Voices of Freedom
Visit VCU Libraries' Voices of Freedom where you can access video oral histories of twelve leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia. Transcripts of the complete interviews are also available from this site. Throughout Black History Month, we will spotlight different individuals who participated in the Voices of Freedom project.
Today, watch (or read) the oral history of Rev. Curtis W. Harris pastor, civil rights leader, former president of the Virginia Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and former mayor of Hopewell. Rev. Harris discusses his work with the SCLC and Martin Luther King, Jr., civil disobedience and confronting the Klu Klux Klan in Hopewell.
-- Ray Bonis, Special Collections and Archives.