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
- 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
- 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
- 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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