Reminiscences of Clarence Maurice Mitchell, 1981.

Biographical Note

Civil rights activist, lawyer

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Baltimore, MD; education: Lincoln University, University of Maryland Law School; reporter for the BALTIMORE AFRO-AMERICAN; director of Washington Bureau of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; impressions of A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Adam Clayton Powell; discussion of racism: lynching, segregation, discrimination within the job market, within unions

Subjects

• African American press.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Employment.
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Mitchell, Clarence M. (Clarence Maurice), Jr., 1911-1984--Interviews.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Race relations.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986