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    Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, 2011 May 23 Wheeler Parker, Jr., discusses his visit to Mississippi with his cousin, Emmett Till. He recalls the incident at Bryant's store and the night that Till was kidnapped, and Till's funeral in Chicago. He remembers how the murder and publicity affected his family, the reopening of the case in 2004, and efforts to memorialize Till.
    • Contributor: Parker, Wheeler - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Behnaz Sohrabian interview conducted by Dr. Julie Pearson Little Thunder, 2020-02-18 In her interview, Iranian-born painter and visual artist Behnaz Sohrabian discusses growing up in Tehran and her family's encouragement to pursue art at an early age. She describes her school experience during the Iranian Revolution and the art landscape in Tehran. She talks about exhibiting her work across Western Asia and how she ended up coming to Oklahoma. She also discusses the ways her...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Little Thunder, Julie Pearson - Sohrabian, Behnaz
    • Date: 2020
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    William Lucy oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, D.C., 2013 June 25 William Lucy discusses his role in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in the 1960s, especially how he and the union supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1966 Lucy started to work for AFSCME in Washington, D.C., as the Associate Director of the Department of Legislation and Community Affairs. Lucy explains AFSCME's support of the Civil...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Lucy, William - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Klansville U.S.A.
    Klansville USA | American experience Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
    • Contributor: Cunningham, David - Wiser, Callie Taintor - Lionelli, Gary - Wgbh (Television Station : Boston, Mass.) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Ervin, Chad - Longo, Jason - PBS Distribution (Firm) - Platt, Oliver - American Experience Films - Five O'Clock Films - Espar, David
    • Date: 2015
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    Lincoln and the Civil War Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Collection of four documentaries providing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and significant events that surrounded him. Utilizing interviews with leading Lincoln biographers, Lincoln explores the inner conflicts that plagued and inspired the man who called himself "the loneliest man in the world." In a ploy that was ultimately foiled by the Secret Service, Stealing Lincoln's Body documents the 1876 plot to steal Lincoln's body...
    • Contributor: Vixpix Films - Crowley, Phil - Adams, Jonathan - History (Television Network) - New Video Group - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Herrmann, Edward - Arts and Entertainment Network - History Channel (Television Network)
    • Date: 2012
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    Julia Matilda Burns oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Tchula, Mississippi, 2013 March 13 Julia Matilda Burns describes her experience in segregated schools in Humphreys County, Mississippi, where she grew up. After becoming a teacher at Marshall High School in Belzoni, Mississippi, she began to take notice of the Civil Rights Movement, but her involvement was limited because she did not want to lose her job. Burns describes protests by whites against school desegregation in Tchula, Mississippi, and...
    • Contributor: Burns, Julia Matilda - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Dittmer, John
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Michael D. McCarty oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 26 Michael "Mac" McCarty talks about joining the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago, IL. He discusses racism in Chicago and the leadership of Fred Hampton of the Party and the beginnings of the Rainbow Coalition that brought together African Americans and Appalachian whites. He recalls the circumstances under which Hampton was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 21 by the COINTELPRO operation of...
    • Contributor: McCarty, Michael D. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 April 26 Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and dance, and traveling to Albany, Georgia, to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with voter registration. She remembers teaching adult literacy in Mississippi with SNCC, starting the Free Southern Theater,...
    • Contributor: Derby, Doris Adelaide - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Matthew J. Perry oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Columbia, South Carolina, 2011 June 07 Judge Matthew J. Perry recalls serving in the military during World War II, and experiencing discrimination during the war. He remembers watching a trial that inspired him to go to the newly formed law school at South Carolina State College. He discusses his start as a trial lawyer in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the famous civil rights cases he argued, joining the NAACP Legal Defense...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Dorothy 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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    War made easy : how presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death
    How presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death | War made easy : | How presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    " ... exposes how presidential administrations of both parties have relied on a combination of deception and media complicity to sell one war after another to the American people. Narrated by actor Sean Penn, and based on the acclaimed book by Norman Solomon, the film exhumes five decades of remarkable archival footage to reveal in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically...
