Top of page

Film, Video Carrie Lamar Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Little Rock, Arkansas, 2011 September 26

Carrie M. Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Little Rock, Arkansas, 2011 September 26

More Resources

View 50 images in sequence.
[ 1 transcript ]

About this Item

Title

  • Carrie Lamar Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Little Rock, Arkansas, 2011 September 26

Summary

  • Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including Myrtle Glascoe, Bill Hansen, and Howard Himmelbaum. She remembers registering voters, gathering signatures to overturn a poll tax, and protesting at the Arkansas state capitol. She discusses her marriage to Howard Himmelbaum, suing her employer for discrimination, and working with the group Black United Youth in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Names

  • Young, Carrie Lamar, 1948- interviewee
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Young, Carrie Lamar,--1948---Interviews
  • -  Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza
  • -  Hansen, Bill,--1939
  • -  Himmelbaum, Howard
  • -  Black United Youth
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Arkansas--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Discrimination in employment--Arkansas
  • -  Interracial marriage
  • -  Voter registration--Arkansas

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Little Rock, Arkansas, on September 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.).
  • -  Carrie Young was born in 1948 in Barton, Arkansas, married Howard L. Himmelbaum in 1967 and later Carl E. Young, and had one child. She attended the Opportunity Industrialization Center and the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, and worked as a keypunch operator, accounting clerk, publication printing, and in data entry and administrative work.
  • -  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 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (125 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (65 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0056

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

  • 2015669155

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • video

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The individuals documented in these collection items retain copyright and related rights to the use of their recorded and written testimonies and memories.  They have granted the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution permission to provide access to their interviews and related materials for purposes that are consistent with each agency’s educational mission, such as publication and transmission, in whole or in part, on the Web. Their written permission is required for commercial, profit-making distribution, reproduction, or other use beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. See our Legal Notices and Privacy and Publicity Rights for additional information and restrictions.

The American Folklife Center, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the professional fieldworkers who carry out these projects feel a strong ethical responsibility to the people they have visited and who have consented to have their lives documented for the historical record. The Center asks that researchers approach the materials in this collection with respect for the culture and sensibilities of the people whose lives, ideas, and creativity are documented here. Researchers are also reminded that privacy and publicity rights may pertain to certain uses of this material.

Researchers or others who would like to make further use of these collection materials should contact the Folklife Reading Room for assistance. 

Credit Line

Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Young, Carrie Lamar, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Carrie Lamar Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Little Rock, Arkansas. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669155/.

APA citation style:

Young, C. L., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) Carrie Lamar Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Little Rock, Arkansas. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669155/.

MLA citation style:

Young, Carrie Lamar, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Carrie Lamar Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Little Rock, Arkansas. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669155/>.