Film, Video Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24
Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24
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Title
- Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011 May 24
Summary
- 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 Oklahoma, and her involvement in the 1968 sanitation workers' strike.
Names
- Hildreth, Marilyn Luper, 1947- interviewee
- Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
Created / Published
- 2011.
Headings
- - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper,--1947---Interviews
- - Luper, Calvin,--1946
- - Luper, Clara,--1923-2011
- - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.--Youth Council
- - African American civil rights workers--Oklahoma--Interviews
- - Civil rights demonstrations--Oklahoma--Oklahoma City
- - Civil rights movements--Oklahoma
- - Civil rights movements--United States
- - Discrimination in public accommodations--Oklahoma
Genre
- Filmed interviews
- Interviews
- Oral histories
- Video recordings
Notes
- - Recorded in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on May 24, 2011.
- - 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.).
- - Marilyn Hildreth was born in 1947 in Oklahoma. Her mother, Clara Luper, was a teacher and local civil rights activist. Hildreth participated in many sit-ins and demonstrations with her mother and brother Calvin in Oklahoma City. She attended Douglass High School and worked in insurance sales and administration.
- - 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 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005
Medium
- 3 video files of 3 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (33 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- 1 transcript (16 pages).
Source Collection
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0012
Repository
- Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
Digital Id
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0012
- afc2010039text.afc2010039_crhp0012_hildreth_transcript
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2015669111
Access Advisory
- Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
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- video
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Location
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Subject
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Discrimination in Public Accommodations
- Filmed Interviews
- Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
- Interviews
- Luper, Calvin
- Luper, Clara
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma City
- Oral Histories
- United States
- Video Recordings
- Youth Council