- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Robert G. Clark, Jr., oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Pickens, Mississippi, 2013-03-13
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dittmer, John, 1939-
Clark, Robert George, 1929- - Date of Original:
- 2013-03-13
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
African American teachers--Mississippi--Interviews
African American politicians--Mississippi--Interviews - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Holmes County, 33.12351, -90.09205
United States, Mississippi, Holmes County, Pickens, 32.88374, -89.97147 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
image/tiff
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application/pdf - Description:
- Robert G. Clark, Jr., describes the early life experiences that led up to his successful campaign for political office in the Mississippi Legislature, where he became the first African American elected since Reconstruction. He discusses his childhood in Pickens, Mississippi, and he describes the family farm that he now owns, his relationship to his family, and the expectations that they had of him to receive an education. Clark discusses his career as an educator, and he describes how the Civil Rights Movement influenced him. After a failed campaign for school superintendent he volunteered to run for state office. Clark describes his experiences in the Mississippi Legislature, focusing on how he helped to pass the Education Reform Act.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0075/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video files of 8 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (118 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (53 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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