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Belt buckle from Norma Rae film production presented to Bob Minor

Created by: Hit Line USA
Owned by: Bob Minor, American, born 1944
Commissioned by: Alabama Film Office

Medium: metal
Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/8 × 3 5/16 × 3/4 in. (5.4 × 8.4 × 1.9 cm)

Type: buckles (strap accessories)

Place used: Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1978-1979

Description: A silver belt buckle, rectangular with rounded edges. Decorated like a strip of film (squares along top and bottom like edges of film), with [ALABAMA / FILM COMMISSION / NORMA RAE] in relief in the center. The back is the loop and hook style buckle, silver. Etched into the top back reads [107], and a logo for Hit Line U.S.A. at the bottom, also etched. Handwritten with black ink on reverse reads [BOB MINOR].

Topic: African American; Actors; Clothing and dress; Film; Hollywood (Film); Labor

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bob Minor, Stuntman, Stunt Coordinator, 2nd Unit Director, Actor

Object number: 2014.303.4

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Clothing-Costume

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Chromogenic print of The Last Mr. Bigg in Mobile, Alabama

Photograph by: Davenport, Gregory L Jr., American, born 1977
Subject of: The Last Mr. Bigg, American, ca. 1970 - 2015

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

Type: chromogenic color prints

Place captured: Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: February 2005

Description: A color photograph of Alabama rapper The Last Mr. Bigg.; Bigg is pictured seated, wearing a green Chicago White Sox jacket and hat, and smoking.; He has a white gauze bandage over his proper right eye, with black sunglasses on top. The green baseball cap reads [SOX] diagonally in white. He is wearing a white ribbed shirt under the green jacket. There is a red "C" on the left side of the jacket, outlined in white and then yellow. The word [SOX] is on top of the "C" in white with a yellow outline. He has a goatee and long fingernails. He is holding a cigarette in his mouth with his right hand. His left hand is making a fist and is on top of a newspaper on his lap. He is sitting in a white chair and there is some house siding and a window visible behind him.; There is an inscription on the verso, handwritten by Bill Adler, identifying the subject, location, date and photographer.

Topic: African American; Hip hop (Music); Musicians; Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2015.132.214

Restrictions & Rights: © Gregory L. Davenport Jr.

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Collection title: Eyejammie Hip Hop Photography Collection
Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Letter to Roberta Tate from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Written by: Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
Received by: Tate, Roberta M., American, 1912 - 2011
Signed by: Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)

Type: letters (correspondence)

Place made: Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Place used: Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: New York, United States, North and Central America

Date: October 23, 1958

Caption: This letter was sent as a thank you for a condolence message sent by Roberta Tate to Dr. King "in connection with the unfortunate incident he experienced in New York." The incident refers to the September 20, 1958 attack on Dr. King in Harlem, New York. While signing copies of his book, Stride Toward Freedom, Izola Curry stabbed Dr. King in the chest with a letter opener. She believed that Dr. King was conspiring against her with communists. Doctors were able to save Dr. King's life after hours of surgery.
Description: Typewritten letter from Martin Luther King Jr. to Roberta Tate. The letter is signed by King in blue ink and is dated October 23, 1958. The letterhead is printed in black at the top center, in a gothic font. The letter begins with "Dear Mrs. Tate: Thank you so much for the kind message / you sent to me in connection with the unfortunate incident I experienced in New York..." The back of the document is blank.

Topic: African American; Civil Rights; Correspondence; Social reform; United States--History--1953-1961

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Jyl C. Woolfolk

Object number: 2012.166.1

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials

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Letter to Roberta Tate from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Written by: Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
Received by: Tate, Roberta M., American, 1912 - 2011
Signed by: Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)

Type: letters (correspondence)

Place made: Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Place used: Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Date: December 24, 1958

Caption: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, published in 1958, is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic account of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Description: Typewritten letter from Martin Luther King Jr. to Roberta Tate. The letter is signed by King in black ink and is dated December 24, 1958. The letterhead is printed in black at the top in a gothic font. The letter begins with "Dear Miss Tate: This is just a note to acknowledge receipt of your very kind letter..." The back of the document is blank.

