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Film, Video Joan Trumpauer Mulholland oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Arlington, Virginia, 2013 March 17

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Arlington, Virginia, 2013 March 17

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Title

  • Joan Trumpauer Mulholland oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Arlington, Virginia, 2013 March 17

Summary

  • Joan Trumpauer Mulholland shares how, as a child in Arlington, Virginia, her awareness of racial disparities grew. As a student at Duke University, she began participating in the sit-in movement. She soon moved to Washington, D.C. and joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), which led her to participate in the Freedom Rides of 1961. She describes in detail serving time at Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) with other civil rights activists. Mulholland also discusses attending Tougaloo College and her involvement in the Jackson sit-in movement.

Names

  • Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer, 1941- interviewee
  • Dittmer, John, 1939- interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer,--1941---Interviews
  • -  Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.)
  • -  Tougaloo College
  • -  Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Jackson
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Freedom Rides, 1961
  • -  Women civil rights workers--United States--Interviews

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Arlington, Virginia, on March 17, 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.).
  • -  Joan Trumpauer Mulholland attended Duke University and Tougaloo College. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961. She later worked at the Smithsonian Institution, at the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Justice and as a teacher in Arlington, Virginia.
  • -  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

  • 8 video files of 8 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (126 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (70 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0079

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

  • 2015669178

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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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:

Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer, Interviewee, John Dittmer, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Arlington, Virginia. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669178/.

APA citation style:

Mulholland, J. T., Dittmer, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) Joan Trumpauer Mulholland oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Arlington, Virginia. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669178/.

MLA citation style:

Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer, Interviewee, John Dittmer, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Arlington, Virginia. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669178/>.