Graham, Leroy

Abstract Martin David Jenkins (1904-1978) was the president of Morgan State College (now University) from 1948 to 1970 and the Director of the Office of Urban Affairs for the American Council on Education from 1970 to 1974. In this oral history interview, Jenkins discusses Carl Murphy's role in the civil rights movement; Morgan State's role in the community; Theodore R. McKeldin and his support for civil rights; and the honorary degree freedom fighter Lillie May Carroll Jackson received from Morgan...

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Raymond A. C. Young (b. 1906) was a United States Post Office carrier and the first African American appointed as a mail route inspector in Baltimore, Maryland. In this oral history interview, Young discusses discrimination in post offices and unions; the success of Lillie May Carroll Jackson and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as due to "church people"; and a department store discrimination fight.

Abstract Samuel Hopkins (1913-2008) was a veteran and investment banker who had strong ancestral ties to the abolition movement in Maryland and Baltimore City. He was an active Republican and ran in several different political elections; he successfully ran for and was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates from 1950-1954, and unsuccessfully ran for congress in 1952 and mayor in 1955. In this oral history interview, Hopkins discusses his notable ancestors Elisha Tyson, George Elliot, Moses...

Abstract Virginia Jackson Kiah (1911-2001) was the daughter of freedom fighter Lillie May Carroll Jackson. She was an artist as well as the membership secretary in the 1930s of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In this oral history interview, Kiah discusses Lillie May Carroll Jackson's qualifications to be a minister; her mother's disapproval of her marriage to Calvin Kiah; the role of the "upper crust" in the civil rights movement; and...

Abstract Dr. Winfred Octavus Bryson, Jr. (1915-2003) was a Morgan State economics professor from 1937 to 1984 and in 1957 he established Advance Federal Savings and Loan Association to specifically serve the Black community in Baltimore, Maryland. In this oral history interview, Bryson discusses freedom fighter Lillie May Carroll Jackson; his own early work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as auditor and board member; Advance Federal Savings and Loan...