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Film, Video Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011 May 27

Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011 May 27

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Title

  • Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011 May 27

Summary

  • Cynthia and Fletcher Anderson remember the segregation and job discrimination they faced in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their decision to join the Civil Rights Movement. Fletcher recalls working many different jobs at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill, the harassment of the police and Ku Klux Klan, and joining the Deacons of Defense and Justice. They discuss their job discrimination lawsuits, their friends involved in the civil rights movement, and the current state of race relations in Bogalusa.

Names

  • Anderson, Cynthia Baker, interviewee
  • Anderson, Fletcher, 1938- interviewee
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Anderson, Cynthia Baker--Interviews
  • -  Anderson, Fletcher,--1938---Interviews
  • -  Hicks, Robert,--1929-2010
  • -  Hicks, Valeria Payton
  • -  Bogalusa Voters League
  • -  Crown Zellerbach Corporation
  • -  Deacons for Defense and Justice
  • -  Civil rights movements--Louisiana--Bogalusa
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Discrimination in employment--Louisiana--Bogalusa
  • -  Labor unions--Louisiana--Bogalusa

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Bogalusa, Louisiana, on May 27, 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.).
  • -  Cynthia Baker Anderson grew up in Bogalusa, Louisiana. She was married to Fletcher Anderson and had three children.
  • -  Fletcher Anderson was born in 1938 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, married Cynthia Baker and had three children. He graduated from Central Memorial High School and worked at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill in many jobs, eventually as an overhead crane operator. He joined the Deacons of Defense and Justice and the Bogalusa Voters League, and was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement in Bogalusa.
  • -  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

  • 4 video files of 4 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (82 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (39 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0016

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669115

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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:

Anderson, Cynthia Baker, Interviewee, Fletcher Anderson, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669115/.

APA citation style:

Anderson, C. B., Anderson, F., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669115/.

MLA citation style:

Anderson, Cynthia Baker, Interviewee, et al. Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669115/>.