[Atlanta, GA; September 8, 1963]
Alan Ribback Interviews Bruce Gordon
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content: Alan Ribback Interviews Bruce Gordon
Box: Bruce Gordon, Dr. Baldwin Burrows
Content: Bruce Gordon (SNCC field secretary for Mobile, Alabama) interview, with Dr. Burrows contributing in the second half.
-Arrest of  Hosea Williams
-Peace warrants
-Police brutality
-Arrests and rioting
-Chatham County jail, Savannah, Georgia
Bruce Gordon jailed for fifty-five days. taught reading and writing and history in jail
-SNCC strategy
-Demonstrations in Savannah, Georgia
-Silent marches as an effective technique
-Demonstration to protest the arrest of Hosea Williams
-Registration drive in Savannah, Georgia, boycott, mass meetings resulted in an agreed test period for desegregation of public facilities, bargaining with business owners
-Unionizing black laborers, teamsters, AFL-CIO, Mr. Meany and Mr. Hoffa, organizing car wash workers, meat packers, working conditions
-Link voter registration with jobs
-History of Gordon's involvement in SNCC
-Links the importance of unionizing and registration
-Arkansas and segregation, terror and ideology, prejudice is more insidious than segregation
-Vocational schools for Negroes
-Gordon's first time in the South, military service, joining the movement and formation of political beliefs
-Psychology of segregation
-Crime and illiteracy
-Conversation about negativity versus positivity
-African nationalism
-Negro culture
-Langston Hughes' poetry
-Jazz music as modern folk music
-Freedom and society
Ribback lets the tape run and simply records the conversation.
(In a car and then a house with television in the background)