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Alfred Moldovan, MD Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Moldovan, Alfred MD, American, born 1921
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- United States Air Force, American, founded 1947
- Medical Committee for Human Rights, American, founded 1964
- Date
- July 19, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:58:31
- Description
- The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.36.1a, 2011.174.36.1b, 2011.174.36.1c, and 2011.174.36.1d.
- Alfred Moldovan, MD remembers growing up in the Bronx and the influence of his parents, who were Jewish Hungarian immigrants. He recalls serving in the air force as a radio repairman during World War II and later attending medical school. He discusses founding the Medical Committee for Human Rights and traveling to the South to assist injured civil rights activists at events such as the Selma to Montgomery March.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0036
- Place collected
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Selma to Montgomery Marches
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- Families
- Immigration
- Medicine
- Military
- Race relations
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- World War II
- 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
- 2011.174.36.1a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress