Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, conference tape number 8, OVU 408.5.8
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content: 1 Videocassettes (U-matic)
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content: 1980-01-30
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content: Box 202, Video 1, Item AC0408-OV0008
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content: Wednesday, January 30, 1980, Songleaders' Workshop. Session III:
"Sit-ins, Marches, Jails, Mass Meetings" (no sound for the first three minutes).

Cordell Reagon opens session with "You'd Better Leave Segregation
Alone." Discusses sharing to create a space for expression and the acknowledgement and documentation of those in the Movement. Introduces Franklin McCain - one of the first people to sit-in at the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's.

Franklin McCain briefly speaks and then excuses himself to give a
television interview with local station Channel 7 News.

Jibreel Khazan (Ezell Alexander Blair Jr.) gives background on how the Movement came about including the role of Black Colleges. Discusses the planning of the Woolworth's sit-in on February 1, 1960. Speaks of Ralph Johns, Joseph McNeil, and A&T College in Greensboro, South Carolina. Sings "The Love of God."

Sam Block, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Mississippi.
Sings "Guide My Feet While I Run This Race."

Willie and James Peacock, Hollis Watkins, Evester Simpson Morris, Guy Carawan, and Reverend James Bevel called to stage to perform a song led by Sam Block.
 
Group sings "Freedom Train A Coming."