- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Baker Anderson, Cynthia, American
- Anderson, Fletcher, American, born 1938
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Ku Klux Klan, 3rd, American, founded 1946
- Deacons for Defense and Justice, American, founded 1964
- Crown Zellerbach Corporation, American, founded 1928
- Date
- May 27, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 1 hr., 22 min., 9 sec.
- Total: 136.92 GB
- Description
- The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.16.1a, 2011.174.16.1b, 2011.174.16.1c, and 2011.174.16.1d.
- Cynthia and Fletcher Anderson remember the segregation and job discrimination they faced in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their decision to join the civil rights movement. Fletcher recalls working many different jobs at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill, the harassment of the police and Ku Klux Klan, and joining the Deacons of Defense and Justice. They discuss their job discrimination lawsuits, their friends involved in the civil rights movement, and the current state of race relations in Bogalusa.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0016
- Place collected
- Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Moving Images
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Labor
- Law
- Race relations
- Segregation
- 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
- 2011.174.16.1a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




