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Robert Bagner Hayling, D.D Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Hayling, Robert Bagner D.D., American, 1929 - 2015
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: United States Air Force, American, founded 1947; Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, American, founded 1884; NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936; Ku Klux Klan, 3rd, American, founded 1946; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909; Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:54:48

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

Place collected: Saint Augustine, Saint Johns, Florida, United States, North and Central America; Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Cocoa, Brevard County, Florida, United States, North and Central America

Date: September 14, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.48.1a, 2011.174.48.1b, 2011.174.48.1c, 2011.174.48.1d, 2011.174.48.1e, and 2011.174.48.1f.; Robert Hayling, D.D recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental practice in St. Augustine, Florida, leading the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and the exclusion of African Americans from St. Augustine's 400th anniversary celebration, and being attacked by the Ku Klux Klan. He also discusses resigning from the NAACP, the support of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for local protests, and his move to Cocoa, Florida.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0048

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil rights; Hate crimes; Medicine; Military; Race discrimination; Social reform; 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: 2011.174.48.1a-f

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

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Wrist watch worn by Harriette Moore

Manufactured by: Unidentified
Worn by: Moore, Harriette Vyda Simms, American, 1902 - 1952

Medium: metal
Dimensions: H x W (Case): 1 1/8 x 1 x 1/4 in. (2.9 x 2.5 x 0.6 cm); Diameter (Band): 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)

Type: wrist watches

Place collected: New Carrollton, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
Place used: Mims, Brevard County, Florida, United States, North and Central America

Date: early to mid 20th century

Description: Woman’s wrist watch worn by Harriette Vyda Sims Moore. The watch has a gold-colored face with black hour and minute hands and black numerals, some of which are partially worn away. Under the numeral six is the word "Swiss." The watch is housed in an eight sided watch case, also of a gold colored metal. Both the face and the case have swirling floral designs engraved on them. The two lugs on either side that attach the strap to the case are made of a dark brassy colored metal. They attach to two silver colored rings that make up the ends of the watch band. The band itself is a silver colored metal and has no clasp as it is a stretch band. It is possibly not contemporary to the watch itself. The back of the watch case has a decorative floral band around the edge. The center is plain, with numerous scratches. The crystal (glass) is missing.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Clothing and dress; Education; Families; Hate crimes; Segregation; Violence; Women

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Juanita Evangeline Moore, daughter; "Skip" Pagan, grandson; and Darren Pagan, great-grandson

Object number: 2013.157.1

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Adornment; Tools and Equipment-Personal use
Exhibition: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Pocket watch owned by Harry T. Moore

Manufactured by: Illinois Watch Company, American, founded 1879
Owned by: Moore, Harry Tyson, American, 1905 - 1951

Medium: metal and glass
Dimensions: H x W: 2 5/16 x 1 11/16 x 5/16 in. (5.9 x 4.3 x 0.8 cm)

Type: pocket watches

Place collected: New Carrollton, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
Place used: Mims, Brevard County, Florida, United States, North and Central America

Date: ca. 1920s

Description: Pocket watch by Illinois Watch Company used by Harry Tyson Moore, Sterling model. It features a circular white face with black hands and numerals. Under the twelve it has the company and model name "ILLINOIS/ STERLING." There is a second smaller face for marking the seconds at the bottom of the main face. The casing is a plain brass colored metal with a loop and ridged crown at top. The back has a faint cross hatching pattern with a small heraldic crest in the center.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Families; Hate crimes; Men; Resistance; Segregation; Violence

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Juanita Evangeline Moore, daughter; "Skip" Pagan, grandson; and Darren Pagan, great-grandson

Object number: 2013.157.2

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Adornment; Tools and Equipment-Personal use
Exhibition: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Wallet belonging to Harry T. Moore

Manufactured by: Unidentified
Owned by: Moore, Harry Tyson, American, 1905 - 1951

Medium: pigskin
Dimensions: H x W: 4 5/16 x 3 1/4 x 3/8 in. (11 x 8.3 x 1 cm)

Place collected: New Carrollton, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
Place used: Mims, Brevard County, Florida, United States, North and Central America

