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Film, Video Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi, 2015 December 05

Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi, 2015 December 05

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Title

  • Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi, 2015 December 05

Summary

  • Charles McLaurin discusses his work as a Civil Rights activist in the 1950's and 60's. He begins by discussing the racism he experienced growing up and how this shaped his personal and political values. McLaurin mainly describes working with African American voter registration rights issues, SNCC, and the Freedom Riders. He describes how he became a congressional officer for a number of years in Mississippi, working closely with Fannie Lou Hamer as her congressional campaign manager. McLaurin describes his involvement in a range of Mississippi-based protests, as well as his experiences with the judicial system and his personal arrests.

Names

  • McLaurin, Charles, interviewee
  • Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
  • Bishop, John Melville, videographer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2015.

Headings

  • -  McLaurin, Charles--Interviews
  • -  Bevel, James L.--(James Luther),--1936-2008
  • -  Cobb, Charles E.,--Jr
  • -  Evers, Medgar Wiley,--1925-1963
  • -  Hamer, Fannie Lou
  • -  King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968
  • -  Moore, Amzie,--1911-1982
  • -  Moses, Robert Parris
  • -  Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  • -  Delta Ministry
  • -  Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  • -  Mississippi Freedom Project
  • -  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
  • -  African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Discrimination in the military--United States
  • -  Freedom Rides, 1961
  • -  Nonviolence--Mississippi
  • -  Racism--Mississippi
  • -  Voter registration--Mississippi
  • -  Jackson (Miss.)--History
  • -  Mississippi--Politics and government--1951
  • -  Mississippi--Race relations

Genre

  • Personal narratives
  • Filmed interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Indianola, Mississippi, on December 5, 2015.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0121), 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.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 14 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (4:36:56) : digital, sound, color.
  • transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0121

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

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016655412

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  • video

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Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Mclaurin, Charles, Interviewee, Emilye Crosby, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655412/.

APA citation style:

McLaurin, C., Crosby, E., Bishop, J. M. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2015) Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655412/.

MLA citation style:

Mclaurin, Charles, Interviewee, et al. Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016655412/>.