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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

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 02:05:25

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

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

Date: September 26, 2011

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

Topic: African American; Activism; Agriculture; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil rights; Justice; Labor; Politics (Practical); Race discrimination; Social reform; Suffrage; United States--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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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photograph of Terrence Roberts and soldiers at Little Rock Central High School

Photograph by: Unidentified
Subject of: Roberts, Terrence, American, born 1941; Little Rock Central High School, American, founded 1927

Medium: photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 3/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.8 × 25.6 cm); H x W (Image): 7 11/16 × 9 1/2 in. (19.5 × 24.1 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America

Date: September 1957

Description: A black-and-white photograph of a group of armed United States military personnel in light-colored uniforms facing a young man, Terrence Roberts, wearing a horizontal striped shirt and dark slacks. The young man has a pencil tucked behind his left ear.

Topic: African American; Civil rights; Education; Law; Military; Photography; Segregation; United States--History--1953-1961; Youth

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2011.57.10.3

Restrictions & Rights: © Getty Images/ Paul Popper/ Popperfoto . Permission required for use.

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Audrey Nell Hamilton and JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Hamilton, Audrey Nell, American; Ulmer, JoeAnn Anderson, American
Interviewed by: Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
Subject of: Hayling, Robert Bagner D.D., American, 1929 - 2015; F. W. Woolworth Company, American, 1879 - 1997; Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968; Robinson, Jackie, American, 1919 - 1972

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:06:20

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

Place collected: Saint Augustine, Saint Johns County, Florida, United States, North and Central America

Date: September 13, 2011

Description: The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.44.1a and 2011.174.44.1b.; Audrey Hamilton and JoeAnn Ulmer recall growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, and participating in sit-ins led by Robert Hayling, D.D. at Woolworth's drug store as teenagers. They recall serving a sentence in jail, attending reform school, and meeting Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jackie Robinson.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0044

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Civil rights; Prisons; Resistance; Segregation; Social reform; United States--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: 2011.174.44.1ab

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

Amos C. Brown Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Rev. Dr. Brown, Amos C., American
Interviewed by: Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
Subject of: Evers, Medgar, American, 1925 - 1963; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909; NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936; The Plain Dealer, American, founded 1842; Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961; Operation Crossroads Africa, American, founded 1958; Third Baptist Church, American, founded 1852

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:58:48

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

Place collected: San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America; Africa

Date: March 2, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.60.1a, 2011.174.60.1b, 2011.174.60.1c, 2011.174.60.1d, 2011.174.60.1e, 2011.174.60.1f, 2011.174.60.1g, and 2011.174.60.1h.; Reverend Dr. Amos Brown discusses his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi and meeting Medgar Evers, who quickly became his mentor. Brown was a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a teenager, leading the Jackson chapter and then the whole state Youth Council and traveling with Mr. Evers across the country to attend a national conference. He was asked to leave his high school for making comments to the Cleveland Plain Dealer about unequal schools for blacks, and remembers his participation in a 1961 Freedom Ride, his travel to Africa as part of Operation Crossroads Africa, and his work at Third Baptist Church on various social causes.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0060

Topic: African American; Activism; Africa; American South; Associations and institutions; Civil rights; Education; International affairs; Religion; Social reform; United States--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: 2011.174.60.1a-h

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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

Photographic slide of the Poor People's Campaign

Photograph by: Robert Houston, American, born 1935
Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968; Unidentified Man or Men; Unidentified Woman or Women
Created by: Rogers Color Laboratory Corp., American, 1964 - 1996

Medium: reversal film and cardboard
Dimensions: H x W: 1 15/16 × 1 15/16 in. (4.9 × 4.9 cm)

Type: color slides

Place depicted: National Mall, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date: May 13, 1968 - June 23, 1968

Caption: This slide is part of a collection of 35mm slides encapsulating Robert Houston's full portfolio of images related to the Poor People's Campaign and the antipoverty protest camp on the National Mall. Known as "Resurrection City," the camp lasted for six weeks in the spring of 1968.
Description: This photographic slide depicts a crowd of young men and women outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture building in Washington, DC. They stand closely together, many of them clapping their hands, some with their mouth open in song. Several of them wear SCLC badges. One young man in the center wears a green shirt and a round, white pinback button reading [WELFARE RIGHTS NOW!]. Another young man on the far right wears a brown and grey collared shirt and a pinback button reading [INDIAN RIGHTS]. There is a large white pillared portico in the background. The slide mount obverse has text that reads "processed by/ rogers color lab corp./ new york."

Topic: African American; Activism; Civil rights; Housing; Local and regional; Photography; Politics (Practical); Poverty; United States--History--1961-1969; Youth

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2015.245.39

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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