Box 11

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Harney Newman and Andrea Young. In this interview, Michael speaks about how he was influenced by many civil rights leaders and how his mother's journalistic career took them both to Montgomery, Alabama in 1956 where she was covering the bus boycott and where he also met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He speaks about the psychological trauma that people endured during 1968, and the civil rights movement seemed scattered due to everything that happened in that year. He also speaks...