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Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Carawan, Candie, American, born 1939
- Carawan, Guy Hughes, American, 1927 - 2015
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Fisk University, American, founded 1866
- Highlander Folk School, American
- Date
- September 19, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:54:11
- Description
- The oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.52.1a, 2011.174.52.1b, 2011.174.52.1c, 2011.174.52.1d, and 2011.174.52.1e.
- Candie Carawan recalls attending Fisk University as an exchange student and meeting civil rights activists in Nashville, Tennessee. She discusses meeting Guy Carawan at the Highlander Folk School, the importance of music to the civil rights movement, and Guy's work to record singers involved with the movement. The two perform several songs, including "Tree of Life," "Eyes on the Prize," and "We Shall Overcome."
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0052
- Place collected
- New Market, Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, 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
- American South
- Civil rights
- Education
- Folk (Music)
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- 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
- 2011.174.52.1a-e
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress