Robert Bagner Hayling, D.D Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Hayling, Robert Bagner D.D., American, 1929 - 2015
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- United States Air Force, American, founded 1947
- Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, American, founded 1884
- NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936
- Ku Klux Klan, 3rd, American, founded 1946
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Date
- September 14, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 1 hr., 54 min., 48 sec.
- Total: 189.74 GB
- Description
- The oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.48.1a, 2011.174.48.1b, 2011.174.48.1c, 2011.174.48.1d, 2011.174.48.1e, and 2011.174.48.1f.
- Robert Hayling, D.D recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental practice in St. Augustine, Florida, leading the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and the exclusion of African Americans from St. Augustine's 400th anniversary celebration, and being attacked by the Ku Klux Klan. He also discusses resigning from the NAACP, the support of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for local protests, and his move to Cocoa, Florida.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0048
- Place collected
- Saint Augustine, Saint Johns, Florida, United States, North and Central America
- Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Cocoa, Brevard County, Florida, 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
- Hate crimes
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Medicine
- Military
- Race discrimination
- Social reform
- White supremacy movements
- World War II
- 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
- 2011.174.48.1a-f
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress