An Oral History Project Conducted by John Robert Lewis Fellow Annie Li
Project Description
I will interview Vincent Wu, a Chinese American who participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. Wu immigrated from China to New York City. While a graduate student at the University of Illinois, he responded to a call to join the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Selma. Wu went to the South on two other occasions for voting rights work, in Greene County, Alabama, in 1966 and Jackson, Mississippi, in 1968. I will interview him about his upbringing, experiences in the Movement, and reflections on his racial, religious, and political consciousness. This interview, while conducted for the JRL oral history assignment, is part of my larger project on Chinese Americans in the Civil Rights and Asian American Movements of the twentieth century.
Oral History Interview with Vincent Wu - 06/14/2024
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