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Film, Video Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013 June 21

Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013 June 21

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Title

  • Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013 June 21

Summary

  • Walter Tillow discusses how he joined the Civil Rights Movement as a college student and how that led him into labor and leftist movements. He describes his childhood in New York City and the leftist politics of his parents, as well as how he learned about the Movement as a college student at Harpur College and as a graduate student at Cornell University. In 1963 he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and moved to Fayette County, Georgia where he worked on voter registration drives. He later worked in the SNCC communication office in Atlanta. He describes in detail the movement for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In 1965 he left the Movement to work for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and he later worked for the Communist Party.

Names

  • Tillow, Walter M., 1940- interviewee
  • Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Tillow, Walter M.,--1940---Interviews
  • -  Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Civil rights workers--United States--Interviews
  • -  Communists--United States--Interviews
  • -  Voter registration--Georgia

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Louisville, Kentucky on June 21, 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.
  • -  Walter Tillow was a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He was also a labor organizer for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), an anti-war activist, and member of the Communist Party.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 7 video files of 7 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (108 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (59 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0092

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

  • 2015669191

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  • 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:

Tillow, Walter M., Interviewee, David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669191/.

APA citation style:

Tillow, W. M., Cline, D. P. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669191/.

MLA citation style:

Tillow, Walter M., Interviewee, David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669191/>.