Watkins / A Call to Do Something for Ourselves
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Watkins: Beginning to hear the kids from New York, and they’re not experiences what I experience when I come home. I began to see that it should be better, and it can be better. Then when I was at Texas Southern, it was a call for us to start doing something for ourselves and organizing. After the incident in North Carolina, that’s when we really got motivated. Now, they were trying to hold us back. They hired Reverend Bill Larson in Houston as a chaplain. Reverend Larson was trying to show us that we have to be patient. We let him say the prayer to start our meeting, but we asked him to leave when we started discussing what we wanted to do. He began to respect us for what we were doing.
| Interview | Interview with Halcyon O. Watkins |
| Subjects | Education › Higher Education |
| Education › Private and Parochial Education | |
| Direct Action | |
| Student Activism › Sit-ins | |
| Student Activism › Student Activism and Training | |
| Religion › Clergy | |
| Tags | Texas Southern University |
| St. Frances de Sales High School, Powhatan, VA | |
| Lawson, William A. "Bill" | |
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| Interview date | 2015-07-23 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Watkins, Halcyon O. |
| Locations | Houston, TX |
| Texas Southern University | |
| Duration | 00:01:10 |
| Citation | "A Call to Do Something for Ourselves," from Halcyon O. Watkins oral history interview with , July 23, 2015, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/284/a-call-to-do-something-for-ourselves, accessed December 22, 2024 |
