Civil rights, protests, and social reformers

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Conversations with Metz Rollins and Will Campbell, Tape 1, Part 1.

Description:

Metz Rollins speaking about the civil rights movement at Ghost Ranch (Abiquiú, New Mexico) on July 19, 1983. Rollins speaks about the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, his time in Tallahassee, Florida (including his arrest for aiding Florida A&M University students in the Tallahassee city bus boycott), his time in Nashville, Tennessee (including his participation in the Nashville sit-ins), and the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Part 1 of 12.

Creator:

Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (speaker)

Subject names:

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926-

Topics:

Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--United States., African American clergy., African American Presbyterians., Civil rights demonstrations.

URL:

https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344307

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Black manifesto, May 15, 1969.

Description:

Presentation of UPCUSA General Council to the General Assembly by Eliezer Risco, Obed Lopez, Gayraud Wilmore, James Forman, Metz Rollins, and Edler G. Hawkins to the 181st General Assembly, May 15, 1969, on Forman's Black Manifesto and racial reconciliation.

Creator:

Risco, Eliezer. (speaker), Lopez, Obed. (speaker), Wilmore, Gayraud S. (speaker), Forman, James, 1928-2005. (speaker), Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (speaker), Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977. (speaker)

Subject names:

Forman, James, 1928-2005., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (181st : 1969 : San Antonio, Texas)

Topics:

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American Presbyterians., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Geographic subjects:

San Antonio (Tex.)

URL:

https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116533