/internal/media/dispatcher/76996/fullAlan Reich Oral History04/06/2022Duration: 76 MinutesBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00220Videotaped oral history interview with Alan Reich. Reich became politically active as a New York high school student in 1963, volunteering with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and protesting at the opening of the 1964 New York World’s Fair. He spent the summer of 1965 in Mississippi, testing the new Civil Rights Act and documenting ongoing school segregation. Reich later became an anti-Vietnam War activist.
Interview conducted via Zoom on April 6, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and sixteen minutes long.
Technical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file (.MP4), a Zoom gallery view file (.MP4), a Zoom subtitles file (.VTT), and an isolated Zoom audio track (.MP4A).Oral Histories729500E-100E-1073119Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Alan Reich. Reich became politically active as a New York high school student in 1963, volunteering with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and protesting at the opening of the 1964 New York World’s Fair. He spent the summer of 1965 in Mississippi, testing the new Civil Rights Act and documenting ongoing school segregation. Reich later became an anti-Vietnam War activist.
Interview conducted via Zoom on April 6, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and sixteen minutes long.InterviewsCivil rightsOral historiesVolunteersStudentProtestsSegregationVietnamRace relationsIntegrationRacism1960sDemocracyCampaign1968 presidential electionDesegregationYouthArrestLegislationJohnson, Lyndon B.Lewis, JohnStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)MississippiNew YorkCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)Vietnam (OHC)A 2011 essay, "In the New York SNCC Office," by Alan Reich may be found here as part of the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Archive: Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- In the New York SNCC Office. - Stephen Fagin, Curator The Museum's Collection features several artifacts, oral history interviews, and public programs focused on the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). These materials may be viewed on the Museum's online database here: Thesaurus – Vocabularies – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger