Earlier this year, Junius Williams sat down with Joseph Mosnier of the Library of Congress, as a part of the Civil Rights Oral Histories Project. This great honor, gave Junius Williams the opportunity to reflect on the movement, and discuss his book, "Unfinished Agenda".
Junius Williams recalls growing up in Richmond, Virginia, attending Amherst College, and joining the student group Students for Racial Equality. He remembers attending the March on Washington, organizing a civil rights conference at Mount Holyoke, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses traveling with other students to the Selma to Montgomery March, being arrested at the march with Worth Long, working as a community organizer with the Newark Community Union Project, and witnessing the riots in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967.
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
Junius Williams featured on the Library of Congress: Oral Histories, the Civil Rights Movement
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