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Rosie Head Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Head, Rosie M., American
- Interviewed by
- Dittmer, John Ph. D., American, born 1939
- Subject of
- Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, American, founded 1964
- Child Development Group of Mississippi, American, founded 1965
- Date
- March 13, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:18:59
- Description
- The oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.74.1a, 2011.174.74.1b, 2011.174.74.1c, 2011.174.74.1d, 2011.174.74.1e, 2011.174.74.1f, and 2011.174.74.1g.
- Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and worked on a plantation. She discusses how her parents faced racial discrimination in their work and how they were cheated by the plantation owner and then blacklisted. In 1964, Head joined the Civil Rights Movement in Tchula, Mississippi, where her family had relocated. Head recounts the various ways she was involved in the movement: registering voters, working with Freedom Summer volunteers, helping to establish the Child Development Group of Mississippi, and campaigning for black candidates for political office.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0074
- Place collected
- Tchula, Holmes County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Mississippi Freedom Summer
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- Labor
- Politics
- Race discrimination
- 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
- 2011.174.74.1a-g
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims
- Written by
- B. C. Franklin, American, 1879 - 1960
- Date
- August 22, 1931
- Medium
- ink on paper with metal
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14 × 9 in. (35.6 × 22.9 cm)
- Description
- A manuscript titled “The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims” by B. C. Franklin. The unpublished manuscript consists of ten pages written in black type on yellowed paper. It was written ten years after the Tulsa Riots on August 22, 1931 and recounts the events of the Tulsa Riot as witnessed by the author. The pages contain an account of Franklin witnessing three men being killed by the mob. The manuscript is signed by B.C. Franklin on the last page.
- Place depicted
- Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Documents and Published Materials
- Type
- manuscripts
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
- Object number
- 2015.176.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
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Photograph of B.C. Franklin, I.H. Spears, and Effie Thompson
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- B. C. Franklin, American, 1879 - 1960
- Spears, I. H., American
- Thompson, Effie
- Date
- June 6, 1921
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- Description
- A black and white photograph of B.C. Franklin (right) and I. H. Spears (left), with Secretary Effie Thompson (center), in their temporary tent office after the Tulsa Race Riot, 1921. Franklin and Spears sit on either end of a desk facing the camera. They are both holding books in their hands and looking down towards the books. Thompson stands in the center background of the photograph behind the desk. The date is handwritten just below the image on the front of the photograph. There is also a handwritten inscription on the back that identifies the subject and date of the photograph.
- Place depicted
- Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
- Object number
- 2015.176.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
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Desk from the Dreamland Theater in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Williams Dreamland Theater, American, founded 1906
- Date
- early 20th century
- On ViewCommunity/Third Floor, 3 051
- Exhibition
- Power of Place
- Medium
- wood, metal, varnish
- Dimensions
- 32 x 33 x 17 1/4 in. (81.3 x 83.8 x 43.8 cm)
- Description
- Wooden writing desk with four fluted legs. At the front, below the mid-section, on either side are long rectangles of wood with angled triangles extending out from center. The desk has four cubby holes below a shelf on the back of the writing surface. There is a pair of cubbies on either side of the desk’s writing surface as well. The writing surface slides in and out of mid-section with two hand holds for easy access on either side of the top near the front. The front portion of the writing top is slightly curved. The desk has a large rectangular drawer with scalloped lower edges on the front. The front of the drawer has two pairs of carved out scallops near the center. The drawer slides in and out of lower portion of the desk top.
- Place collected
- Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor
- Type
- writing desks
- Topic
- Business
- Race discrimination
- U.S. History, 1919-1933
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
- Object number
- 2013.119
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public Domain
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Rick Tuttle, Ph. D. Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Tuttle, Rick Ph. D., American, born 1940
- Interviewed by
- Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
- Subject of
- Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961
- Wesleyan University, American, founded 1831
- University of California, Los Angeles, American, founded 1919
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Ku Klux Klan, 3rd, American, founded 1946
- Chatham County Crusade for Voters, American, c. 1960
- Date
- April 11, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 02:04:49
- Description
- The oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.78.1a, 2011.174.78.1b, 2011.174.78.1c, 2011.174.78.1d, 2011.174.78.1e, and 2011.174.78.1f.
- Rick Tuttle, Ph. D. describes his family background and when he first became aware of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides when he was a student at Wesleyan University. As a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he was recruited to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1963 and went to Greenwood, Mississippi, to work on voter registration drives. He also briefly spied on white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan meetings. After being driven out of Mississippi by threats, he joined the Chatham County Crusade for Voters in Savannah, Georgia. Tuttle describes being arrested in Savannah for disturbing the peace and the subsequent trial. Tuttle discusses the work he did after leaving the Movement: as the comptroller in Los Angeles he helped to bring an end to segregation at private clubs and participated in the anti-apartheid movement.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0078
- Place collected
- Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Anti-apartheid movements
- Freedom Riders
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- American West
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- Resistance
- Segregation
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- White supremacy movements
- 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
- 2011.174.78.1a-f
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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Photographic print of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Date
- before 1921
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (7 x 17.1 cm)
- Description
- A black and white photograph of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Depicted are store fronts, telephone wires, and a sign for a dentist's office. People are visible on the sidewalk. There is paper pasted to the back of the photograph with black type that reads [Greenwood--We called it the "Stem". Nostalgic memories remain.]
- Place depicted
- Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
- Object number
- 2011.60.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
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Panaromic photograph of workers outside the Grendel Textile Mill
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- 1923-1924
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 7 1/2 x 25 in. (19.1 x 63.5 cm)
- Description
- A panoramic photograph of nearly a hundred men, many of them African American, posing for a formal photograph in front of the Grendel Textile Mill in Greenwood, South Carolina.
- Place depicted
- Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Labor
- Men
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Nancy Adams and Daisy Holsonback
- Object number
- 2012.92
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
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Photograph of the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- before 1921
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (7 x 11.4 cm)
- Description
- A black and white photograph of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Depicted are store fronts, telephone wires, and a sign for a dentist's office. People are visible on the sidewalk. There are no marks on the back.
- Place depicted
- Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- photographs
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
- Object number
- 2011.60.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
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Photographic print of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- before 1921
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (7 x 11.4 cm)
- Description
- A black and white photograph of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, OK. Depicted are cars parked on a street, a horse, a carriage, people walking along shopfronts, and telephone poles. There are no marks or writing on the back.
- Place depicted
- Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
- Object number
- 2011.60.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain