Film, Video Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oakland, California, 2011 September 01.

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Title
Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oakland, California, 2011 September 01.
Summary
Phil Hutchings recalls growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his parents' involvement in many civic organizations, and attending Howard University. He remembers joining the Nonviolent Action Group (a precursor to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)), protesting at the White Rice Inn in Maryland, and working with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. He discusses moving to Newark, New Jersey, to work for SNCC, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Newark Community Union Project. He also recalls organizing District of Columbia residents for the March on Washington and witnessing the Newark riots in 1967.
Contributor Names
Hutchings, Phil, 1942- interviewee.
Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer.
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
Created / Published
2011.
Subject Headings
-  Hutchings, Phil,--1942---Interviews
-  Carmichael, Stokely,--1941-1998
-  Howard University
-  Newark Community Union Project (N.J.)
-  Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.)
-  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
-  Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
-  March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
-  African American civil rights workers--Interviews
-  African American college students--Interviews
-  Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland
-  Civil rights movements--United States
-  Riots--New Jersey--Newark
Genre
Filmed Interviews
Interviews
Oral histories
Video recordings
Notes
-  Recorded in Oakland, California, on September 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.).
-  Phil Hutchings was born in 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Howard University and worked in education and non-profit management. He was a civil rights activist and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Newark, New Jersey.
-  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) (164 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (90 pages).
Source Collection
Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0042
Repository
Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0042
afc2010039text.afc2010039_crhp0042_hutchings_transcript
Library of Congress Control Number
2015669141
Access Advisory
Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
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LCCN Permalink
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Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Hutchings, Phil, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oakland, California. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669141/.

APA citation style:

Hutchings, P., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oakland, California. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669141/.

MLA citation style:

Hutchings, Phil, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oakland, California. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669141/>.

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