[Selma, AL; September/October, 1963]
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McNamara, Norris
label: Collection Creator
content: Moon, Moses
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content: Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection
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content: Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection / Series 1: Original Tapes
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content: Box 3, Item AC0556-OT_SE_4.1
label: Container
content: Box 6 (Reference)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Audio
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content: Amelia Boynton Robinson, fifty-three years old:
-She and her husband were active in helping with Negro rights many years before the current movement
-History of their civil rights activities
-Wrote several poems and plays – talks about current project
-The freedom songs have more hope than the spirituals
-The older spirituals depicted the burden of being Negro
-Living to see freedom, rather than dying to achieve it
-Singing the basic tune of "Freedom is a Coming"
-Youth participation is crucial to the movement's sense of courage
-Young people have less to lose than the older generation
-Talks about past club meetings
-Past traces/accusations of communism
-Describes discriminatory credit system