August Meier (1923-2003) was a civil rights activist, a scholar of African American history, and the author of Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington (1963). The collection contains six audio recordings, five of which are interviews with civil rights activist Charles McDew, and one speech by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, dated 1985.
August Meier (April 30, 1923-March 19, 2003) was a white civil rights activist, a scholar of African American history, and the author of Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington (1963). Meier taught history at several historically Black colleges and universities including Tougaloo College (1945-1949), Fisk University (1953-1956), and Morgan State College, now Morgan State University (1957-1964). He was a professor of history at Kent State University from 1967 to 1993.
Meier served as secretary of the Newark chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1951 to 1952, and from 1956 to 1957. He was a member of the Baltimore Chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (1960-1963), and of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (1963-1964). While he was active in the civil rights movement, Meier's research became focused on the origins of nonviolent protest.
The collection contains six audio recordings, five of which are interviews with civil rights activist Charles McDew, and one speech by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, dated 1985. They are organized alphabetically by speaker's last name. The audio recordings have intermittent buzzing throughout.
August Meier, 1988 and 1994.
Collection inventoried by Nathan Evans. Collection processed and described by Lyric Evans-Hunter, archivist. Finding aid published in 2024.
See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the August Meier papers, Sc MG 340.
See the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division for titles by August Meier.