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William S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Segundo, California, 2013 April 13

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Title

  • William S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Segundo, California, 2013 April 13

Summary

  • Willy Siegel Leventhal discusses his childhood in California, his experiences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1960s, and his involvement in the Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE). Leventhal describes what it was like to be a Jewish child in a mostly Catholic community and how his childhood experiences informed his later activism and identity. Baseball was especially important to him, as he witnessed the first Jewish and African American ballplayers desegregate the Major Leagues. Leventhal became active in SCOPE during his first year at UCLA, after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visited campus to recruit students. Leventhal describes the SCOPE training in Atlanta, and he shares his memories of living and working in Macon and Americus, Georgia.

Names

  • Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel), 1946-2016, interviewee
  • Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Leventhal, Willy S.--(Willy Siegel),--1946-2016--Interviews
  • -  Summer Community Organization and Political Education (Organization)
  • -  Selma to Montgomery Rights March--(1965 :--Selma, Ala.)
  • -  African Americans--Relations with Jews
  • -  Civil rights movements--Georgia
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Civil rights workers--United States--Interviews
  • -  Voter registration--Georgia

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in El Segundo, California, on April 13, 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.).
  • -  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.
  • -  Willy Siegel Leventhal attended the University of California, Los Angeles and worked for the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He later became a special education teacher and baseball coach and worked on several political campaigns.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 8 video files of 8 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (182 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (113 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0082

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

  • 2015669181

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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:

Leventhal, Willy S. , Interviewee, David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. William S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Segundo, California. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669181/.

APA citation style:

Leventhal, W. S., Cline, D. P. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) William S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Segundo, California. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669181/.

MLA citation style:

Leventhal, Willy S. , Interviewee, David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. William S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Segundo, California. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669181/>.