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Film, VideoMyrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, 2010 November 17 Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work. She remembers joining the Baltimore Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), moving to California, and her work as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in West Point, Mississippi and Phillips County, Arkansas, where she worked closely with...
- Contributor: Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2010-01-01
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Film, VideoFreeman A. Hrabowski oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Baltimore, Maryland, 2011 August 14 Freeman A. Hrabowski recalls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attending the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church. He remembers being arrested for marching in the Birmingham Children's Crusade in 1963, and remembers the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. He also discusses attending Hampton University and later starting the Meyerhoff Scholars Program for African American men studying math and science.
- Contributor: Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoGloria Hayes Richardson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York, 2011 July 19 Gloria Richardson recalls growing up in Cambridge, Maryland, attending Howard University, and joining Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with her daughter, Donna, after returning to Cambridge and running her father's drug store. She recalls traveling to the South with her family to assist SNCC with voter registration, organizing the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, assisting E. Franklin Frazier with research on African Americans, and marching...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Richardson, Gloria
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoPhil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oakland, California, 2011 September 01 Phil Hutchings recalls growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his parents' involvement in many civic organizations, and attending Howard University. He remembers joining the Nonviolent Action Group (a precursor to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)), protesting at the White Rice Inn in Maryland, and working with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. He discusses moving to Newark, New Jersey, to work for SNCC, Students for...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hutchings, Phil
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoMartha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Cockeysville, Maryland, 2013 March 18 Martha Prescod Norman Noonan describes her childhood in Providence, Rhode Island, and being one of the few black families in the neighborhood. Her parents urged her to attend the University of Michigan, where she joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and learned about the Civil Rights Movement in the South. She eventually made her way to Albany, Georgia, where she worked with the...
- Contributor: Noonan, Martha P. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Dittmer, John
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoCleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Denmark, South Carolina, 2013 March 21 Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Denmark, and he describes the group's activities. He discusses his first impressions of Howard University, where he joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG). He shares memories of...
- Contributor: Sellers, Cleveland - Dittmer, John - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoLuis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland, 2013 June 27 Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did with the United Farm Workers and how he ended up moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, for four years where he organized for the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union and helped to register...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Zapata, Luis - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoJohn Dudley, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Jarmon, Frances Suggs, Harold Suggs, and Samuel Dove oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland, 2013 June 28 The interviewees in this group interview were students who staged a walkout in 1951 at the all black, segregated Adkin High School in Kinston, North Carolina, to protest unequal conditions. The interviewees describe their family backgrounds, life in segregated Kinston, and Adkin High School. They remember learning that their school was unequal to the all-white school from which they were barred, and planning and...
- Contributor: Stewart, Eleanor - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Suggs, Frances L. - Suggs, Harold - Dove, Samuel - Jarmon, Charles - Dudley, John F. - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoBetty Garman Robinson oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Baltimore, Maryland, 2015 December 08 Betty Garman Robinson shares her experience in the Civil Rights Movement. She discusses her early involvement with the National Student Association (NSA) and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), before joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1963. Of her many roles, she recalls serving as a Northern Coordinator in Greenwood, Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and her later efforts that focused...
- Contributor: Bishop, John Melville - Robinson, Betty Garman - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoDorothy Zellner oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Baltimore, Maryland, 2015 December 08 Dorothy Zellner reflects on her experience as one of the early organizers in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Offering a unique perspective as a white woman in a black-led organization, she sheds light on the dynamics of race and gender in the Civil Rights Movement. Detailing the efforts of her and her then husband Bob Zellner, she discusses her involvement in organizing civil...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bishop, John Melville - Zellner, Dorothy - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoJudy Richardson oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland, 2015 December 09 Judy Richardson was born on March 10, 1944. As one of eight black students accepted into Swarthmore College in 1962, she recalls her initial involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, attending mass meetings and participating in freedom rides in the Cambridge, Maryland Movement. She discusses her decision to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), where she served as a secretary for then executive...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bishop, John Melville - Richardson, Judy - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoReginald Robinson oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 11 Reginald "Reg" Robinson shares his experience of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and how he became known as an "advance man" throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Beginning with his involvement with the student-led Civic Interest Group in Baltimore, Maryland, he discusses how his involvement with the Cambridge Movement led him to becoming a field secretary for SNCC. He recalls how Voter...