Topic: African American; Civil Rights; Correspondence; Social reform; United States--History--1953-1961

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Jyl C. Woolfolk

Object number: 2012.166.2

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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John and Jean Rosenburg Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Rosenburg, John J. D., born 1931; Rosenburg, Jean, American
Interviewed by: Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
Subject of: Quakers, English, founded c. 1650; National Socialist German Workers' Party; Wilmington College, American, founded 1870; United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, American, founded 1957; Federal Bureau of Investigation, American, founded 1908; Duke University, American, founded 1838; United States Air Force, American, founded 1947; University of North Carolina School of Law, American, founded 1845; Doar, John Andrew, American, 1921 - 2014; Turnbow, Hartman, American, 1905 - 1988; Voting Rights Act, American, founded 1965; Appalachian Citizens' Law Center, American, founded 2002

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 02:36:57

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Prestonburg, Floyd County, Kentucky, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America; Germany, Europe; Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America; Georgia, United States, North and Central America; Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

Date: August 15, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.100.1a, 2011.174.100.1b, 2011.174.100.1c, 2011.174.100.1d, 2011.174.100.1e, 2011.174.100.1f, 2011.174.100.1g, 2011.174.100.1h, 2011.174.100.1i, and 2011.174.100.1j.; Jean and John Rosenberg, J. D. begin this interview with recollections of their families' backgrounds. Jean learned about social issues as she was raised by a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, and John's family fled Germany under threat from the Nazis. Jean attended Wilmington College and became a research analyst for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. John grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina, where FBI agents kept tabs on his family, attended Duke University, served in the Air Force, and attended the University of North Carolina School of Law. He became an attorney with the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, which became effective after reorganization by John Doar. Much of this interview concerns Jean and John's work with the Civil Rights Division, including support for voter registration efforts in Georgia and Alabama, the investigation of the Hartman Turnbow case, in which a black activist was arrested for an arson attempt on his own home, and an effort to address a murder in Mississippi. John also addresses the effects of the Voting Rights Act in the South, the role of the lawyers in the Civil Rights Division in relation to the FBI and local law enforcement, and a variety of other cases and issues he dealt with. After retirement, the Rosenbergs founded the Appalachian Citizens Law Center.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0100

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil Rights; Education; Law; Military; Social reform; Suffrage; United States--History--1961-1969; United States--History--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: 2011.174.100.1a-j

Restrictions & Rights: © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Annie Pearl Avery Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Avery, Anne Pearl, American, born 1943
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s; Albany Movement, American, 1961 - 1962; Moore, William Lewis, American, 1927 - 1963

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:31:05

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America; Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America; Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America; Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

Date: May 31, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.19.1a, 2011.174.19.1b, 2011.174.19.1c, 2011.174.19.1d, 2011.174.19.1e, 2011.174.19.1f, and 2011.174.19.1g.; Annie Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeting in Atlanta and being stranded and threatened in Marietta, Georgia, on the way home. She discusses her involvement in the Albany Movement, her many arrests for protesting, marching with William Moore, and participating in voter registration drives in many locations across the South.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0019

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil Rights; Law; Politics (Practical); Social reform; Suffrage; United States--History--1953-1961

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: 2011.174.19.1a-g

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Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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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

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:51:26

Type: video recordings; oral histories

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: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil Rights; 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

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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The Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Rev. Dr. Lowery, Joseph Echols, American, born 1921
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909; Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:02:49

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Mobile, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: June 6, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.23.1a, 2011.174.23.1b, 2011.174.23.1c, and 2011.174.23.1d.; The Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the differences in race relations between Mobile and other southern cities, and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He reflects on the effectiveness of nonviolence, the libel suit against him, sit-ins across the country, and the Selma to Montgomery March.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0023

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil Rights; Race relations; Religion; Social reform; United States--History--1953-1961

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: 2011.174.23.1a-d

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Freeman A. Hrabowski, Ph. D. Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Hrabowski, Freeman A. Ph. D., American, born 1950
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Children's Crusade, American, founded 1963; 16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873; Hampton University, American, founded 1868; Meyerhoff Scholars Program, American, founded 1988

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:17:59

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: August 14, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.32.1a, 2011.174.32.1b, 2011.174.32.1c, 2011.174.32.1d, 2011.174.32.1e, and 2011.174.32.1f.; Freeman A. Hrabowski Ph. D. recalls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attending the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church. He remembers being arrested for marching in the Birmingham Children's Crusade in 1963, and the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. He also discusses attending Hampton University and later starting the Meyerhoff Scholars Program for African American men studying math and science.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0032

Topic: African American; American South; Associations and institutions; Children; Civil Rights; Education; Men; Religion; Science; Social reform; 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: 2011.174.32.1a-f

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Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Junius W. Williams, J.D. Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Williams, Junius W. J.D., American, born 1943
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Amherst College, American, founded 1821; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s; Long, Worth, American, born 1936; Newark Community Union Project, American, founded 1964

