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Film, Video Martha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Cockeysville, Maryland, 2013 March 18

Martha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Cockeysville, Maryland, 2013 March 18

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Title

  • Martha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Cockeysville, Maryland, 2013 March 18

Summary

  • Martha Prescod Norman Noonan describes her childhood in Providence, Rhode Island, and being one of the few black families in the neighborhood. Her parents urged her to attend the University of Michigan, where she joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and learned about the Civil Rights Movement in the South. She eventually made her way to Albany, Georgia, where she worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She also worked in the Movement in Mississippi and later in Alabama. Noonan describes the March on Washington, her perception of Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the early iterations of Black Power.

Names

  • Noonan, Martha P., interviewee
  • Dittmer, John, 1939- interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Noonan, Martha P.--Interviews
  • -  Mississippi Freedom Project
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
  • -  March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--Georgia
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Cockeysville, Maryland, on March 18, 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.).
  • -  Martha Prescod Norman Noonan grew up in Rhode Island and attended the University of Michigan. She was a fundraiser and a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She later worked as a community organizer in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • -  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

  • 7 video files of 7 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (93 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (50 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0080

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

  • 2015669179

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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:

Noonan, Martha P., Interviewee, John Dittmer, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Martha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Cockeysville, Maryland. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669179/.

APA citation style:

Noonan, M. P., Dittmer, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) Martha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Cockeysville, Maryland. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669179/.

MLA citation style:

Noonan, Martha P., Interviewee, John Dittmer, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Martha Prescod Norman Noonan oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Cockeysville, Maryland. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669179/>.