- Contributor: Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Robinson, Reginald - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoJunious Brickhouse interview
American Folklife Center event, 2017-02-22 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Oral history interview with Junious Brickhouse, founder and director of Urban Artistry Inc., originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He has remained committed to the hip hop, house dance, b-boying, popping, locking, tap, waacking, vogue, and West African dance genres and their communities of practice. These early experiences are reflected in how Brickhouse has structured Urban Artistry as an accepting, collaborative, and accessible community, and...- Contributor: Brickhouse, Junious - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2017
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personal narrativeThomas H. Aarsen Collection Lieutenant Colonel, Army, Cold War - . Army, Haiti--History--American intervention, 1994-1995 - . Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - . Army, Afghan War, 2001- - .
- Contributor: Mehta, Ketul - Shelley, Tyra - Edgewood High School - Aarsen, Thomas H.
- Date: 1988
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:46:26.0
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personal narrativeNeil William Abbott Collection Specialist Five, Army, Cold War - Missouri; Virginia; Maryland; Illinois; Germany.
- Contributor: Tali Volbergs - Va Medical Center, Prescott, Arizona - Dunsmore, William L. - Abbott, Neil William - Fine, Sally
- Date: 1956
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:34:36.0
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personal narrativeRubin Abrams Collection Chief Storekeeper, Coast Guard, World War, 1939-1945 - Maryland; Florida; Connecticut; California.
- Contributor: Natasha Edwards - Unknown - Danielle Scott - Abrams, Rubin - North Broward Preparatory Schools - Diamond, Evan
- Date: 1942
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:18:22.0
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personal narrativeJames Montgomery Acklin, III Collection Colonel, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - .
- Contributor: Frederick County Veterans History Project - Hubbard, J.H. - Pritchard, William S. - Acklin III, James Montgomery
- Date: 1962
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 01:04:19.0
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personal narrativeAnn Collins Adair Collection Major, Army Nurse Corps, Operation Joint Endeavor, 1995-1996 - Bosnia.
- Contributor: Stars Accelerated High School, Granbury Isd - Naylor, Rhonda - Adair, Ann Collins
- Date: 1989
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 01:02:02.0
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personal narrativeHuey Nelson Adams Collection E-4, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Fort Dix, New Jersey; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Vietnam; Fort Lewis, Washington.
- Contributor: Adams, Huey Nelson - Brett Huston - Dunn, Laura - Va Medical Center, Washington, DC - Hussey-Sloniker, Katherine
- Date: 1970
- Resource: Photo Album - 12 pages
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personal narrativeAlvin H. Adelman Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - .
- Contributor: Jolley, Laura R. - Adelman, Alvin H. - Missouri Veterans History Project - Keyser, Nancy
- Date: 1943
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 01:28:16.0
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personal narrativeEmory Homer Adkins Collection Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - .
- Contributor: Briggs, Kristen - Chloe Parsons - Adkins, Emory Homer - McKenna Linzey - Wicomico County Public Schools, Thinking and Doing (T.A.D.)
- Date: 1943
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:31:25.0
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personal narrativeGrady W. Agee Collection Corporal, Marine Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Washington, DC; North Carolina; Maryland; Guam.
- Contributor: Agee, Grady W. - Witt, Gary - Lausanne Collegiate School - Sharfman, Nate
- Date: 1941
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:51:02.0
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personal narrativeTony Agrusa Collection Army, Cold War - Fort Knox, Kentucky; Maryland; Germany; Fort Lewis, Washington; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Carson, Colorado; Honduras. Chief Warrant Officer 3, Army, Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Saudi Arabia; Iraq; Fort Lewis, Washington.
- Contributor: Agrusa, Tony - Hoffer, Roger M. - American Red Cross, Mile High Chapter - Yaphe, Kenneth L.
- Date: 1968
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personal narrativeArnold Ebon Aiken Collection Chief Motor Machinist's Mate, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Boston, Massachusetts; Maryland; Norfolk, Virginia; Bay City, Michigan; Philippines.
- Contributor: Aiken, Arnold Ebon - National Veterans History Archival Institute (Nvhai) - Thomas, Marcia - Milidonis, Dave
- Date: 1942
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 01:24:09.0
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personal narrativeAdewale Davon Ajayi Collection Staff Sergeant, Marine Corps, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Parris Island, South Carolina; Ramadi, Iraq. Staff Sergeant, Marine Corps, Afghan War, 2001- - Afghanistan.
- Contributor: Swain, Jonathan A. - St. Mary's College - Ajayi, Adewale Davon
- Date: 2004