- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Linda Fuller Degelmann interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Americus, Georgia, 2013-05-28
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Fuller, Linda, 1941-
Crosby, Emilye - Date of Original:
- 2013-05-28
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Georgia
Koinonia Farm
Habitat for Humanity International, Inc - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269
- 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 - Description:
- Linda Fuller Degelmann discusses her experiences at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, and how she and her husband Millard Fuller were inspired to start Habitat for Humanity. She describes her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and her memories of racial segregation from childhood through young adulthood when she became aware of the Freedom Rides and the Civil Rights Movement. She and Millard decided to move to Koinonia Farm in 1968, where they worked on cooperative industries, helped to establish a child development center, and built homes, which provided the seeds for Habitat for Humanity. She goes on to describe the growth of Habitat for Humanity in the United States and internationally, and she explains the religious principles of the organization as well as linking it to the Civil Rights Movement.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0089/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video files of 6 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (128 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (53 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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