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Film, Video Johnnie Ruth McCullar oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09

Johnnie Ruth McCullar oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09

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Title

  • Johnnie Ruth McCullar oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09

Summary

  • Johnnie Ruth Browner McCullar describes growing up in southwest Georgia, attending segregated schools in Sasser, Georgia, and her work in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She was a secretary of the Terrell County Movement and she also participated in sit-ins and helped to register voters. McCullar reflects on the legacy of the movement, noting the changes in social and political life that she has witnessed during her life, but also recognizing present-day challenges.

Names

  • McCullar, Johnnie Ruth, 1940- interviewee
  • Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973- interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  McCullar, Johnnie Ruth,--1940---Interviews
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
  • -  Civil rights movements--Georgia
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Voter registration--Georgia

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.).
  • -  Johnnie Ruth McCullar was a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Terrell County, Georgia. She also worked as a certified nursing assistant and paraprofessional teacher.
  • -  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) (62 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (36 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0065

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

  • 2015669164

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • video

Additional Metadata Formats

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:

Mccullar, Johnnie Ruth, Interviewee, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Johnnie Ruth McCullar oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669164/.

APA citation style:

McCullar, J. R., Jeffries, H. K. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) Johnnie Ruth McCullar oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669164/.

MLA citation style:

Mccullar, Johnnie Ruth, Interviewee, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Johnnie Ruth McCullar oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669164/>.