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Film, Video Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, 2010 November 17

Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, 2010 November 17

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Title

  • Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, 2010 November 17

Summary

  • 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 Howard Himmelbaum and Gertrude Jackson. She also discusses her work as the director of the Avery Research Center and her opinions on the education of African Americans.

Names

  • Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza, interviewee
  • Reece, Dwandalyn R., interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2010.

Headings

  • -  Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza--Interviews
  • -  Himmelbaum, Howard
  • -  Jackson, Gertrude Newsome,--1923
  • -  Avery Research Center
  • -  Congress of Racial Equality
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--Arkansas
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States

Genre

  • Filmed interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Capitol Heights, Maryland, on November 17, 2010.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
  • -  Myrtle Gonza Glascoe was born in 1936 and attended Howard University, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. She worked as a social worker, college professor, and teacher. From 1965 to 1967 she was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in Phillips County, Arkansas, and West Point, Mississippi.
  • -  The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 2 videocassettes of 2 (DVCAM) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master.
  • 1 transcript (83 pages).
  • 3 photographs : digital, jpg files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0003

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540 to 4610 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669102

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Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Credit Line

Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza, Interviewee, Dwandalyn R Reece, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland. 2010. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669102/.

APA citation style:

Glascoe, M. G., Reece, D. R. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2010) Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669102/.

MLA citation style:

Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza, Interviewee, Dwandalyn R Reece, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland. 2010. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669102/>.