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Film, Video Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Ojai, California, 2013 April 14

Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Ojai, California, 2013 April 14

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Title

  • Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Ojai, California, 2013 April 14

Summary

  • Gloria Claudette Grinnell recounts her participation in the sit-in movement in Richmond, Virginia, when she was a student at Virginia Union University. She describes her family's history on the East Coast and explains how she and her mother ended up in San Francisco. She discusses her decision to move from California to attend Virginia Union. She describes the sit-in movement that she joined in 1960. She discusses returning to California and her career with the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Names

  • Grinnell, Gloria Claudette, 1939- interviewee
  • Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Grinnell, Gloria Claudette,--1939---Interviews
  • -  Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.)
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Virginia--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights demonstrations--Virginia--Richmond
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Civil rights movements--Virginia

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Ojai, California, on April 14, 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.).
  • -  Gloria Claudette Collins Grinnell grew up in California and attended Virginia Union University. She participated in sit-ins in Richmond, Virginia, and later became a teacher in Los Angeles, California.
  • -  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

  • 4 video files of 4 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (67 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (43 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0083

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

  • 2015669182

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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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:

Grinnell, Gloria Claudette, Interviewee, David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Ojai, California. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669182/.

APA citation style:

Grinnell, G. C., Cline, D. P. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Ojai, California. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669182/.

MLA citation style:

Grinnell, Gloria Claudette, Interviewee, David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Gloria Claudette Grinnell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Ojai, California. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669182/>.