- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer, American, born 1941
- Interviewed by
- Dittmer, John Ph. D., American, born 1939
- Subject of
- Duke University, American, founded 1838
- Howard University Nonviolent Action Group, American, founded 1960s
- Mississippi State Penitentiary, American, founded 1901
- Tougaloo College, American, founded 1869
- Date
- March 17, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 2 hr., 6 min., 4 sec.
- Total: 213.55 GB
- Description
- The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.79.1a, 2011.174.79.1b, 2011.174.79.1c, 2011.174.79.1d, 2011.174.79.1e, 2011.174.79.1f, 2011.174.79.1g, and 2011.174.79.1h.
- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland shares how, as a child in Arlington, Virginia, her awareness of racial disparities grew. As a student at Duke University, she began participating in the sit-in movement. She soon moved to Washington, D.C. and joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), which led her to participate in the Freedom Rides of 1961. She describes in detail serving time at Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) with other civil rights activists. Mulholland also discusses attending Tougaloo College and her involvement in the Jackson sit-in movement.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0079
- Place collected
- Arlington, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Moving Images
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Freedom Riders
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Prisons
- Race relations
- Resistance
- Social reform
- 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
- 2011.174.79.1a-h
- 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.