- Collection:
- Social Change Collection
- Title:
- Michael Lomax oral history interview, 2013-01-11
- Creator:
- Lomax, Michael
- Contributor to Resource:
- Young, Andrea, 1955-
Newman, Harvey K. - Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2013-01-11
- Subject:
- Civil rights
Civil rights movement
Segregation in transportation
Civil rights demonstrations
City Planning
Transportation - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003
Young, Andrew, 1932- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Michael Lomax came to Atlanta, GA in 1964 and lived in Atlanta for more than 50 years. He met Dr. Martin Luther King in the late 1950's when he was in Los Angeles. Michael was in college during 1964-1968 period and he was powerfully influenced by the civil rights movement and the leaders of the movement. Lomax was the chairman of the board of commissioners of Fulton County in Georgia. He taught literature at Morehouse and Spelman College, Emory University, GaTech and the University of Georgia.
In this interview, Michael speaks about how he was influenced by many civil rights leaders and how his mother's journalistic career took them both to Montgomery, Alabama in 1956 where she was covering the bus boycott and where he also met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He speaks about the psychological trauma that people endured during 1968, and the civil rights movement seemed scattered due to everything that happened in that year. He also speaks about his faith and how he became a congregationalist by education. He also mentions that he got involved in politics after he became a speech writer in 1973 for Maynard Jackson. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/schange/id/852
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/schange:852/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Lomax, Michael, interviewed by Andrea Young and Harvey Newman, January 11, 2013, Harvey Newman Papers, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:31:50
- Original Collection:
- Making of Modern Atlanta Interviews
Harvey Newman Papers
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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