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 02:54:49

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Richmond, Virginia, United States, North and Central America; Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America; Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: July 20, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.37.1a, 2011.174.37.1b, 2011.174.37.1c, 2011.174.37.1d, 2011.174.37.1e, 2011.174.37.1f, 2011.174.37.1g, 2011.174.37.1h, and 2011.174.37.1i.; Junius Williams, J.D. recalls growing up in Richmond, Virginia, attending Amherst College, and joining the student group Students for Racial Equality. He remembers attending the March on Washington, organizing a civil rights conference at Mount Holyoke, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses traveling with other students to the Selma to Montgomery March, being arrested at the march with Worth Long, working as a community organizer with the Newark Community Union Project, and witnessing the riots in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0037

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil Rights; Education; Resistance; Social reform; 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: 2011.174.37.1a-i

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Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Pete Seeger Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Seeger, Pete, American, 1919 - 2014
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Robeson, Paul, American, 1898 - 1976; Highlander Folk School, American; President Barack Obama, American, born 1961; Hayes, Rutherford B., American, 1822 - 1893

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 00:57:22

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Beacon, Dutchess County, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, United States, North and Central America; Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: July 22, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.39.1a, 2011.174.39.1b, 2011.174.39.1c, and 2011.174.39.1d.; Pete Seeger recalls performing at a concert with Paul Robeson in 1949 in Peekskill, New York, visiting the Highlander Folk School, and the evolution of the song "We Shall Overcome". He remembers performing at many civil rights events, including the Selma to Montgomery March. He also discusses his thoughts on Presidents Barack Obama and Rutherford B. Hayes.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0039

Topic: African American; Activism; Civil Rights; Musicians; Politics (Practical); 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: 2011.174.39.1a-d

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Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Kathleen Cleaver, Ph. D. Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Cleaver, Kathleen Ph. D., American, born 1945
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s; Cleaver, Eldridge, American, 1935 - 1998; Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 02:03:09

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; India, Asia; Philippines, Asia

Date: September 16, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.51.1a, 2011.174.51.1b, 2011.174.51.1c, 2011.174.51.1d, 2011.174.51.1e, 2011.174.51.1f, 2011.174.51.1g, 2011.174.51.1h, 2011.174.51.1i, and 2011.174.51.1j.; Kathleen Cleaver, Ph. D. recalls growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, India, and the Philippines while her father worked for the Foreign Service. She remembers dropping out of college to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as a secretary, and witnessing the dissolution of that organization. She discusses meeting her former husband, Eldridge Cleaver, joining the Black Panther Party, and organizing against police brutality.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp005

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil Rights; Education; Social reform; United States--History--1945-1953; United States--History--1953-1961; United States--History--1961-1969; United States--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: 2011.174.51.1a-j

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Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Ackerman, David Mercer, American, born 1942; Ackerman, Satoko Ito, Japanese American, born 1939
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Chicago Theological Seminary, American, founded 1855; Rev. Jackson, Jesse, American, born 1941

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:01:44

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America; Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Silver Spring, Montgomery+County"&edan_local=1&op=Search">Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America

Date: September 20, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.53.1a, 2011.174.53.1b, 2011.174.53.1c, 2011.174.53.1d, 2011.174.53.1e, and 2011.174.53.1f. There is also a photograph and a newspaper clipping that relate to the interview. They are 2011.174.53.3 and 2011.174.53.4.; David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate the Reverend Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, participating in the march, and their later life in Silver Spring, Maryland.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0053

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Civil Rights; Education; Religion; Social reform; 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: 2011.174.53.1a-f

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C.T. Vivian Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Rev. Vivian, C. T., American, born 1924
Interviewed by: Branch, Taylor, American, born 1947
Subject of: American Baptist Theological Seminary; Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961; Mississippi State Penitentiary, American, founded 1901; Children's Crusade, American, founded 1963; Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 4:06:19

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America; Peoria, Illinois, United States, North and Central America; Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America; Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: March 29, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.6.1a, 2011.174.6.1b, 2011.174.6.1c, and 2011.174.6.1d.; C. T. Vivian recalls growing up in Macomb, Illinois, working in Peoria, Illinois, and his call to the ministry. He discusses attending the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, where he met other civil rights activists and participated in demonstrations. He remembers planning the Freedom Rides, his imprisonment at Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm), the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0006

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Children; Civil Rights; Prisons; Religion; 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: 2011.174.6.1a-d

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Ruby Nell Sales Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Nell Sales, Ruby, American, born 1948
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s; Daniels, Jonathan Myrick

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:32:09

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America; Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: April 25, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.7.1a, 2011.174.7.1b, 2011.174.7.1c, 2011.174.7.1d, 2011.174.7.1e, 2011.174.7.1f, 2011.174.7.1g, 2011.174.7.1h, 2011.174.7.1i, and 2011.174.7.1j.; Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. Her father was a Baptist minister and grew up in a racist and segregated society. Her grandmother was either born into slavery or right after it, and learned to read and write. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to Montgomery March, registering voters in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her arrest in Hayneville, Alabama. She remembers the murder of Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student who saved her life, and discusses her opinions on African American history and the current rate of African Americans in prison.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0007

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil Rights; Justice; Military; Politics (Practical); Prisons; Religion; Segregation; Slavery; Social reform; Suffrage; Tuskegee Airmen; 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: 2011.174.7.1a-j

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Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Martha Prescod Norman Noonan Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Noonan, Martha Prescod Norman, American
Interviewed by: Dittmer, John Ph. D., American, born 1939
Subject of: University of Michigan, American, founded 1817; Students for a Democratic Society, American, 1960 - 1969; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963; Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, American, founded 1964

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:32:37

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Cockeysville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Providence, Rhode Island, United States, North and Central America; Michigan, United States, North and Central America; Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America; Mississippi, United States, North and Central America; Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: March 18, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.80.1a, 2011.174.80.1b, 2011.174.80.1c, 2011.174.80.1d, 2011.174.80.1e, 2011.174.80.1f, and 2011.174.80.1g.; Martha Prescod Norman Noonan describes her childhood in Providence, Rhode Island, and being one of the few black families in the neighborhood. Her parents urged her to attend the University of Michigan, where she joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and learned about the Civil Rights Movement in the South. She eventually made her way to Albany, Georgia, where she worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She also worked in the Movement in Mississippi and later in Alabama. Noonan describes the March on Washington, her perception of Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the early iterations of Black Power.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0080

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil Rights; Education; Social reform; 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: 2011.174.80.1a-g

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Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Linda Fuller Degelmann Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Fuller Degelmann, Linda, American
Interviewed by: Dr. Crosby, Emilye Ph. D., American
Subject of: Koinonia Farm, American, founded 1942; Fuller, Millard Dean, American, 1935 - 2009; Habitat for Humanity, American, founded 1976; Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 02:07:51

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: May 28, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.89.1a, 2011.174.89.1b, 2011.174.89.1c, 2011.174.89.1d, 2011.174.89.1e, and 2011.174.89.1f.; Linda Fuller Degelmann discusses her experiences at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. She and her former husband, Millard Fuller were inspired to start Habitat for Humanity. She describes her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and her memories of racial segregation from childhood through young adulthood when she became aware of the Freedom Rides and the Civil Rights Movement. She and Millard decided to move to Koinonia Farm in 1968, where they worked on cooperative industries, helped to establish a child development center, and built homes, which provided the seeds for Habitat for Humanity. She goes on to describe the growth of Habitat for Humanity in the United States and internationally, and she explains the religious principles of the organization as well as linking it to the Civil Rights Movement.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0089

Topic: African American; Activism; Agriculture; American South; Associations and institutions; Children; Civil Rights; Humanitarianism; Labor; Religion; Social reform; 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: 2011.174.89.1a-f

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Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Jamila Jones Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Jones, Jamila, American, born 1944
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: The Montgomery Gospel Trio, American; Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961; Highlander Folk School, American; Harambee Singers, American, founded 1966

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 00:49:27

Type: video recordings; oral histories

Place collected: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Date: April 27, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.9.1a, 2011.174.9.1b, 2011.174.9.1c, and 2011.174.9.1d.; Jamila Jones recalls participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a child and forming a singing group at age 11, the Montgomery Gospel Trio, to raise money for the civil rights movement. She recalls helping the Freedom Riders, visiting the Highlander Folk Center, writing a new verse of the song "We Shall Overcome", and founding the Harambee Singers.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0009

Topic: African American; American South; Civil Rights; Singers (Musicians); Social reform; United States--History--1953-1961; 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: 2011.174.9.1a-d

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Spirit of Youth

16mm motion picture film of Spirit of Youth

Directed by: Fraser, Harry L., American, 1889 - 1974
Written by: Hoerl, Arthur, American, 1891 - 1968
Subject of: Louis, Joe, American, 1914 - 1981; Harris, Edna Mae, American, 1910 - 1997; Moreland, Mantan, American, 1902 - 1973

Medium: 16mm Film (a): acetate film;; 16mm Film (b): acetate film;
Dimensions: Duration: 65 Minutes; Length (Film Reel 1): 1300 Feet; Length (Film Reel 2): 1100 Feet

