Film, Video William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Detroit, Michigan, 2011 July 26.

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Title

  • William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Detroit, Michigan, 2011 July 26.

Summary

  • William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath practice in Albany, Georgia, becoming a leader of the Albany Movement, and supporting protesters from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He discusses his several arrests with King and Abernathy, appearing on Meet the Press, the closing of all public facilities in Albany, and his later friendship with Sheriff Laurie Pritchett.

Contributor Names

  • Anderson, William G., 1927- interviewee.
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer.
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Subject Headings

  • -  Anderson, William G.,--1927---Interviews
  • -  Abernathy, Ralph,--1926-1990
  • -  King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968
  • -  Sherrod, Charles,--1937
  • -  Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
  • -  African American veterans--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--Georgia
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Osteopathic physicians--Interviews
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Detroit, Michigan, on July 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.).
  • -  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.
  • -  William G. Anderson was born in 1927 in Americus, Georgia, married Norma Lee Dixon, and had five children. He attended Fort Valley State College, Atlanta College of Mortuary Science, and Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy, and worked as an osteopath. He was also a civil rights activist in Albany, Georgia.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 6 video files of 6 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (153 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (56 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0041

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669140

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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, William G., Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Detroit, Michigan. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669140/.

APA citation style:

Anderson, W. G., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Detroit, Michigan. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669140/.

MLA citation style:

Anderson, William G., Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Detroit, Michigan. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669140/>.