Nathalie James: Memories of Youthful Activism

ID: 148 ~ Source: 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 oral history clip, Nathalie James remembers her teen years in the early 1960s when she was involved in the Harford County NAACP chapter's youth division. Responding to the wave of energized civil rights activity locally and nationally, the Harford NAACP was very active at this time in support of various civil rights causes. She also recalls attempted intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan and her group's response.
[Interviewer: James Karmel, Harford Community College]

This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride

By James Karmel
Usually when Americans remember the Freedom Rides, they think of buses that traversed the deep South in the early 1960s to protest racism at bus depots and lunch counters and the like. The Freedom Riders' demonstrated that, in many southern states,…