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

digital media - born digital

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

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