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Edward Theodore Taylor Oral History Interview
- Created by
- National Museum of African American History and Culture, American, founded 2003
- Recorded by
- Patrick Telepictures, Inc., American
- Interview of
- Taylor, Edward Theodore, American, 1932 - 2020
- Interviewed by
- Navies, Kelly Elaine, American
- Subject of
- United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775
- Date
- July 18, 2016
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration (2016.129.6.1a): 95.9 minutes
- Duration (2016.129.6.2a): 92.9 minutes
- Description
- The oral history consists of 2016.129.6.1a and 2016.129.6.2a: two versions (unedited, and edited) of a single digital video recording.
- 152.84613 GB
- Edward Taylor was interviewed as part of the NMAAHC Donor Oral History Collection. Mr. Taylor donated a photograph of himself that was taken in Korea during the Korean War to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He was 19 years old at the time the photograph was taken.
- Edward Taylor vividly recounts his childhood in the segregated world of Maryland’s eastern shore, including a particularly tragic incident involving racial violence. He continues on to tell the story of his experience as a combat infantryman during the Korean War, after the US military had been recently integrated. This story includes the tale of how he earned two Purple Hearts. Later, after he returns to the United States, he recounts a racial incident that lead him to discard his Purple Hearts in the Chesapeake Bay. The last part of the interview is devoted to his role as a pioneering educator in the desegregation of the public schools in Wicomico County, Maryland.
- Place collected
- Randallstown, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Wicomico County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- The Collection Donor Oral History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Civil rights
- Communities
- Education
- Korean War, 1950-1953
- Military
- Museums
- Race discrimination
- Segregation
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2016.129.6.1a-.2a
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
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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
- Date
- March 18, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:32:37
- 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
- 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
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Black Power (Black Pride)
- Albany Movement
- Mississippi Freedom Summer
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- 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
- 2011.174.80.1a-g
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress