Robinson, Reginald, 1939- 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 20151211 2015. eng

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10 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (03:26:30) : digital, sound, color. transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. Reginald "Reg" Robinson shares his experience of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and how he became known as an "advance man" throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Beginning with his involvement with the student-led Civic Interest Group in Baltimore, Maryland, he discusses how his involvement with the Cambridge Movement led him to becoming a field secretary for SNCC. He recalls how Voter Education Programs and various recruitment activities of SNCC epitomized the rule of "building and growing" and prides himself for remaining committed to ensuring Civil Rights today. 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 11, 2015. Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0130), 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.). Reginald Robinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1939. After leaving high school during the eleventh grade to work, he eventually attended Cortez Peters Business College, where he first got involved in civil rights through the student organization, Civic Interest Group. He quickly became involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1961. Working for SNCC as a field secretary, his duties focused on supporting voter registration in McComb, Mississippi and Cambridge, Maryland. After SNCC, he worked multiple jobs around the country before finally settling in Washington, DC, where he eventually retired in 2001. 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-md n-us-ms Robinson, Reginald, 1939- Interviews Baker, Ella, 1903-1986 Forman, James, 1928-2005 Lee, Herbert, 1919-1961 McDew, Charles. Moore, Amzie, 1911-1982 Nash, Diane, 1938- Richardson, Gloria, 1922- Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith, 1941-1967 Zellner, Bob. Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.) Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) African American civil rights workers Maryland Interviews African American civil rights workers Mississippi Interviews Civil rights demonstrations Maryland Baltimore Civil rights demonstrations Maryland Cambridge Civil rights movements United States Voter registration Maryland Voter registration Mississippi Cambridge (Md.) Race relations History 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_crhp0130 (DLC) 2012655221 AFC 2010/039: 0130 2016655421 hdl:loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0130 dacs DLC 191001 20250607095357.0 21223764 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng