Archive Record
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Dr. Raymond Arsenault Freedom Riders & Civil Rights Collection |
Collection |
Dr. Raymond Arsenault Freedom Riders & Civil Rights Collection |
Catalog Number |
2012.001 |
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Scope & Content |
Dr. Raymond Arsenault Freedom Riders & Civil Rights Collection 14 cubic boxes; 17 cubic feet The Ray Arsenault Collection at ASU consists of interviews and manuscripts that cover an array of topics ranging from the Freedom Riders, to Voting Rights as well as the many different phases of the Civil Rights Movement. Most of the collection is interviews of Civil Rights activists from all over America. These interviews are first-hand accounts of the brutality and the senseless violence inflicted upon America's citizens. Dr. Raymond Otsby Arsenault was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts in 1948. After high school he attended Princeton University graduating in 1969. He received his Master’s and Doctoral Degrees from Brandeis University in 1974 and 1981. He has received accolades for his work. He taught at the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University and served as a Fulbright Lecturer at Universite d’Angers in France. He has been Professor of Southern History since 1980 at the University of South Florida. He is best known for his study of the Freedom Riders, discussing their importance in America's history on the Oparah Winfrey Show. Dr. Arsenault has been a resource for various projects. He has served as a consultant for the National Park Service, the National Civil Rights Museum, the Rosa Parks Library and Museum at Troy University in Alabama, and the United States Information Agency. Arsenault is a prolific writer. His works include: • Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney. Montgomery: New South Books. (2013) • Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice New York: Oxford University Press. ( 2006, 2011) • The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America (2009) • Arsenault, Raymond. (2008) The Third Space of Enunciation: Proceedings of the English Department Conference, 9–10 March 2006 (Editor) (Gabes, Tunisia: High Institute of Languages, Gabes, 2008). • Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. (2005) • The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. (2002) • Crucible of Liberty: 200 Years of the Bill of Rights. New York: The Free Press, 1991. • St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950. Norfolk: Donning. (2nd. Ed.: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996) • "The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture. Journal of Southern History. 50(4): 597-628 (1984). • The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Bases of Southern Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (1984,1998) |
Search Terms |
Arsenault, Raymond Otsby 1961 Freedom Rides African American Civil Rights Workers Civil Rights Civil Rights in Alabama Civil Rights in Montgomery, Alabama Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Workers Freedom Riders Freedom Riders Movement Montgomery Bus Riots Patterson, John Race Relations Race Relations in Alabama Race Relations in Montgomery, Alabama SCLC Segregation Segregation in Alabama Segregation in Montgomery, Alabama Segregation in Southern States SNCC Southern Christian Leadership Conference Southern states Student Activism Student Movements Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Student Protest |
People |
Arsenault, Raymond Otsby |
Child Records |
Box 01 - Personal Files, Documents, Letters Box 02 - Written Letters, Written Notes Box 03 - Newspaper Articles: Mississippi Sovereignty Commision and various publications. Box 04 - Newspaper Articles, Documents (FBI Files) Box 05 - Newspaper Articles pertaring to Birmingham Police Box 06 - SCLC Papers, Virgina Durr, Freedom Songs Box 07 - JKF Library, MLK Papers, Studies of Urban Black Communities Box 08 - Freedom Riders Box 09 - Thornton Manuscript, Members of SCLC and SNCC Box 10 - Freedom Rider Notes Box 11 - Various Articles Box 12 - Articles Box 13 - Notable People in Civil Rights Box 14 - Notes (Montgomery Improvement Association) |