- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Bruce, Walter, American, 1928 - 2014
- Interviewed by
- Dittmer, John Ph. D., American, born 1939
- Subject of
- Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, American, founded 1964
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, American, founded 1964
- Date
- March 11, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 1 hr., 24 min., 55 sec.
- Total: 139.57 GB
- Description
- The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.71.1a, 2011.174.71.1b, 2011.174.71.1c, 2011.174.71.1d, 2011.174.71.1e, 2011.174.71.1f, 2011.174.71.1g, 2011.174.71.1h, and 2011.174.71.1i.
- Walter Bruce shares memories of his childhood in Durant, Mississippi, where his family sharecropped. As a young man he became a carpenter and also a gospel singer. He describes his early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, including his participation in Mississippi Freedom Summer. Bruce was involved in community and political organizing throughout the 1960s, from helping to start health clinics and participating in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to his involvement in sit-ins and marches. Bruce also discusses the process of choosing and running black candidates for political office in the 1960s.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0071
- Place collected
- Durant, Holmes County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Mississippi Freedom Summer
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- Agriculture
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Gospel (Music)
- Labor
- Medicine
- Politics
- Resistance
- Singers (Musicians)
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- U.S. 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
- 2011.174.71.1a-i
- 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.