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Penny Patch Oral History Transcript

Edited transcript of oral history recorded 2017-12-19 of Penny Patch, interviewed by Stephanie Ramsay, Roberto Vargas, and Eleanor Naiman.

Tags Cambridge MD, Charles Sherrod, Charlotte Phillips, Congress for Racial Equality, Council of Federated Organizations, Dorothy Earley, Eastern Shore Civil Rights Project, Georgia, Judy Walenta, Mimi Feingold, Mississippi Summer Project, NAACP Chester, NAACP Youth Council, oral history transcript, Penny Patch, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, Swarthmore Political Action Club

Penny Patch

Oral History created as part of the Swarthmore Libraries project Swarthmore Student Activism: Civil Rights, 1960 – 1966. Penny Patch, being interviewed by Stefanie Ramsay, Roberto Vargas, and Eleanor Naiman. 1-part audio with transcription, length 74:07.

Tags Civil rights demonstration, Civil rights movement, oral history interview, Penny Patch, Swarthmore College

1963_11_16 Patch Dellinger_s Letter from Broadmeadown Jail.pdf

Patch Dellinger Letter from Jail

a letter Evan Patch Dellinger wrote from jail as printed in a newspaper

Tags 1963, civil disobedience, civil rights activism, Evan Patchen Dellinger

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NSA Voter Registration Drive

Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 16, 1962 which reports on the voter registration project in Raleigh, North Carolina sponsored by the National Student Association (NSA). The politics of desegregation and political participation among Black communities for the purposes of enacting change, along with the white population's responses, is discussed.

Tags 1962, Desegregation, Education, Kitty Calhoun, Ku Klux Klan, Mimi Feingold, National Student Association, Raleigh Citizens Association, Raleigh NC, Segregation, Sitin demonstrations, Summer projects, Voter registration, Voting rights

Northern Agitators in the South

a narrative about Louise Bennett's experience with civil rights activism during the summer of 1963

Tags 1963, Civil rights movement, Louise Bennett, Voter registration

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NAACP Exec Assails Chester Council

Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 26, 1962 reporting on the executive director of the Chester National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Stanley Branche, and his comments to Chester city council and students participating in the Chester Tutorial Project. He asks city council to address unfair employment practices and discriminatory housing against Black residents, and their responses are disclosed. To those involved in the Chester Tutorial Project, Branche predicts that the Chester school administration will eventually support the project.

Tags 1962, Asbury AME Church, Chester City Council, Chester NAACP, Chester PA, Chester Tutorial project, Cheyney State College, NAACP Youth Council, Public opinion, Racial discrimination, Stanley Branche, Swarthmore College, Tutoring

Muslim Tenants Are Pervasive; Want Social Change

Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 16, 1962 following up on a previous article which "reviewed the basic tenets of the Black Muslims." The Black Muslim movement is framed as a favored replacement of the Christian church, especially in relation to the civil rights movement. In this piece, the major categories of Black Muslim ideology analyzed are religious, economic, political, then concluded by a section on the future.

Tags 1962, Black community, Black Muslims, Civil rights movement, Direct action, Economic justice, Legal discrimination, Nation of Islam, Racial discrimination, Religion, Segregation, Social inequality, Voter registration

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