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Film, Video Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida, 2011 September 13

Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida, 2011 September 13

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Title

  • Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida, 2011 September 13

Summary

  • Barbara Vickers recalls growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, working in a shipyard in New York during World War II, and returning to St. Augustine with her husband. She remembers working as a beautician, working with her neighbor, Dr. Robert Hayling, to organize civil rights protests and participating in kneel-ins in segregated churches. She also discusses raising money to build a monument to the foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement in St. Augustine.

Names

  • Vickers, Barbara Edna, 1923- interviewee
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Vickers, Barbara Edna,--1923---Interviews
  • -  Hayling, Robert Bagner
  • -  African American beauty operators--Interviews
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Florida--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Saint Augustine
  • -  Civil rights movements--Florida--Saint Augustine
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Monuments--Florida--Saint Augustine

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Saint Augustine, Florida, on September 13, 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.).
  • -  Barbara Vickers was born in 1923 in Saint Augustine, Florida, and attended Excelsior High School. She was a beautician and civil rights activist in Saint Augustine.
  • -  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

  • 4 video files of 4 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (59 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (31 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0046

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

  • 2015669145

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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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:

Vickers, Barbara Edna, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669145/.

APA citation style:

Vickers, B. E., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669145/.

MLA citation style:

Vickers, Barbara Edna, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669145/>.