Cline, David P., 1969-Tillow, Walter M., 1940-United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)2013-06-21Walter Tillow discusses how he joined the Civil Rights Movement as a college student and how that led him into labor and leftist movements. He describes his childhood in New York City and the leftist politics of his parents, as well as how he learned about the Movement as a college student at Harpur College and as a graduate student at Cornell University. In 1963 he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and moved to Fayette County, Georgia where he worked on voter registration drives. He later worked in the SNCC communication office in Atlanta. He describes in detail the movement for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In 1965 he left the Movement to work for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and he later worked for the Communist Party.image/gifimage/jpegimage/jp2image/tifftext/xmlapplication/pdfengForms part of online collection: Civil Rights History Projecthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Civil rights movements--United StatesCivil rights movements--MississippiStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)Mississippi Freedom Democratic PartyVoter registration--GeorgiaCivil rights workers--InterviewsCommunists--United States--InterviewsWalter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013-06-21MovingImageText