The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
Former Slave Fountain Hughes Interviewed by Hermond Norwood in 1949

Former slave Fountain Hughes (1848 or 1854–1957) describes his life during the final years of slavery and after Emancipation in an interview conducted by Hermond Norwood, a Library of Congress employee, in Baltimore in 1949.
American Folklife Center