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Film, Video Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, 2010 October 29

Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, 2010 October 29

About this Item

Title

  • Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, 2010 October 29

Summary

  • Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker and worked in a variety of administrative positions including as director of development.

Names

  • Roxborough, Mildred Bond, 1926- interviewee
  • Bond, Julian, 1940-2015, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2010.

Headings

  • -  Roxborough, Mildred Bond,--1926---Interviews
  • -  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Civil rights--United States--Cases

Genre

  • Filmed interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in New York, New York, on October 29, 2010.
  • -  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.).
  • -  Mildred Bond Roxborough was born in 1926, grew up in Brownsville, Tennessee, and attended Howard University, New York University, and Columbia University. She married John W. Roxborough, II, in 1963. She worked as an administrator at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1954 to 1997.
  • -  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

  • 2 videocassettes of 2 (DVCAM) (84 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master.
  • 1 transcript (75 pages).
  • 2 photographs : digital, jpg files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0002

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669101

Access Advisory

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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Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Roxborough, Mildred Bond, Interviewee, Julian Bond, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York. 2010. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669101/.

APA citation style:

Roxborough, M. B., Bond, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2010) Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669101/.

MLA citation style:

Roxborough, Mildred Bond, Interviewee, Julian Bond, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York. 2010. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669101/>.