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Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 30, 1976. Interview G-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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One example of the violent opposition to the SCLC

The S.C.L.C. leaders often faced opposition to their work in the form of physical violence.

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Interviewer	Eugene Walker
Interviewee	Septima Poinsette Clark
Excerpt Length	0:00:39
Start Time	00:12:25
Stop Time	00:13:04
Subjects	Race and Civil Rights > RACE ORGANIZATIONS > Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Race and Civil Rights > SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS > Community Empowerment Race and Civil Rights > WHITE RESPONSES TO CHANGE > Resistance: Other Group Race and Civil Rights > RACE AND RACE RELATIONS > Physical Harassment and Violence
Excerpt People	Young, Andrew Cotton, Dorothy

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Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 30, 1976. Interview G-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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EUGENE WALKER:: Did you have any strong opposition against this kind of a program that you were going to . . .
SEPTIMA POINSETTE CLARK:: Oh, yes, we did. We had lots of opposition. Andy Young was badly beaten in Tallahassee, Florida, going down there to try to recruit the people. That was in the latter part of '61. When he went in there to try to recruit people, he was beaten. Dorothy Cotton was along. I wasn't in Tallahassee, but at that time Dorothy was not beaten, but Andy was.