/internal/media/dispatcher/73768/fullCarroll Brown Oral History08/06/2008Duration: 90 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2008.001.00640Oral History with Carroll Brown
As a student at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Brown became one of the earliest civil rights activists in Dallas by organizing a 1960 drugstore sit-in. Brown, one of the few white activists in the city, played a prominent role in local protests from 1960 to 1967.Oral Histories645280E-100E-1026487Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Carroll Brown. As a student at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Brown became an early civil rights activist in Dallas by organizing a 1960 drugstore sit-in. Brown, one of few white activists in the city at the time, played a prominent role in local civil rights protests from 1960 to 1967.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 6, 2008 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and thirty minutes long.StudentProtestsCivil rightsOral historiesBrown, CarrollSouthern Methodist UniversityPerkins School of TheologyDallasCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Carroll S. "C.B." Brown passed away on November 8, 2011. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator