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Film, Video Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama, 2011 June 01

Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama, 2011 June 01

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Title

  • Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama, 2011 June 01

Summary

  • Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders in 1961, and spending a year in a segregated sanitarium when she had tuberculosis. She recounts organizing Tuskegee students for the Selma to Montgomery March, occupying the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and registering voters in Lowndes County.

Names

  • Patton, Gwendolyn M., 1943- interviewee
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Patton, Gwendolyn M.,--1943---Interviews
  • -  Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.)
  • -  Tuskegee Institute
  • -  Selma to Montgomery Rights March--(1965 :--Selma, Ala.)
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Interviews
  • -  African American college students--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Discrimination in medical care--Alabama
  • -  Freedom Rides, 1961

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Montgomery, Alabama, on June 1, 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.).
  • -  Gwendolyn Patton was born 1943 in Detroit, Michigan. She attended Tuskegee University, Antioch College, Union Graduate School, and Interdenominational Institute of Theology. Patton was a civil rights activist and archivist.
  • -  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) (111 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (50 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0020

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

  • 2015669119

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • video

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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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:

Patton, Gwendolyn M., Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669119/.

APA citation style:

Patton, G. M., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669119/.

MLA citation style:

Patton, Gwendolyn M., Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669119/>.