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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/sobek/FI14105672/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Emmanuel George interviews Samuel Anderson on April 11, 2024 at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Samuel Edward Anderson was born on August 16, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents’ ancestry consists of Jamaican, Barbadian, and West African roots. At the age of four, Anderson and his family moved to Germany due to his father’s service in World War II. He learned German and attended kindergarten. At the age of eight, his family returned to the United States and lived in Amityville, New York. In middle school, he lived in Panama and in high school he lived in New Britain, Connecticut.
Samuel Anderson attended Lincoln University where he studied mathematics and developed lifelong relationships with his teachers, friends, and classmates. He explains how he immersed himself in Black history and this influenced his involvement with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) campus chapter, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Black Panther Party. Samuel Anderson describes his experiences at Lincoln in 1964: racial prejudice, administration tensions, and campus politics. He recalls his interactions with Malcom X, other organizers, and the establishment of the Harlem chapter of the Black Panther Party after graduating from college. He highlights the early foundations of the Black Panther Party and the infiltration of the Harlem chapter in 1966. By 1968, Samuel Anderson focused on his passion for teaching. He shares his relocation to Sarah Lawrence College to create a Black Studies program. He worked with two faculty members to create an interdisciplinary studies curriculum that allowed students to obtain an education regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or sex. He went on to teach at Rutgers University, The New School, New York University, and Medgar Evers College.
- Funding:
- This content is part of a Mellon Foundation-funded project coordinated by the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) at FIU and eight community partner institutions titled “Community Data Curation: Preserving, Creating, and Narrating Everyday Stories.”
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- African American Research Library and Cultural Center
- Holding Location:
- African American Research Library and Cultural Center
- Rights Management:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Resource Identifier:
- George_Anderson_edit_20240411 ( local )
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