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Film, Video Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland, 2013 June 27

Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland, 2013 June 27

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Title

  • Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland, 2013 June 27

Summary

  • Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did with the United Farm Workers and how he ended up moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, for four years where he organized for the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union and helped to register voters with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Zapata also discusses his later involvement in the congressional campaign of Mike Espy as well as his participation in international movements for human rights.

Names

  • Zapata, Luis, 1944-2015, interviewee
  • Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Zapata, Luis,--1944-2015--Interviews
  • -  Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  • -  Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  • -  Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  United Farm Workers
  • -  Agricultural laborers--California--History
  • -  Agricultural laborers--Mississippi--History
  • -  Civil rights movements--California
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Civil rights workers--United States--Interviews

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Silver Spring, Maryland, on June 27, 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.).
  • -  Luis Zapata was an civil rights activist and labor organizer. He worked for the United Farm Workers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, and many other organizations.
  • -  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) (122 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (71 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0095

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

  • 2015669194

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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:

Zapata, Luis, Interviewee, Emilye Crosby, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669194/.

APA citation style:

Zapata, L., Crosby, E. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669194/.

MLA citation style:

Zapata, Luis, Interviewee, Emilye Crosby, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669194/>.