Barber, Carroll G.
Biographical Note
Carroll G. Barber (1924-1999) was born in Wheaton, Illinois, on August 26, 1924. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1948 and a graduate degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona. He worked for a time as an anthropologist in Sonora, Mexico. In 1961, he became associated with Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, serving as a part-time instructor in the anthropology department. In July of that year, he participated in a Freedom Ride from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Jackson, Mississippi, and was arrested on July 15, 1961. Barber served as a staff associate of the Race Relations Institute of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, housed at Fisk University, and may have also, for a time, been employed by the Amistad Research Center, which resided on Fisk's campus. Barber later relocated to Tucson, Arizona, where he retired as a librarian with the Tucson Public Library. Sources: Carroll G. Barber obituary. Arizona Daily Star, May 18, 1999. Interview of Carroll Barber by Robert Penn Warren, February 16, 1964. Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project (https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7bk35m9h13) "Carroll G. Barber." Robert Penn Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro? An Archival Collection (https://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interviewee/carroll-barber)