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Myrtle Gonza Glascoe Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Gonza Glascoe, Myrtle, American, 1936 - 2019
- Interviewed by
- Reece, Dwandalyn R., American
- Subject of
- Howard University, American, founded 1867
- University of Pennsylvania, American, founded 1740
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Newsome Jackson, Gertrude, American, born 1923
- Himmelbaum, Howard, American
- Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942
- Avery Research Center, American, founded 1985
- Date
- November 17, 2010
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:33:35
- Description
- The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.3.1a and 2011.174.3.1b.
- Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work. She remembers joining the Baltimore Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), moving to California, and her work as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in West Point, Mississippi and Phillips County, Arkansas, where she worked closely with Howard Himmelbaum and Gertrude Jackson. She also discusses her work as the director of the Avery Research Center and her opinions on the education of African Americans.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0003
- Place collected
- Capitol Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- West Point, Clay County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Phillips County, Arkansas, 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
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- 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
- 2011.174.3.1ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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Gertrude Newsome Jackson Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Newsome Jackson, Gertrude, American, born 1923
- Interviewed by
- Paysour, LaFleur
- Subject of
- Gonza Glascoe, Myrtle, American, 1936 - 2019
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Himmelbaum, Howard, American
- Head Start Program, American, founded 1965
- Date
- November 22, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:57:01
- Description
- The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.4.1a and 2011.174.4.1b.
- Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in rural Arkansas. She discusses assisting Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers Howard Himmelbaum and Myrtle Glascoe, working for Head Start, and starting a community center. Jackson's grandson is also interviewed. He joins her towards the end of file #2.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0004
- Place collected
- Marvell, Phillips County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Madison, St. Clair County, Illinois, 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
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- Education
- Segregation
- 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
- 2011.174.4.1ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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Carrie M. Young Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Young, Carrie M., American, born 1948
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Gonza Glascoe, Myrtle, American, 1936 - 2019
- Hansen, Bill, American, born 1939
- Himmelbaum, Howard, American
- Black United Youth, American
- Date
- September 26, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 02:05:25
- Description
- The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.56.1a, 2011.174.56.1b, 2011.174.56.1c, 2011.174.56.1d, 2011.174.56.1e, 2011.174.56.1f, 2011.174.56.1g, 2011.174.56.1h, and 2011.174.56.1i.
- Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including Myrtle Glascoe, Bill Hansen, and Howard Himmelbaum. She remembers registering voters, gathering signatures to overturn a poll tax, and protesting at the Arkansas state capitol. She discusses her marriage to Howard Himmelbaum, suing her employer for discrimination, and working with the group Black United Youth in Little Rock, Arkansas.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0056
- Place collected
- Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- West Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas, 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
- Agriculture
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Justice
- Labor
- Politics (Practical)
- Race discrimination
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Youth
- 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
- 2011.174.56.1a-i
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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Violin played by the enslaved man Jesse Burke
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Burke, Jesse, American, 1834 - 1909
- Date
- 1850-1860
- On ViewConcourse 3, C3 053
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Medium
- Violin: wood, steel, and mother of pearl;
- Bow: wood, horsehair, metal, and mother of pearl;
- Case: wood, metal, and wool cotton blend flannel
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (Violin): 3 × 24 × 8 1/4 in. (7.6 × 61 × 21 cm)
- H x W x D (Bow): 1 1/16 × 29 1/4 × 9/16 in. (2.7 × 74.3 × 1.4 cm)
- H x W x D (Case (closed)): 4 1/4 × 30 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (10.8 × 78.1 × 24.1 cm)
- Caption
- This violin was originally owned by a slaveholder named Elijah Burke, who owned the Mount Pleasant Plantation in Phillips County, Arkansas. Before the slaveholder died in 1860, he gave the violin to an enslaved man on his plantation, Mr. Jesse Burke (b. 1834 – d. 1909). According to the family oral history, during slavery Jesse was charged with playing the violin for entertainment for the slaveholder and his guests.
- Description
- A violin (.1a) with a bow (.1b) stored in a wooden case (.2), all owned and played by Jesse Burke, who used the violin during and after enslavement.
- The violin (.1a) has a reddish-brown stained wooden body, neck, peg box, and scroll. The pegs, fingerboard, and tailpiece are made of wood painted black. A small piece of mother of pearl is attached at the center top of each peg. The strings are made from steel. A paper label is adhered to the interior back of the violin body, which can be seen through the sound holes. Printed on the label in black text are the words: "Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1726".
- The bow (.1b) has a rod made from a dark-stained wood with a metal tension screw. The frog is made from wood painted black and inlaid with mother of pearl and a metal ferrule. The tip is edged with a panel of an ivory imitation material. The bow hair is made from horsehair, though the horsehair is broken with several strands still attached and extending from the tip in varying lengths.
- The wooden case (.2) is painted black and has a hinged lid that opens with two (2) metal hinges. On the opening side are two (2) metal tension clasps with one (1) locking hinge at the center. There is a metal plate with a keyhole to the right of the center hinged lock. A metal handle is attached at either side of the keyhole plate. The interior of the bottom and the lid is lined with a red wool and cotton blend flannel. There are two flannel-covered wooden pieces at the wide side of the case that correspond to the center bouts on the body of the instrument and secure it in place inside the case. A loop of the flannel is sewn near the thin side of the lid, presumably to hold the bow.
- Place used
- Lexa, Phillips County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Musical Instruments
- Topic
- Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Men
- Music
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Shirley Burke, Great-Granddaughter, on Behalf of Jesse Burke's Descendants
- Object number
- 2014.232.1ab-.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions