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    Interview Excerpt with ASU Civil Rights Icon, Rev. Fred Reese

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    Staff with the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture sat down with three ASU alumni who are widely considered icons of the civil rights movement. These men discussed both their experience at ASU and their role in the civil rights movement. The interviewee is Fred Reese, also a 1951 graduate, past president of the Dallas County Voters League and leader of the Selma voting rights campaign

    Interview Excerpt with ASU Civil Rights Icon, Atty. Fred Gray

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    Staff with the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture sat down with three ASU alumni who are widely considered icons of the civil rights movement. These men discussed both their experience at ASU and their role in the civil rights movement. The interviewee is attorney Fred Gray, a 1951 ASU graduate. Gray was the attorney of record for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Montgomery Improvement Association. Attorney Gray is recognized as one of the nation’s foremost civil rights attorneys

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    Interview Excerpt with Harry Belafonte, 2010

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    This excerpt is from a December 6, 2010 interview with Harry Belafonte on the campus of ASU. While widely known for his signing, songwriting, and acting, Belafonte talks about organizing high profile entertainers to finance and support the modern civil rights movement. Belafonte describes meeting Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and then committing his life to supporting the struggle for equal rights. In this excerpt Belafonte also talks about supporting the Montgomery Bus Boycott, organizing for the March on Washington, and coordinating entertainers and finances for the voting rights campaign of 1965. Finally, Belafonte talks about internationalizing the American civil rights movement

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