civil rights – Terry Buffington

FUNDI: THE ELLA BAKER STORY Kenworthy PAC Premiere march 26, 2023

From the Terry Buffington Papers 1952-2014 https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70107/#d1e49, held in the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Terry Buffington Foundation Presents, Fundi: The Ella Baker Story, film premiere at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow Idaho! FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker, a friend and …

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Listen To The Eddie Brooks Tapes Here

Cultural Anthropologist Terry Buffington interviewed Mr. Brooks on November 18, 2010 in Tupelo Mississippi about his involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s as a teenager.In 1964 Eddie Brooks was a young black male, age 17 who was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Marks and grew up on the southside of …

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Terry Buffington Oxford Afro Culture Center 1981

Her first year at the University of Mississippi, Terry Buffington created the Oxford Afro Culture Center, a non-profit community organization which continued until she graduated. Professor Buffington has over 35 years of experience in the sector.

The Eddie Brooks Tapes Stage Reading Feb. 17-19, 2023

From the Terry Buffington Papers 1952-2014 held at the Wilson Special Collections Library, Southern Historical Collection, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill. Terry Buffington Productions Presents, Born Under Jim Crow: The Eddie Brooks Tapes. Listen to the tapes here https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/07ddd/id/86/rec/1 Cultural Anthropologist Terry Buffington interviewed Mr. Brooks on November 18, 2010 in Tupelo Mississippi …

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Terry Buffington Papers and Oral Histories Available Online

The finding aid (collection guide) to Terry Buffington’s papers and recorded oral histories is now published and available through the University of North Carolina’s libraries. This collection includes tapes and transcripts of SNCC affiliates, materials documenting life and work in Clay County, Miss., 1950s-1970s, materials from Buffington’s late husband, John Buffington, and a scrapbook highlighting the …

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