Date: early to mid 20th century

Description: Personalized pigskin wallet embossed with Harry T. Moore. This is a brown leather fold over wallet. Inside, it has two pockets in front and two interior pockets. There is also a bill fold running the length of the wallet. The bill fold and the interior pockets are lined with darker leather. One the right side, embossed in gold letters, is the name "HARRY T MOORE." Below in smaller letters, also gold, is embossed "Genuine Pigskin." The wallet fold is extremely worn and the surface of the leather is scarred and pitted.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Families; Hate crimes; Men; Resistance; Segregation; Violence

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Juanita Evangeline Moore, daughter; "Skip" Pagan, grandson; and Darren Pagan, great-grandson

Object number: 2013.157.3

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Exhibition: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Locket with photographs of Harriette and Harry T. Moore

Manufactured by: Unidentified
Subject of: Moore, Harriette Vyda Simms, American, 1902 - 1952; Moore, Harry Tyson, American, 1905 - 1951
Owned by: Moore, Harriette Vyda Simms, American, 1902 - 1952

Medium: metal, silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: Diameter (closed): 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); H x W (open): 2 7/16 x 1 3/8 in. (6.2 x 3.5 cm)

Type: lockets; gelatin silver prints

Place collected: New Carrollton, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
Place used: Mims, Brevard County, Florida, United States, North and Central America

Date: early to mid 20th century

Description: Locket belonging to Harriette Vyda Simms Moore with two black and white photographs inside of herself and her husband Harry Tyson Moore. This circular locket opens into two halves, each half with a small photograph. The outside of the locket is a gold colored metal, with a floral design engraved on the front half. The back half is plain. There is a small metal loop soldered to the top to attach a suspension chain. There is another small loop hanging from it. On the inside are two photographs, each framed by a copper colored ring set into the metal. The two photographs show each individual from the shoulders up. Harry Moore is wearing a suit with a high collar; Harriette Moore is wearing a light colored blouse with a fold over collar. The former gazes directly at the viewer, the latter is gazing away to the viewer's right. There are tree branches behind her and shrubs in the background behind him.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Clothing and dress; Resistance; Segregation; Violence; Women

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Juanita Evangeline Moore, daughter; "Skip" Pagan, grandson; and Darren Pagan, great-grandson

Object number: 2013.157.4

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Adornment
Exhibition: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Written by: Hurston, Zora Neale, American, 1891 - 1960
Published by: J. B. Lippincott & Co., American, 1836 - 1978

Medium: ink on paper with cloth, cardboard, metallic paper and acetate film
Dimensions: H x W x D (Closed): 8 1/4 × 5 5/8 × 1 1/2 in. (21 × 14.3 × 3.8 cm)

Type: hardcover books

Place printed: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Place made: Eau Gallie, Brevard County, Florida, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Eatonville, Orange County, Florida, United States, North and Central America; Florida, United States, The Everglades, North and Central America

Date: 1937

Description: A signed, first edition hardcover book with dust jacket and a clear, protective plastic cover. The book takes place in early twentieth century Florida. The book recounts the life story of the protagonist, Janie Crawford, a young woman born during the Reconstructionist Era. The dust jacket is gold with central, black and white illustration featuring a male God-like figure in against a stormy sky. The figure is throwing down gold-colored lightening and thunderbolts to the flooded land below. In the lower left corner of the image is a small grouping of trees blowing in the storm. Along the bottom of the illustration, roofs of structures can be seen just above the water. The image is bordered in black. Above and below the illustration on the front cover is text in black. At the top [THEIR EYES/WERE WATCHING GOD/A NOVEL]. Along the bottom [ZORA N· HURSTON]. The black text along the top of the white, back cover of the dust jacket reads: [Some Reviews / OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S PREVIOUS BOOK / “Mules and Men”], followed by five book review blurbs. The book has an orange cloth binding. The exterior spine is embossed with black text across the top and bottom of the spine. The text at the top of the spine reads [Their eyes / were / watching / God] above a black circle with a black dot in the center and [Hurston]. The name of the publishers [Lippincott] is embossed in black lettering across the bottom of the spine. The title of the book has been embossed on the front of the book in black lettering [Their eyes were / watching God / Zora Neale Hurston] just below seven black circles with black dots in the circles centers. The inside front cover is inscribed with red ink by the author [To/Miss Ruby Mc Knight/Using stars like stair-/steps -/Zora Neale Hurston]. The book is twenty chapters and two hundred and eighty-six pages long.

Topic: African American; American South; Language; Literature; Rural life; Segregation; Women

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

Object number: 2014.315ab

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
Exhibition: Cultural Expressions
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 050

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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