Rodney L. Hurst Oral History
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Rodney L. Hurst Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Rodney L. Hurst. As president of the Jacksonville, Florida NAACP Youth Council, Hurst led a series of local sit-in demonstrations, which resulted in an attack by 200 white supremacists on August 27, 1960. Stationed at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth in 1963, he was part of the honor detail when President and Mrs. Kennedy departed for Dallas one hour prior to the assassination. Hurst is the author of several books, including an award-winning account of his civil rights activism, It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke (2008). Interview conducted over Zoom on November 10, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty-eight minutes long.
Rodney L. Hurst Oral History
11/10/2021
Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
Duration: 88 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2021.001.0104
Rodney L. Hurst's first book, It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke (2008), has won multiple awards, including first place for multicultural nonfiction at the 2008 National Best Books Awards. It also received the First Annual Stetson Kennedy Award from the Florida Historical Society in 2009. Mr. Hurst continues to write and speak on civil rights activism. A seventy-five minute multimedia presentation about Ax Handle Saturday, recorded August 26, 2020, may be viewed on the YouTube channel of the University of North Florida Department of English: The Justice Sessions: Rodney Hurst on Ax Handle Saturday, 8/26/20 - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Rodney L. Hurst Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Rodney L. Hurst. As president of the Jacksonville, Florida NAACP Youth Council, Hurst led a series of local sit-in demonstrations, which resulted in an attack by 200 white supremacists on August 27, 1960. Stationed at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth in 1963, he was part of the honor detail when President and Mrs. Kennedy departed for Dallas one hour prior to the assassination. Hurst is the author of several books, including an award-winning account of his civil rights activism, It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke (2008). Interview conducted over Zoom on November 10, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty-eight minutes long.
Rodney L. Hurst Oral History
11/10/2021
Interviews
Oral histories
Fort Worth (OHC)
Civil rights
Fort Worth
Protests
Trip to Texas
Author
NAACP
Carswell Air Force Base
Dallas
Jacksonville
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
Duration: 88 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2021.001.0104
Rodney L. Hurst's first book, It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke (2008), has won multiple awards, including first place for multicultural nonfiction at the 2008 National Best Books Awards. It also received the First Annual Stetson Kennedy Award from the Florida Historical Society in 2009. Mr. Hurst continues to write and speak on civil rights activism. A seventy-five minute multimedia presentation about Ax Handle Saturday, recorded August 26, 2020, may be viewed on the YouTube channel of the University of North Florida Department of English: The Justice Sessions: Rodney Hurst on Ax Handle Saturday, 8/26/20 - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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