mableton, Georgia, in 2003. Rev. Moon has been active in the Civil Rights Movement, working with Hugh Grogan in the gerrymandering case that lead to Grogan's election to the Marietta City Council in 1978. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Kennesaw State University Archives | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | http://archivesspace.kennesaw.edu/repositories/4/resources/195 | |
| dc.rights | The digital reproductions on this site are provided for research consultation and scholarly purposes only. To request permission to publish, reproduce, publicly display, broadcast, or distribute this material in any format outside of fair use please contact the Kennesaw State University Archives. | |
| dc.subject | Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Cobb County. | |
| dc.subject | Marietta (Ga.) -- Race relations. | |
| dc.subject | Moon, Walter | |
| dc.subject | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cobb County Branch -- History. | |
| dc.subject | Oral histories. | |
| dc.subject | Transcripts. | |
| dc.title | Interview with Reverend Walter Moon | |
| dc.type | Text |
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African American Experience
Oral histories pertaining to the African American experience -
Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Oral History Series
The Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Series consists of forty-one oral history interviews done with a variety of people across Cobb County. The purpose of the project is to collect personal experiences of people with the Cobb County Branch and its predecessor, the Marietta Branch, of the NAACP, as well as the Civil Rights movement in Cobb County, Georgia.