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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Willie McCray
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Willie McCray.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 6 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Civil rights activist Willie McCray was born on March 4, 1942 in Columbus, Georgia. McCray attended Carver Vocational High School. In 1960, he moved to Atlanta and was hired as a staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Working with Ruby Doris Smith, McCray bailed organizers out of jail and retrieved and fixed cars of civil rights organizers at SNCC's motor pool. McCray followed the movement through Freedom Summer in 1964 and 1965's March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. As SNCC moved toward "Black Power", McCray ended up in jail for a year in 1966. He then resettled in Yellow Springs, Ohio and met activist Hellen O'Neal at SNCC's New York office. They were soon married. McCray was director of security for the Ohio Historical Society's National African American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio. McCray passed away on October 11, 2006 at age 64.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Willie McCray
Willie McCray
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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