Type: motion pictures (information artifacts)

Place filmed: Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America; New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1938

Caption: "Spirit of You" is a dramatic film based on the life of American heavyweight boxer Joe Louis. The lead character, Joe Thomas, is played by Joe Louis himself.
Description: 2015.167.19.1ab: 16mm black and white films.; Jefferson Thomas, a black foundry worker, is seriously injured when a heavy castor falls on his legs. No longer able to support his family, Jefferson's young son, Joe, decides to leave school and take a job. Many years later, Joe, now grown, gives his family all his savings and leaves Birmingham to make something of himself. Joe hitchhikes to Detroit, where he gets a job as a dishwasher and meets Creighton "Crickie" Fitzgibbons. When Crickie and Joe lose their jobs, they find work at a storage and shipping company, but are soon fired from the job when a foreman hits Crickie and Joe knocks him out with one punch. Impressed with his fighting abilities, Crickie encourages Joe to enter the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, and he is soon billed in the newspapers as the 'Dark Destroyer'. After winning the finals, manager Frankie Walburn offers to handle him as a professional. Joe accepts after consulting with his mother Nora, who now lives in the city, and who tells him to be honest and fair. As Joe wins bouts, Flora Bailey, a nightclub singer at the Bluebird Cafe´, who is in cahoots with gambler Duke Emblin, takes an interest in him. Their involvement worries Frankie, whose concern that he is ignoring his training antagonizes Joe. When Mary and Joe's sister Eleanor, visit Flora, they implore her to help get Joe back on track, but because Duke is now betting against Joe, Flora encourages his nightlife and drinking. Joe is knocked out in a match, and as he prepares for the heavyweight championship bout against Jack Stanley, he confesses to Flora that he loves Mary. When Flora sees that he does not have his heart in the fight, she brings Mary, now a schoolteacher, to the ring, and her presence spurs Joe to defeat Stanley in a knockout. Afterwards, he and Mary are guests of honor at a banquet at which Flora sings"; Source: AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Accessed on August 12, 2016 (http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=2226); Consists of: 16mm Flim (a).

Topic: African American; Boxing; Families; Race films

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Randall and Sam Nieman

Object number: 2015.167.19.1ab

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Collection title: Nieman Film Collection
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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Swing!

16mm motion picture film of Swing!

Directed by: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
Written by: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
Subject of: Green, Cora, American
Produced by: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951

Medium: 16mm Film (a): acetate film;; 16mm Film (b): acetate film;
Dimensions: Duration: 65 Minutes; Length (Film Reel 1): 1100 Feet; Length (Film Reel 2): 1400 Feet

Type: motion pictures (information artifacts)

Place depicted: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Harlem, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place filmed: New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1938

Caption: Preparing for the premiere of his Broadway show, an aspiring producer experiences a number of setbacks due to his leading star.
Description: 2015.167.20.1ab: 16mm black and white films.; As Amanda "Mandy" Jenkins wakes up to go to work as a cook for the white Hewitt family in Birmingham, Alabama, her husband Cornell returns home from a night of gambling. When Ethel and Liza, Mandy's friends, learn that Cornell is having an affair with Eloise Jackson, the wife of Lem, they agree that wives should stick together when men two-time them. Cornell takes Mandy's money to pay for his entertainment and diverts suspicion by telling his wife that he is an automobile salesman. Liza, however, reveals the truth about Cornell when she informs Mandy that her husband is being driven around in Eloise's car. Mandy goes to a nightclub looking for her husband, and when she finds him dancing with Eloise, a fight ensues. Months later, Eloise is living in Harlem, where she is singing under the assumed name Cora Smith. Although Eloise works for producer Ted Gregory, she pushes him around and intimidates him. When Lena Powell, Gregory's secretary, suggests to her boss that her old friend, Mandy, be hired as the wardrobe mistress, he consents to it. After punching Eloise when she is drunk, Lem delves into New York's underworld, where he soon learns that he can go on relief and be paid for not working. Three days before the show's opening, Eloise becomes intoxicated and breaks her leg, and Gregory replaces her with Mandy. Mandy, who has seen Cornell penniless, has a change of heart and takes her husband back. As Cornell soaks Mandy's tired feet, he realizes that he must stray no more. When the show finally opens, it's a huge success.; Source: AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Accessed on August 12, 2016.

Topic: African American; American South; Musicians; Nightlife; Race films; Violence

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Randall and Sam Nieman

Object number: 2015.167.20.1ab

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Collection title: Nieman Film Collection
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

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