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Film, Video Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26 Anne Sobol and Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26

Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26

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Title

  • Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26

Other Title

  • Anne Sobol and Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26

Summary

  • Richard Sobol discusses his early career as a lawyer in Washington, D. C., his involvement with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, and his decision to move to New Orleans to become a civil rights lawyer. He recalls meeting Robert Hicks of Bogalusa, Louisiana, being personally protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice, and his involvement in many job discrimination cases brought against the Crown Zellerbach paper mill. He also discusses other employment, labor union, and housing discrimination cases he argued. His wife, Anne, is also briefly interviewed.

Names

  • Sobol, Richard B., interviewee
  • Sobol, Anne Buxton, interviewee
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Sobol, Anne Buxton--Interviews
  • -  Sobol, Richard B.--Interviews
  • -  Hicks, Robert,--1929-2010
  • -  Crown Zellerbach Corporation
  • -  Deacons for Defense and Justice
  • -  Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.)
  • -  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • -  Civil rights movements--Louisiana--Bogalusa
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Discrimination in employment--Louisiana--Bogalusa
  • -  Labor unions--Louisiana--Bogalusa
  • -  Lawyers--Louisiana--New Orleans--Interviews

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 26, 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.).
  • -  Anne Sobol was a lawyer and wife of Richard Sobol.
  • -  Richard Sobol was born in 1937 in the Bronx, New York and married Anne Buxton in 1975. He attended Union College and Columbia University School of Law. He worked as civil rights attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C.
  • -  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

  • 8 video files of 8 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (121 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (59 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0015

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669114

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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:

Sobol, Richard B., Interviewee, Anne Buxton Sobol, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669114/.

APA citation style:

Sobol, R. B., Sobol, A. B., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669114/.

MLA citation style:

Sobol, Richard B., Interviewee, et al. Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669114/>.