Jenkins, Timothy Lionel, 1938- interviewee Crosby, Emilye, interviewer Bishop, John Melville, videographer Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) moving image videorecording text two-dimensional moving image Personal narratives. Filmed interviews. Interviews. Oral histories. Video recordings. dcu 2015 monographic 20151209 2015. eng

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6 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (02:20:40) : digital, sound, color. transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. Timothy Jones discusses his personal experiences growing up in Philadelphia and in particular his experiences in integrated school. He describes at length his experience attending Howard University, and why Howard was so important to the Civil Rights Movement. He describes how he became a lawyer, and his political involvement with the Civil Rights Movement as an African American lawyer. Jenkins discusses some of the nuances of the political climate of the 1960s, and how that influenced SNCC's decision-making process. Jenkins concludes the interview by recalling the three events that he felt he directly affected the course of history. Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. Recorded in Washington, District of Columbia, on December 9, 2015. Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0126), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.). Timothy Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 1938, and was raised in a family invested in education. He received full tuition funding from a scholarship to Howard University in 1956. He stayed connected to the university after he graduated through his position as the National Affairs Vice President for the United States National Student Association. This position is also how he got involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He later went to law school at Yale, which was integral to his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. Jenkins' role in the SNCC summer meeting of 1961 was particularly important in deciding to create Freedom Schools. He also attended and helped organize the Greenwood Folk Festival, and other folk festivals. He continues his involvement with law and racial justice. The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement. In English. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 n-us-dc n-us-ms n-us-ga Jenkins, Timothy Lionel, 1938- Interviews Baker, Ella, 1903-1986 Doar, John, 1921-2014 Johnson, Mordecai W. (Mordecai Wyatt), 1890-1976 Lee, Herbert, 1919-1961 Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) Freedom Singers (SNCC) Howard University. National Conference of Black Lawyers. Northern Student Movement. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Teaching for Change (Organization) United States National Student Association. African American civil rights workers Interviews African American lawyers Interviews Civil rights movements Mississippi Civil rights movements United States Folk music festivals Mississippi Greenwood Folk music festivals Political aspects United States Nonviolence United States Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0126 (DLC) 2012655221 AFC 2010/039: 0126 2016655417 hdl:loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0126 dacs DLC 190930 20250607095349.0 21221465 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng