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Gwendolyn M. Patton Oral History Interview
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.- 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
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:51:26
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- 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
- Date
- June 1, 2011
- 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
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Medicine
- Politics (Practical)
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- United States--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