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Film, Video Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011 July 08

Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011 July 08

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Title

  • Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011 July 08

Summary

  • Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merged with other groups to become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses the March on Washington, the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, changes in SNCC, and attending the Sixth Pan-African Congress.

Names

  • Cox, Courtland, 1941- interviewee
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Cox, Courtland,--1941---Interviews
  • -  Howard University
  • -  Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.)
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  Democratic National Convention--(1964 :--Atlantic City, N.J.)
  • -  March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
  • -  Pan African Congress
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Interviews
  • -  African American college students--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Voter registration--Alabama

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Washington, D.C., on July 8, 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.).
  • -  Courtland Cox was born in 1941 in Harlem, New York. He attended Howard University and worked in government and business in Washington, D. C. Cox was a civil rights activist and a founder of the group that became the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
  • -  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

  • 9 video files of 9 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (104 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (46 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0030

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669129

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:

Cox, Courtland, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669129/.

APA citation style:

Cox, C., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669129/.

MLA citation style:

Cox, Courtland, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669129/>.