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Abernathy family oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stuttgart, Germany, 2013 October 10

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Title

  • Abernathy family oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stuttgart, Germany, 2013 October 10

Summary

  • Donzaleigh Abernathy, Juandalynn Abernathy, and Ralph Abernathy, III, recall their father, Ralph David Abernathy and their own experiences as children in the Civil Rights Movement. The Abernathy children spent much of their childhoods with the children of Martin Luther King, Jr. Unlike the King children, the Abernathy siblings actively participated in direct action, including the Poor People's Campaign. All three children felt palpably the fear of violence in their everyday lives. This interview offers an intimate portrait of the home of a civil rights icon and of the intense friendship between Abernathy and King.

Names

  • Abernathy, Donzaleigh, interviewee
  • Abernathy, Juandalynn R., interviewee
  • Abernathy, Ralph David, 1959- interviewee
  • Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973- interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2013.

Headings

  • -  Abernathy, Donzaleigh--Interviews
  • -  Abernathy, Juandalynn R.--Interviews
  • -  Abernathy, Ralph David,--1959---Interviews
  • -  Abernathy, Ralph,--1926-1990
  • -  King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968
  • -  Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--Alabama
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956
  • -  School integration--Georgia--Atlanta

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stuttgart, Germany on October 10, 2013.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Donzaleigh Abernathy is an actress, producer, director, and writer in Los Angeles, California.
  • -  Juandalynn R. Abernathy is an opera, concert, and African-American spirituals singer.
  • -  Ralph David Abernathy, III, is a social justice activist, and a former Georgia State Senator and member of the State House of Representative.
  • -  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 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 10 video files of 10 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (118 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (65 pages)

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0108

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540 to 4610 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669207

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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:

Abernathy, Donzaleigh, Interviewee, Juandalynn R Abernathy, Ralph David Abernathy, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Abernathy family oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stuttgart, Germany. 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669207/.

APA citation style:

Abernathy, D., Abernathy, J. R., Abernathy, R. D., Jeffries, H. K. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2013) Abernathy family oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stuttgart, Germany. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669207/.

MLA citation style:

Abernathy, Donzaleigh, Interviewee, et al. Abernathy family oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stuttgart, Germany. 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669207/>.