"It is a record of my attempt to find out what I could find out."

February 16, 2022 5:38 AM

The original reel-to-reel audio and transcripts of civil rights activists interviewed by Robert Penn Warren for Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965) were made available by Vanderbilt University as part of a wider archive of letters, images, and other supporting materials. Hear Robert Moses (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Bayard Rustin (Freedom Rides, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, March on Washington), Septima Poinsette Clark (Highlander Folk School, Citizenship Schools), Malcolm X, Whitney Young (Urban League), students from Jackson State and Tougaloo Colleges, James Baldwin and more on justice, activism, movement-building, revolution, and freedom.

Much gratitude to Kattullus for originally posting the archive in 2013.

posted by youarenothere (3 comments total)

I listened to a bunch of these when it was first posted, and they are really worth the time.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:21 AM on February 16, 2022 [1 favorite]

I guess it's only me, but when I saw the name "Robert Moses" and the the word "Committee" I immediately associated to the other Robert Moses.

Now going off to listen to these, thanks for posting!
posted by kmt at 7:07 AM on February 16, 2022

I guess it's only me, but when I saw the name "Robert Moses" and ...

No, no just you. 😉
posted by kingless at 9:55 AM on February 17, 2022