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    Annie Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Selma, Alabama, 2011 May 31 Annie Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeting in Atlanta and being stranded and threatened in Marietta, Georgia, on the way home. She discusses her involvement in the Albany Movement, her many arrests for protesting, marching with William Moore, and participating in voter...
    • Contributor: Avery, Annie Pearl - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Interview with Tyler Hautau, Naples, Italy, November 19, 2001 (part 1 of 2)
    • Contributor: Hautau, Tyler - George, Scott Edward
    • Date: 2001-11-19
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    Interview with Karl Kish, Naples, Italy, November 26, 2001 (part 1 of 3)
    • Contributor: Kish, Karl - George, Scott Edward
    • Date: 2001-11-26
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    Interview with Mersadis Maffin, Naples, Italy, November 15, 2001
    • Contributor: Maffin, Mersadis - George, Scott Edward
    • Date: 2001-11-15
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    Clarence B. Jones oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Palo Alto, California, 2013 April 15 Dr. Clarence B. Jones shares memories from his work as a legal advisor and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In particular, he describes his significant contributions to the "I Have a Dream" speech, which King delivered at the March on Washington in 1963. Jones also describes his early life living in a Philadelphia home for indigent black orphans and foster children, because...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Jones, Clarence B.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Myrtle 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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    Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Gainesville, Florida, 2011 September 14 Gwendolyn Simmons recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Spelman College. She remembers directing SNCC's voter registration and Freedom School, called the Freedom Summer Project in Laurel, Mississippi. She discusses learning about Black Nationalism in New York, the decision in SNCC to expel white members, and her work with the American Friends Service Committee's Program on Government Surveillance and...
    • Contributor: Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi, 2015 December 05 Charles McLaurin discusses his work as a Civil Rights activist in the 1950's and 60's. He begins by discussing the racism he experienced growing up and how this shaped his personal and political values. McLaurin mainly describes working with African American voter registration rights issues, SNCC, and the Freedom Riders. He describes how he became a congressional officer for a number of years in...
    • Contributor: McLaurin, Charles - Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Bobbie Sotin interview conducted by Nathan J. Moore and Donald Eugene Stacy, 2015-01-21 Bobbie Sotin discusses the rewards and challenges of working as a home care provider in Coos County, Oregon. She also talks about her union activism and the changes that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has brought to the field. She recalls her earlier jobs, her training, the challenges of temporarily filling in for other people's long-term clients, the awkwardness of receiving gifts from...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Moore, Nathan J. - Stacy, Donald Eugene - Sotin, Bobbie
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Joseph Howell and Embry Howell oral history interview conducted by David Cline in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 13 Joseph and Embry Howell recall the summer of 1966 in Southern Georgia. Recruited by Charlie Sherrod of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) they discuss the complexities they encountered from embodying a white identity, most significantly through their experience of living with a black family in the South. They emphasize how changing racial perception and power influenced a shift in SNCC's tactic of nonviolence,...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Howell, Embry - Howell, Joseph T. - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Sarah Ahmad interview conducted by Dr. Julie Pearson Little Thunder, 2021-01-15 In this interview, visual artist Sarah Ahmad discusses her exposure to art growing up in Pakistan and the importance of education for her family. She describes her experience attending the National College of Art in Lahore and how it broadened her worldview and artistic ability. She talks about art finding her after living in the United States for several years and some of the...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Little Thunder, Julie Pearson - Ahmad, Sarah
    • Date: 2021
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    Carl Brewer interview conducted by Briana M. O'Higgins, 2012-11-16 Interview with Mayor of Wichita, Carl Brewer. Before becoming Mayor, Carl Brewer worked at Boeing. He talks about his stepfather working for Boeing and then, after his military service, starting out as a sheet metal cutter for Cessna before going to work in the Boeing factory himself. He talks about working for both the commercial and military side of Boeing and rising in positions...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - O'Higgins, Briana M. - Brewer, Carl
    • Date: 2012-01-01
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    Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama, 2011 June 01 Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders in 1961, and spending a year in a segregated sanitarium when she had tuberculosis. She recounts organizing Tuskegee students for the Selma to Montgomery March, occupying the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and registering voters in Lowndes...
    • Contributor: Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Harry A. Blackmun oral history interview. Session 4 Harry Blackmun describes his time as a Harvard Law School student and his early years working in the courts. He shares that working two jobs during the majority of his time in law school was the only way he could afford to continue. After the graduated, he returned to Minnesota and was soon offered a clerkship for Judge Sanborn of the 8th Circuit Court....
