Film, Video Clifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09
Clifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09
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Title
- Clifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09
Summary
- Clifford Browner discusses his childhood in Sasser, Georgia, and how he came to be involved in the Southwest Georgia Movement for civil rights in the early 1960s. He describes mass meetings at Mount Olive Baptist Church, protesting racial segregation at his high school, and participating in the March on Washington. He concludes the interview by evaluating the changes he has seen in southwest Georgia over his lifetime.
Names
- Browner, Clifford, interviewee
- Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973- interviewer
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
Created / Published
- 2013.
Headings
- - Browner, Clifford--Interviews
- - Southwest Georgia Project
- - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
- - African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
- - African American veterans--Interviews
- - Civil rights movements--Georgia
- - Civil rights movements--United States
Genre
- Filmed Interviews
- Interviews
- Oral histories
- Video recordings
Notes
- - Recorded in Albany, Georgia on March 9, 2013.
- - 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.).
- - Clifford Browner was a civil rights activist in Terrell County, Georgia. He attended Albany State University and joined the Army, and eventually worked in factories in Flint, Michigan, and Atlanta, Georgia.
- - 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
- 2 video files of 2 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (65 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- 1 transcript (40 pages).
Source Collection
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0061
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_crhp0061
- afc2010039text.afc2010039_crhp0061_Browner_transcript
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2015669160
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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- image
- video