/internal/media/dispatcher/75868/fullNeil Reichline Oral History03/07/2022Duration: 46 MinutesBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00120Videotaped oral history interview with Neil Reichline. Inspired by a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965, Reichline volunteered for the Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The next year he was in Jackson, Mississippi, for the conclusion of the 1966 March Against Fear. Reichline was also an anti-Vietnam War activist.
Interview conducted via Zoom on March 7, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-six minutes long.Oral Histories722970E-100E-1073085Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Neil Reichline. Inspired by a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965, Reichline volunteered for the Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The next year he was in Jackson, Mississippi, for the conclusion of the 1966 March Against Fear. Reichline was also an anti-Vietnam War activist.
Interview conducted via Zoom on March 7, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-six minutes long.InterviewsOral historiesSpeechesProtestsVolunteersVietnamCivil rightsSocial and political climate1960sRacismKing, Martin Luther, Jr.Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceLos AngelesJacksonCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Vietnam (OHC)An August 2015 story about Neil Reichline's 1960s activism, published in the Los Angeles Daily News, may be accessed here: Tarzana man helped Southern blacks register to vote ahead of landmark Voting Rights Act – Daily News. - Stephen Fagin, Curator Neil Reichline's civil rights activism was inspired by a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the University of California, Los Angeles on April 27, 1965, that was attended by more than 4,500 students and faculty members. More information and an audio recording of the full fifty-five minute speech may be found here on the UCLA Anderson School of Management website: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 UCLA Speech | UCLA Anderson School of Management. - Stephen Fagin, Curator The Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was an ambitious undertaking in the summer of 1965 in preparation of passage of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Hundreds of predominantly white college students were recruited to travel to six southern states to coordinate with community groups, promote voter registration, and document voter suppression. An extensive digitized collection of primary source materials, including orientation brochures, reading lists and press materials may be found here via the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Archive: Civil Rights Movement -- SCLC/SCOPE Project. The Sixth Floor Museum has been honored to record oral histories with a number of activists who took part in the 1965 SCOPE project. - Stephen Fagin, Curator