Who speaks for the Negro? : an archival collection of interviews conducted for Robert Penn Warren's seminal book.

A Web page providing digitized recordings of interviews conducted by Robert Penn Warren in his research for the 1965 book Who Speaks for the Negro?, with abstracts and biographies of the participants. The interviews are with leaders in the civil rights movement or other prominent persons associated...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Jean and Alexander Heard Library
Vanderbilt University
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
University of Kentucky
Yale University
Other Authors: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Language:English
Published: [Nashville, Tenn.] : Jean and Alexander Heard Library, [2008]-
Subjects:
Warren, Robert Penn, > 1905-1989 > Interviews.
Civil rights workers > United States > Interviews.
African Americans > Interviews.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Sources.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Sources.
Genre:
Interviews.
Sources.
Online Access:
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Format: Audio
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Summary:
A Web page providing digitized recordings of interviews conducted by Robert Penn Warren in his research for the 1965 book Who Speaks for the Negro?, with abstracts and biographies of the participants. The interviews are with leaders in the civil rights movement or other prominent persons associated with it. Material planned for inclusion in the site but not yet present as of Apr. 10, 2008 includes digital copies of the correspondence, transcripts and other printed materials related to the book. Also includes the announcement for and a list of participants in the conference We Speak for Ourselves, held in Nashville Apr. 3-4, 2008, and sponsored jointly by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University. The interviews are browseable by participant name or subject, and the abstracts and subject descriptors are keyword searchable. Some of the interview recordings are actually mounted on a University of Kentucky website but are linked from this site, and some of these include transcripts in PDF format.
Note:Streaming audio.
Title from home page (viewed Apr. 10, 2008).
"This collection is a partial representation of recordings of the interviews conducted by Robert Penn Warren in preparation for his book Who Speaks for the Negro? Recordings of some interviews may no longer exist. In addition, some interviews may be here only in part"--"About the Archive" page.
Includes interviews with: Carroll Baker, James Baldwin, Ezell A. Blair, Jr., Wylie Branton, Bridgeport (Conn.) men, Will D. Campbell, Stokely Carmichael, Felton Clark, Kenneth Bancroft Clark, Septima Poinsette Clark, Robert Collins, Dan W. Dodson, Nils Douglas, Lolis Elie, Ralph Ellison, Charles Evers, James Farmer, Jr., Milton A. Galamison, Neil E. Goldschmidt, Richard Gunn, Clarie Collins Harvey, William Hastie, Aaron Henry, Jackson State College students, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery King, James M. Lawson, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Gloria Richardson, Carl T. Rowan, Bayard Rustin, Kelly Miller Smith, William Stringfellow, Lucy Thornton, Tougaloo College students, Ruth Turner, Wyatt Tee Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Jean Wheeler, Avon N. Williams, Jr., Stephen Wright, Malcolm X, Andrew Young.
"Original materials (recordings) through the generous support of the University of Kentucky and Yale University. Some abstracts courtesy of the University of Kentucky. Support from Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University."
Electronic resource.
Call Number:E185.98.A1 W46 2008 Online
System Details:System requirements: RealPlayer to listen to sound files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.