# Evans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Richmond, Virginia, 2011 July 07

Evans Hopkins recalls growing up in Danville, Virginia, and participating in efforts to desegregate public schools and the library. He remembers joining the Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Oakland, California, and working on Bobby Seale's campaign for Mayor of Oakland. He also discusses his imprisonment for car theft and the high rate of incarceration among African American men.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 2011
- Runtime: 1 h 58 min
- By: Mosnier, Joseph
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669128/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2015669128?play=1)