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Norma Mtume oral history interview conducted bv David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 27

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Title

  • Norma Mtume oral history interview conducted bv David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 27

Summary

  • Norma Mtume talks about her involvement with the Black Panther Party (BPP); her work in the free medical clinics established by the BPP and her incarceration on trumped-up charges orchestrated by the COINTELPRO initiative of the FBI. She talks of her subsequent work to establish city-wide free health-care programs

Names

  • Mtume, Norma, interviewee
  • Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
  • Bishop, John Melville, videographer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2016.

Headings

  • -  Mtume, Norma--Interviews
  • -  Carter, Alprentice,--1942-1969
  • -  Newton, Huey P
  • -  Black Panther Party
  • -  Cointelpro
  • -  US (Organization)
  • -  African American women civil rights workers--California--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--California
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Clinics--California
  • -  Community health services

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Los Angeles, California, on June 27, 2016.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0138), 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.).
  • -  Norma Stoker Mtume was born in 1949 in San Diego, CA. She moved to South Central Los Angeles at the age of four. After graduating from high school in 1967, she attended Cal State LA and became involved in the Black Student Union and met her first husband, Albert Armour. Through Armour, she became involved with the Black Panther Party. She worked in free clinics in LA and Berkeley in the 1970s. She went on to work for non-profit community health organizations including SHIELDS for Families.
  • -  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

  • 8 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (1:25:12) : digital, sound, color.
  • transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0138

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

  • 2016655429

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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:

Mtume, Norma, Interviewee, David P Cline, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Norma Mtume oral history interview conducted bv David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California. 2016. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655429/.

APA citation style:

Mtume, N., Cline, D. P., Bishop, J. M. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2016) Norma Mtume oral history interview conducted bv David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655429/.

MLA citation style:

Mtume, Norma, Interviewee, et al. Norma Mtume oral history interview conducted bv David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California. 2016. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016655429/>.