Mildred Bond Roxborough Oral History Interview

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The oral history consists of two digital files, 2011.174.2.1a and 2011.174.2.1b, as well as a transcript, 2011.174.2.2. Mildred Bond Roxborough discusses how she became active in the civil rights movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP magazine, The Crisis. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker and worked in a variety of administrative positions including as director of development. Julian Bond, the interviewer, was a Civil Rights icon and one of the founders of the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

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