Nathalie James: Black Power and Civil Rights in Aberdeen, Maryland

ID: 134 ~ Source: The Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: October 26, 2019
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Harford Civil Rights Project

In this 2019 oral history clip, Nathalie James (a young civil rights leader from Aberdeen, Maryland in the 1960s) discusses the impact of the Black Power movement in Aberdeen and H. Rap Brown trial in Bel Air, MD in 1970. [Interviewer: James Karmel, Harford Community College]

This file appears in: H. Rap Brown's Trial and a Car Explodes in Bel Air

By James Karmel
Throughout most of the 1960s, Cambridge, Maryland was a hotbed of civil rights activity and turbulence. Beginning in 1962, students from Morgan State University and other places had gone down to the small city on the state’s eastern shore to sit in…