    • Contributor: Koh, Harold Hongju - Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew)
    • Date: 1994
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    Interview with Christina Rico, Naples, Italy, November 15, 2001
    • Contributor: Rico, Christina - George, Scott Edward
    • Date: 2001-11-15
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    Mario Cervantes interview conducted by Briana M. O'Higgins, 2013-01-21 Mario Cervantes talks about his job as a Boeing machinist, and leaving his machinist job to become a full-time AFL-CIO union liaison in 2002. He explains that his father worked for Boeing and he began as a pattern maker. He talks about the factory; his job; his training; the work environment; issues with management; strikes; union contributions to the workscape; and his family and...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Cervantes, Mario - O'Higgins, Briana M.
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Wyatt Tee Walker oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Richmond, Virginia, 2014 July 09 Dr. Walker reflects on his involvement in the freedom movement, especially his work as Martin Luther King's chief of staff and as the Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1960-1964. He recalls helping to organize the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and supporting Dr. King in transcribing and publishing "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." He also remembers preaching in Petersburg,...
    • Contributor: Walker, Wyatt Tee - Walker, Theresa Ann - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Rosemarie Francis-Primo interview conducted by Christine Lewis, 2016-08-29. Interview of Rosemarie ("Kalifa") Francis-Primo by Christine Lewis. Like other interviews in the this project, their discussion focuses on the following themes: her biographical and background information; domestic workers' overview of their work inside their employer's homes and how they frame it as "real work"; how the domestic workforce negotiates and balances their work in other people's homes with the needs and demands of...
    • Contributor: Brooklyn Arts Council - Lewis, Christine Yvette - Occupational Folklife Project - Francis-Primo, Rosemarie
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    Alice Marie (Reynolds) Lee and Daniel Elmer Lee interview conducted by Brent A. Bjorkman, 2014-06-24 Born two-and-a-half miles from the Mammoth Cave entrance, Daniel Lee's family moved to Cave City when he was ten after their land was enveloped by the National Park designation. He took a job in the park service after leaving the military in 1948 and married his wife, Alice, that same year. He talks about his 31-year career in the National Park Service, moving between...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Lee, Daniel Elmer - Lee, Alice Marie - Björkman, Brent
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Charles Wells interview conducted by Brent A. Bjorkman, 2014-04-23 Charles Wells was previously named the regional winner of the National Park Service's prestigious Harry Yount Award, which honors rangers "who have the skills to perform a wide scope of ranger duties." He grew up near Mammoth Cave National Park, and in 1980, while a student at Western Kentucky University, was hired by the Young Adult Conservation Corps. Deciding to pursue a career as...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Wells, Eddie (Charles Edward) - Björkman, Brent
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Grace Miller oral history interview conducted by Will Griffin in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09 Grace Hall Miller (mother of activist Shirley Sherrod) describes her childhood in Baker County, Georgia, her education in segregated schools, her marriage to Hosie Miller, and their early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Grace Hall Miller's commitment to the Baker County Movement grew following the murder of her husband by a white neighbor in 1965. She describes how her house became headquarters for...
    • Contributor: Miller, Grace H. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Griffin, Willie James
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Robert J. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in High Point, North Carolina, 2013 October 01 Robert Brown describes his childhood in High Point, North Carolina, the poverty and segregation that defined his childhood, and how his grandmother influenced him by telling stories about his family's history during slavery. Brown became one of the first black policemen in High Point and later transitioned to a position as a federal agent in New York. He returned to North Carolina in 1960...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Brown, Robert J. - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Bogumila Dabrowska interview conducted by Jonathan E. Kay, 2014-05-06 Bogumila Dabrowska was trained as an architect in her native Poland. After moving to the U.S. with her husband early in her career, she worked for several architectural firms on the East Coast before joining the DNR's Division of Engineering. In this interview, she discusses several building projects--including the Bethlehem Steel tower project at Indiana Dunes State Park, and the O'Bannon Woods State Park...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Dabrowska, Bogumila - Kay, Jon
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur Paysour in Marvell, Arkansas, 2010 November 22 Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in rural Arkansas. She discusses assisting Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers Howard Himmelbaum and Myrtle Glascoe, working for Head Start, and starting a community center. Jackson's grandson is also interviewed.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Paysour, Lafleur
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Shirley Miller Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011 September 15 Shirley Sherrod recalls growing up on a farm in Baker County, Georgia, her father's murder, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She remembers traveling to Washington, D. C., to protest the Justice Department, and the attacks on her husband, Reverend Charles Sherrod, a civil rights leader in Albany, Georgia. She also discusses starting the New Communities Land Trust and working for the...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Sherrod, Shirley
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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