- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Ben Caldwell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2013-04-11
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Caldwell, Ben R. - Date of Original:
- 2013-04-11
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
African American college teachers--Interviews
Civil rights movements--California
African American artists--Interviews
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Participation, African American - Location:
- United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
image/tiff
text/xml
application/pdf
application/x-video
image/jpeg - Description:
- Ben Caldwell shares his family's history in the Southwest and his childhood experience in New Mexico. Caldwell describes his military service during the Vietnam War and how his experiences made him reflect on racial prejudices in the United States. He began studying art, and he eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he has been part of a black arts movement since the 1970s. He discusses the L.A. Rebellion, a collective of black filmmakers from UCLA, as well as various art projects in which he has been involved and documentary films he has produced.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0077/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video files of 6 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (127 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (65 pages)
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project, (U.S.) (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
