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Film, Video John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2011 July 15

John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2011 July 15

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Title

  • John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2011 July 15

Summary

  • John Churchville recalls growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother's career as a music teacher, moving to New York, and converting to Islam. He remembers joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), registering voters in Americus, Georgia, and in Mississippi. He discusses moving back to Philadelphia, converting to Christianity, and founding the Freedom Library and Black People's Unity Movement.

Names

  • Churchville, John Elliott, interviewee
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Churchville, John Elliott--Interviews
  • -  X, Malcolm,--1925-1965
  • -  Black People's Unity Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • -  N.S.M Freedom Library
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  African American clergy--Interviews
  • -  African American lawyers--Interviews
  • -  Black Muslims--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Voter registration--Georgia
  • -  Voter registration--Mississippi

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 15, 2001.
  • -  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.).
  • -  John Churchville was born in 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Antioch University, Rutgers School of Law, and Canterbury University, and worked as lawyer, businessperson, educator and community organizer. He was a civil rights activist and member of 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

  • 7 video files of 7 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (153 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (73 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0033

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669132

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:

Churchville, John Elliott, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669132/.

APA citation style:

Churchville, J. E., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669132/.

MLA citation style:

Churchville, John Elliott, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669132/>.