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Phillip McKenna Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Phillip McKenna. McKenna became an early anti-Vietnam War activist in 1964. While attending the University of California, Santa Barbara, he spent the summer of 1965 participating in the Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Interview conducted over Zoom on March 22, 2022 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long.
Phillip McKenna Oral History
03/22/2022
Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)
Duration: 57 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2022.001.0015
The Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was an ambitious undertaking in the summer of 1965 in preparation of passage of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Hundreds of predominantly white college students were recruited to travel to six southern states to coordinate with community groups, promote voter registration, and document voter suppression. An extensive digitized collection of primary source materials, including orientation brochures, reading lists and press materials may be found here: Civil Rights Movement -- SCLC/SCOPE Project (crmvet.org). The Museum has been honored to record oral histories with several activists who took part in the 1965 SCOPE project. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Phillip McKenna Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Phillip McKenna. McKenna became an early anti-Vietnam War activist in 1964. While attending the University of California, Santa Barbara, he spent the summer of 1965 participating in the Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Interview conducted over Zoom on March 22, 2022 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long.
Phillip McKenna Oral History
03/22/2022
Interviews
Civil rights
Oral histories
Protests
Vietnam
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Santa Barbara
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Vietnam (OHC)
Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)
Duration: 57 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2022.001.0015
The Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was an ambitious undertaking in the summer of 1965 in preparation of passage of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Hundreds of predominantly white college students were recruited to travel to six southern states to coordinate with community groups, promote voter registration, and document voter suppression. An extensive digitized collection of primary source materials, including orientation brochures, reading lists and press materials may be found here: Civil Rights Movement -- SCLC/SCOPE Project (crmvet.org). The Museum has been honored to record oral histories with several activists who took part in the 1965 SCOPE project. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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