Title
Race and the Civil Rights Movement
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JonesL_02_20140116-Final_Clip06
Publication Date
1-16-2014
Publisher
The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Transcript
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
Okay. So you’re eleven, riding with college kids.
Lovell Jones, PhD
Yeah. Oh, that was—it ruined me. (laughter)
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
I mean, how so ruined you? In a good way or a bad way?
Lovell Jones, PhD
Well, my mom kicked me out of the house when I was fifteen [unclear].
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
Oh, my goodness.
Lovell Jones, PhD
I think it was fifteen. No, it was a little less. No, let’s see. I was thirteen. Thirteen.
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
I mean, did it turn you into a radical? I mean, what happened?
Lovell Jones, PhD
Well, I got adopted by the college kids, and I participated in the civil rights stuff that they participated in because the bus would go and I would go. I was their mascot. (laughs)
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
So these were students who had been radicalized.
Lovell Jones, PhD
Mm-hmm, yeah.
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
And they were participating in civil rights. And the year would have been?
Lovell Jones, PhD
1960. (Rosolowski laughs.) So that was interesting.
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
What were some of the events you attended that you—
Lovell Jones, PhD
Marches downtown, sit-ins downtown. (laughs)
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
Did you ever get picked up by the police?
Lovell Jones, PhD
No, because they kind of protected me. They’d shove me away.
Tacey Ann Rosolowski, PhD
Now, did you understand what was going on at the time?
Lovell Jones, PhD
I would say probably not really. It’s like, “Hmm. I’m not going to make class now,” or, “I’m going to be late to get to class.” That’s the only thing. So it was interesting. I mean, they didn’t do it often and I didn’t go with them often, but it was enough for me to see some things.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Lovell Ph.D. and Rosolowski, Tacey A. Ph.D., "Race and the Civil Rights Movement" (2014). Race, Gender, & Work @ The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Triumphs of Houston’s Leading Hospital. 26.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_racegenderwork/26
