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Myrtle Gonza Glascoe Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Gonza Glascoe, Myrtle, American, 1936 - 2019
- Interviewed by
- Reece, Dwandalyn R., American
- Subject of
- Howard University, American, founded 1867
- University of Pennsylvania, American, founded 1740
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Newsome Jackson, Gertrude, American, born 1923
- Himmelbaum, Howard, American
- Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942
- Avery Research Center, American, founded 1985
- Date
- November 17, 2010
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:33:35
- Description
- The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.3.1a and 2011.174.3.1b.
- Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work. She remembers joining the Baltimore Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), moving to California, and her work as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in West Point, Mississippi and Phillips County, Arkansas, where she worked closely with Howard Himmelbaum and Gertrude Jackson. She also discusses her work as the director of the Avery Research Center and her opinions on the education of African Americans.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0003
- Place collected
- Capitol Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- West Point, Clay County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Phillips County, Arkansas, 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
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- 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
- 2011.174.3.1ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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Gertrude Newsome Jackson Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Newsome Jackson, Gertrude, American, born 1923
- Interviewed by
- Paysour, LaFleur
- Subject of
- Gonza Glascoe, Myrtle, American, 1936 - 2019
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Himmelbaum, Howard, American
- Head Start Program, American, founded 1965
- Date
- November 22, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:57:01
- Description
- The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.4.1a and 2011.174.4.1b.
- Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in rural Arkansas. She discusses assisting Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers Howard Himmelbaum and Myrtle Glascoe, working for Head Start, and starting a community center. Jackson's grandson is also interviewed. He joins her towards the end of file #2.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0004
- Place collected
- Marvell, Phillips County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Madison, St. Clair County, Illinois, 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
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- Education
- Segregation
- 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
- 2011.174.4.1ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress