[Monroe County, MS; August 1, 1964]
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_MO_1.3
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
label: Type
content: Audio
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview with unidentified man, organizer in Monroe, Mississippi originally from NY:
-Self-defense trends in police confrontation, Birmingham as example
-Campaign for Negro politicians
-North Carolina and economic needs
-Tactics: rural versus industrial areas
-Importance of unionizing, strong organization
-Socialist leanings
-Pageland, South Carolina
-Rural population issues
-"Freedom Now" is an impractical demand
Conversations moves into issues of socialism, communism, world politics
Cut to unidentified group of singers, informal, joking:
"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around"