Marilyn Luper Hildreth Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Hildreth, Marilyn, American, born 1947
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Luper, Clara, American, 1923 - 2011
- Created by
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:33:16
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Place collected
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Date
- May 24, 2011
- Description
- The oral history consists of three digital files: 2011.174.12.1a, 2011.174.12.1b, and 2011.174.12.1c.
- Marilyn Hildreth describes growing up in segregated Oklahoma and the leadership of her mother, Clara Luper, in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group. She recalls participating in a drug store sit-in as a child, and the success the group had with several restaurants in Oklahoma City. She remembers her mother's leadership in the African American community in Oklahoma, and her involvement in the 1968 sanitation workers' strike.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0012
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- Labor
- Social reform
- United States--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
- 2011.174.12.1abc
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Hildreth, Marilyn, American, born 1947
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Luper, Clara, American, 1923 - 2011
- Created by
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:33:16
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Place collected
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Date
- May 24, 2011
- Description
- The oral history consists of three digital files: 2011.174.12.1a, 2011.174.12.1b, and 2011.174.12.1c.
- Marilyn Hildreth describes growing up in segregated Oklahoma and the leadership of her mother, Clara Luper, in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group. She recalls participating in a drug store sit-in as a child, and the success the group had with several restaurants in Oklahoma City. She remembers her mother's leadership in the African American community in Oklahoma, and her involvement in the 1968 sanitation workers' strike.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0012
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- Labor
- Social reform
- United States--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
- 2011.174.12.1abc
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
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