    • Contributor: Media Education Foundation - Killoy, Andrew - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Penn, Sean - Institute for Public Accuracy - Solomon, Norman - Alper, Loretta - Rabinovitz, David - Disinformation Company - Earp, Jeremy
    • Date: 2008
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    Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24 Marilyn Hildreth describes growing up in segregated Oklahoma and the leadership of her mother, Clara Luper, in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group. She recalls participating in a drug store sit-in as a child, and the success the group had with several restaurants in Oklahoma City. She remembers her mother's leadership in the African American community in...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Luis 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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    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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    Sing Along with Pete Seeger videorecording | videorecording ; 29 min | Forms part of the Seeger Family Tribute Collection (Source). Recorded at the Library of Congress (Venue). 4:3 Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Seeger, Pete
    • Date: 2007
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    Wretches & jabberers
    Wretches and jabberers | Wretches & jabberers: and stories from the road Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    "Two men with autism embark on a global quest to change prevailing attitudes about disability and intelligence ... Thresher and Bissonnette put a new face on autism as they travel and meet others with autism in Sri Lanka, Japan, and Finland"--Container.
    • Contributor: Bissonnette, Larry - Wurzburg, Gerardine - Hussman, John P. - Thresher, Tracy - Griffin, Gary Keith - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Biklen, Douglas - State of the Art, Inc
    • Date: 2010
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    Leesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 03 Leesco Guster remembers experiencing segregation growing up and working in Port Gibson, Mississippi, and Chicago, Illinois. She recalls her work as an activist in Port Gibson, where she canvassed for voting rights, boycotted segregated businesses, and joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She also discusses churches' role in the Civil Rights Movement and her participation in the trial NAACP...
    • Contributor: Guster, Leesco - Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011 September 20 David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, participating in the march, and their later life in Silver Spring, Maryland.
    • Contributor: Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Ackerman, David M. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Ericka C. Huggins oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Oakland, California, 2016 June 30 Ericka Huggins discusses joining the Los Angeles Chapter of the Blank Panther Party in 1967. She shares her involvement with community survival programs such as the People's Free Medical Clinics and Breakfast Programs. Sharing how these programs were often undervalued and overlooked by the suspicions of the police and the FBI, she sheds considerable light on the turbulent experience of being a Panther woman....
    • Contributor: Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Huggins, Ericka
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    Tapped Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig examines the big business of bottled water. Viewers get a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a...
    • Contributor: David, Josh - Caplan, Ruth - Atlas Films - Moore, Charles - Walrath, Michael - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Soechtig, Stephanie - Carman, Neil J. - Blumenauer, Earl - Vom Saal, Frederick S. ... David, Josh - Caplan, Ruth - Atlas Films - Moore, Charles - Walrath, Michael - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Soechtig, Stephanie - Carman, Neil J. - Blumenauer, Earl - Vom Saal, Frederick S. - Franklin, Shirley - Royte, Elizabeth - Gibson, Sarah - Walrath, Michelle - Millikan, Michael - Hauter, Wenonah - Disinformation Company - Ozymy, Melissa Jarrell
    • Date: 2010
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    Mildred Pitts Walter oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Mateo, California, 2013 March 01 Mildred Pitts Walter discusses her early life in Louisiana, attending Southern University, and moving to Los Angeles in 1944. Pitts recalls meeting Earl Walter whom she married two years later, her work with Earl who headed the Los Angeles chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1951 to 1963, CORE pickets of housing developers in Los Angeles, and her work as a...
    • Contributor: Walter, Mildred Pitts - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Calvin Luper oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24 Calvin Luper remembers his mother, Clara Luper, and her leadership in Oklahoma City's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council. He recalls participating in sit-ins in drug stores and restaurants, and hosting a radio show with his mother. He also remembers other leaders in Oklahoma's civil rights movement, including Dr. Charles N. Atkins, E. Melvin Porter, and Ada Lois Sipuel.
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Luper, Calvin - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Ellie Dahmer oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2015 November 30 Ellie Dahmer discusses her involvement in the NAACP and voting rights activism in Forrest County, Mississippi. She recalls her experiences in education, both as a student at local schools, Alcorn State University, and Tennessee A&I, and as a teacher in schools throughout Mississippi. Her career as a Forrest County election commissioner is also discussed. She speaks about her husband, fellow activist Vernon Dahmer, and...
    • Contributor: Bishop, John Melville - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    History detectives. Season 10 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available America's top gumshoes prove that an object found in an attic or backyard might be anything but ordinary. They leave no stone unturned as they travel around the country to explore the stories behind local folklore, prominent figures and family legends.
    • Contributor: Cowan, C. Wesley - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Luray, Elyse - Wright, Gwendolyn - PBS Distribution (Firm) - Zuberi, Tukufu - Lion Television Ltd
    • Date: 2012
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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