Film, Video Carrie Lamar Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Little Rock, Arkansas, 2011 September 26.
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- 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.
- Contributor Names
- Young, Carrie Lamar, 1948- interviewee.
- Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer.
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Created / Published
- 2011.
- Subject 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 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
- Digital Id
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0056
- afc2010039text.afc2010039_crhp0056_young_transcript
- Library of Congress Control Number
- 2015669155
- 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
- Online Format
- image
- video
- LCCN Permalink
- https://lccn.loc.gov/2015669155
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- Dublin Core Record
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Subjects
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- Arkansas
- Black United Youth
- Civil Rights Movements
- Discrimination in Employment
- Filmed Interviews
- Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza
- Hansen, Bill
- Himmelbaum, Howard
- Interracial Marriage
- Interviews
- Oral Histories
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- United States
- Video Recordings
- Voter Registration
- Young, Carrie Lamar
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