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Elmer Dixon Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Dixon, Elmer, American
- Interviewed by
- Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
- Subject of
- Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Carmichael, Stokely, Trinidadian American, 1941 - 1998
- Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
- Seale, Bobby, American, born 1936
- Dr. Newton, Huey P., American, 1942 - 1989
- Dixon, Aaron, American, born 1949
- Date
- February 28, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 02:32:32
- Description
- The oral history consists of eleven digital files: 2011.174.57.1a, 2011.174.57.1b, 2011.174.57.1c, 2011.174.57.1d, 2011.174.57.1e, 2011.174.57.1f, 2011.174.57.1g, 2011.174.57.1h, 2011.174.57.1i, 2011.174.57.1j, and 2011.174.57.1k.
- Elmer Dixon discusses his childhood in Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington, where he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., and heard Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader Stokely Carmichael speak. At 17 he met Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in Oakland and established, with his brother Aaron Dixon as Defense Captain, the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. Dixon discusses his work with the Panthers, the survival of several of the programs he started, including a health clinic, his work after the Panther chapter closed down in 1978, and his current position as director of an executive consulting firm specializing in diversity issues.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0057
- Place collected
- Seattle, King County, Washington, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Black Power (Black Pride)
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American West
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Medicine
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- U.S. History, 1969-2001
- 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
- 2011.174.57.1a-k
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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Aaron Dixon Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Dixon, Aaron, American, born 1949
- Interviewed by
- Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
- Subject of
- Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
- Black Student Union at the University of Washington, American, founded 1968
- University of Washington, American, founded 1861
- Hutton, Robert James, American, 1950 - 1968
- Date
- May 11, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 02:27:31
- Description
- The oral history consists of eleven digital files: 2011.174.87.1a, 2011.174.87.1b, 2011.174.87.1c, 2011.174.87.1d, 2011.174.87.1e, 2011.174.87.1f, 2011.174.87.1g, 2011.174.87.1h, 2011.174.87.1i, 2011.174.87.1j, and 2011.174.87.1k.
- Aaron Dixon describes his childhood in the Midwest and in Seattle and how he became a leader in the Black Panther Party, helping to found the Seattle chapter of the Party. He helped Dixon describes in detail his family history and the influence of oral tradition on his racial consciousness. He discusses the role of the Black Student Union at the University of Washington and details how the murder of Little Bobby Hutton influenced him profoundly and led him to join the Black Panther Party. He describes the Party's influence in Seattle and Oakland, his role in the Party, tensions with the police, tensions among members, and how the goals of the Black Panther Party shifted over the during 1960s and 1970s.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0087
- Place collected
- Seattle, King County, Washington, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Black Power (Black Pride)
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American West
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- Race relations
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- U.S. History, 1969-2001
- 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
- 2011.174.87.1a-k
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress