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Film, Video D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee, 2013 August 13

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee, 2013 August 13

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Title

  • D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee, 2013 August 13

Summary

  • D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participation in the civil rights activism as a student at Southern University, for which he was ultimately expelled. Bailey describes his move to Clark University in Massachusetts, where he became involved in the Northern Student Movement. After discussing his time spent at Boston University Law School, Bailey talks about a series of jobs he had related to civil rights and legal services, including serving as the director of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (LSCRRC). Bailey also describes his career in California as a Berkeley City Councilman, his recall from that post, and his subsequent move back to his hometown of Memphis, where he has served as a lawyer, judge, and founder of the National Civil Rights Museum.

Names

  • Bailey, D'Army, 1941-2015, interviewee
  • Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Bailey, D'Army,--1941-2015--Interviews
  • -  Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (U.S.)
  • -  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Louisiana--Interviews
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Interviews
  • -  African American lawyers--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--Louisiana
  • -  Civil rights movements--Tennessee
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States--Songs and music
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Berkeley (Calif.)--Politics and government

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, on August 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.).
  • -  D'Army Bailey was a civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, actor and member of the Berkeley, California, city council. He helped found the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • -  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

  • 14 video files of 14 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (191 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (93 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0098

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669197

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:

Bailey, D'Army, Interviewee, David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669197/.

APA citation style:

Bailey, D., Cline, D. P. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669197/.

MLA citation style:

Bailey, D'Army, Interviewee, David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669197/>.