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Jamila Jones Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Jones, Jamila, American, born 1944
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- The Montgomery Gospel Trio, American
- Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961
- Highlander Folk School, American
- Harambee Singers, American, founded 1966
- Date
- April 27, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:49:27
- Description
- The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.9.1a, 2011.174.9.1b, 2011.174.9.1c, and 2011.174.9.1d.
- Jamila Jones recalls participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a child and forming a singing group at age 11, the Montgomery Gospel Trio, to raise money for the civil rights movement. She recalls helping the Freedom Riders, visiting the Highlander Folk Center, writing a new verse of the song "We Shall Overcome", and founding the Harambee Singers.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0009
- Place collected
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Freedom Riders
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- American South
- Civil rights
- Singers (Musicians)
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.9.1a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress