- Collection:
- Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Series
- Title:
- Interview with James E. Gober, 2009 October 22
- Creator:
- Drysdale, Jessica Renee
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lutz, Jay
Gober, James E.
Scott, Thomas Allan, 1943- - Publisher:
- Interview with James E. Gober, 2009-10-22, Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights series, 2009-2010, Kennesaw State University Oral History Project, 1973- , KSU/45/05/001, Kennesaw State University Archives.
- Date of Original:
- 2009-10-22
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--Georgia--Marietta--Hisotry
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
Marietta (Ga.)--Politics and government
Marietta (Ga.)--Social life and customs
Oral histories
Transcripts
Gober, James E.--Interviews - People:
- Gober, James E.
Grogan, Hugh Lewis, 1937- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta, 33.9526, -84.54993
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- James E. Gober grew up in the Baptist Town area of Marietta, Georgia, and graduated from Lemon Street High School. He attended Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, and Daniel Payne Junior College in Birmingham, Alabama. While Mr. Gober was in Birmingham he participated in the civil rights movement. His arrest for protesting segregation was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Gober v. City of Birmingham in 1963. He returned to Marietta and has worked in the City of Marietta Dept. of Recreation and the construction industry. Mr. Gober was the first African American male to hold a position in the Urban Renewal Dept. of the Marietta Housing Authority. He was a longtime friend of community activist Hugh Grogan and is married to Grogan's ex-wife, Bettye.
Interviewed by Jessica Drysdale and Jay Lutz in Marietta, Georgia on October 22, 2009. - Local Identifier:
- ksu-45-05-001-07028
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/11360/270
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- The digital reproductions on this site are provided for research consultation and scholarly purposes only. To request permission to publish, reproduce, publicly display, broadcast, or distribute this material in any format outside of fair use please contact the Kennesaw State University Archives.
- Holding Institution:
- Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management
- Rights:
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