Oral History Voices of Freedom - an oral history collection documenting the life, culture, achievements and sacrifices of participants and witnesses to the civil rights era in America. Your recollections are invaluable to tomorrow’s history. If you would like to add your voice to this collection, please call the Museum. Ann E. Willis – retired social worker, recognized community volunteer and organization leader, life member NAACP, Delta sigma Theta sorority membership. Widow of A.W. Willis, civil rights lawyer, businessman, civil rights and social justice leader. Interview date: September 18, 2004 Ann E. Willis Benjamin Hooks – first black criminal court judge elected in Tennessee, minister, lawyer, former Federal Communications Commission member, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1977 to 1992; National Civil Rights Museum 1998 Freedom Award recipient. Interview date: September 18, 2004 Benjamin Hooks John Lewis – Congressman (GA) 1986 to present; founding member Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and president of the organization from 1963 to 1966; leader SNCC Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign; leader Selma protest march; National Civil Rights Museum 2004 Freedom Award recipient. Interview date: October 18, 2005 John Lewis Taylor Branch – Pulitzer Prize- winning historian and author of three-volume work of biography of Martin Luther King Jr., and of the Civil Rights Movement under his leadership; former staff writer for Washington Monthly, Harper’s and Esquire; 1991 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship for his contributions to American history. Interview date: February 2006 Taylor Branch Part I Taylor Branch Part II Launch in external player

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