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Program from a Mrs. Coretta Scott King recital on September 30, 1956
- Created by
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, American, founded 1877
- Subject of
- King, Coretta Scott, American, 1927 - 2006
- Scott, Minnie Kimbrough, American, died 2012
- Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Date
- September 30, 1956
- Medium
- ink on paper with metal and graphite
- Dimensions
- H x W: 9 × 6 × 1/16 in. (22.9 × 15.3 × 0.1 cm)
- Description
- A program for a recital for Mrs. Coretta Scott King on September 30, 1956. A black-and-white image of Scott King is centrally featured. She is depicted in bust pose, in three-quarters profile looking towards the left edge of the image. She is wearing sleeveless dark dress with a light colored, ruffled neckline. Above the image is black text that reads, [THE USHER BOARDS / AND THE / YOUNG MATRONS COUNCIL / OF / DEXTER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH / PRESENT]. Below the image is additional black text that reads [CORETTA SCOTT KING / SOPRANO / In Recital / MINNIE KIMBROUGH SCOTT / ACCOMPANIST / MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA / Sunday, September 30, 1956 – 5:30 P.M. / Rev. M. L. King, Jr. ………………….Pastor / Mr. L. W. Smiley ………………….Chairman / Mrs. Norman Walton ………………….Co-Chairman / Mr. R. D. Nesbitt ………………….Advisor]. The program has eight (8) interior pages, a front cover, a back cover, and handwritten notes on some of the interior pages. There is a purple sticky note affixed to the back of the booklet.
- Place used
- Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera
- Type
- souvenir programs
- Topic
- American South
- Amusements
- Classical (Music)
- Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Religion
- Singers (Musicians)
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2016.90.5.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
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Gwendolyn M. Patton Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Patton, Gwendolyn M., American, born 1943
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
- Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, American, founded 1877
- Date
- June 1, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:51:26
- Description
- The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.20.1a, 2011.174.20.1b, 2011.174.20.1c, 2011.174.20.1d, 2011.174.20.1e, 2011.174.20.1f, 2011.174.20.1g, and 2011.174.20.1h.
- Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders in 1961, and spending a year in a segregated sanitarium when she had tuberculosis. She recounts organizing Tuskegee students for the Selma to Montgomery March, occupying the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and registering voters in Lowndes County.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0020
- Place collected
- Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Lowndes County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Freedom Riders
- Selma to Montgomery Marches
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Medicine
- Politics
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- 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
- 2011.174.20.1a-h
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress