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Kay Tillow Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Tillow, Kay, American
- Interviewed by
- Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
- Subject of
- University of Illinois, American, founded 1867
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Service Employees International Union, American, founded 1921
- Coalition of Labor Union Women, American, founded 1974
- Date
- August 14, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:12:48
- Description
- The oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.99.1a, 2011.174.99.1b, 2011.174.99.1c, 2011.174.99.1d, and 2011.174.99.1e.
- Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She remembers attending the trials of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers in Cairo, Illinois, and traveling to Ghana in 1962. When she returned to the United States in 1963 she participated in sit-ins in Atlanta, Georgia, and demonstrations in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She discusses her work with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1199, a hospital workers' union, and organizing victories in Pennsylvania. Tillow also discusses her role in the Coalition of Labor Union Women and her current work on health care reform.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0099
- Place collected
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- Africa
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- Labor
- Medicine
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Women
- 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
- 2011.174.99.1a-e
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress