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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
- Moore, William Lewis, American, 1927 - 1963
- Date
- May 31, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:31:05
- 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
- 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
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Albany Movement
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Law
- Politics
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- U.S. 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
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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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, American, 1939 - 1965
- Date
- April 25, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:32:09
- 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
- 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
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Selma to Montgomery Marches
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Justice
- Military
- Politics
- Prisons
- Religion
- Segregation
- Slavery
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- Tuskegee Airmen
- 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
- 2011.174.7.1a-j
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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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, 1921 - 2020
- 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
- Date
- June 6, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:02:49
- 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
- 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
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Selma to Montgomery Marches
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Race relations
- Religion
- Social reform
- U.S. 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
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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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
- Date
- September 16, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 02:03:09
- 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
- 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
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Black Power (Black Pride)
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1945-1953
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- U.S. 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
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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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, American, founded 1924
- Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961
- Mississippi State Penitentiary, American, founded 1901
- Children's Crusade, American, founded 1963
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
- Date
- March 29, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 4:06:19
- 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
- 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
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Freedom Riders
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Prisons
- Religion
- 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
- 2011.174.6.1a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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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
- Date
- April 27, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:49:27
- 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
- Place collected
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Freedom Riders
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- American South
- Civil rights
- Singers (Musicians)
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- 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
- 2011.174.9.1a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress