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Film, Video Linda Fuller Degelmann interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Americus, Georgia, 2013 May 28

Linda Fuller Degelmann interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Americus, Georgia, 2013 May 28

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Title

  • Linda Fuller Degelmann interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Americus, Georgia, 2013 May 28

Summary

  • Linda Fuller Degelmann discusses her experiences at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, and how she and her husband Millard Fuller were inspired to start Habitat for Humanity. She describes her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and her memories of racial segregation from childhood through young adulthood when she became aware of the Freedom Rides and the Civil Rights Movement. She and Millard decided to move to Koinonia Farm in 1968, where they worked on cooperative industries, helped to establish a child development center, and built homes, which provided the seeds for Habitat for Humanity. She goes on to describe the growth of Habitat for Humanity in the United States and internationally, and she explains the religious principles of the organization as well as linking it to the Civil Rights Movement.

Names

  • Fuller, Linda, 1941- interviewee
  • Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Fuller, Linda,--1941---Interviews
  • -  Habitat for Humanity International, Inc
  • -  Koinonia Farm
  • -  Civil rights movements--Georgia
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Americus, Georgia, on May 28, 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.).
  • -  Linda Fuller moved to the cooperative Koinonia Farm with her husband Millard in the 1960s. The Fullers founded Habitat for Humanity in 1976.
  • -  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

  • 6 video files of 6 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (128 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (53 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0089

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

  • 2015669188

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:

Fuller, Linda, Interviewee, Emilye Crosby, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Linda Fuller Degelmann interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Americus, Georgia. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669188/.

APA citation style:

Fuller, L., Crosby, E. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) Linda Fuller Degelmann interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Americus, Georgia. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669188/.

MLA citation style:

Fuller, Linda, Interviewee, Emilye Crosby, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Linda Fuller Degelmann interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Americus, Georgia. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669188/>.