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Julia Matilda Burns Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Burns, Julia Matilda, American, born 1938
- Interviewed by
- Dittmer, John Ph. D., American, born 1939
- Date
- March 13, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:54:32
- Description
- The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.73.1a and 2011.174.73.1b.
- Julia Matilda Burns describes her experience in segregated schools in Humphreys County, Mississippi, where she grew up. After becoming a teacher at Marshall High School in Belzoni, Mississippi, she began to take notice of the Civil Rights Movement, but her involvement was limited because she did not want to lose her job. Burns describes protests by whites against school desegregation in Tchula, Mississippi, and her experiences as a teacher in Tchula. She also discusses her successful election for a position on the school board and the work she accomplished during her tenure.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0073
- Place collected
- Tchula, Holmes County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.73.1ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress