- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan in New York, New York, 2010-10-23
- Creator:
- Carter, Robert L., 1917-2012
- Contributor to Resource:
- Sullivan, Patricia, 1950-
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2010-10-23
- Subject:
- African American lawyers--Interviews
Civil rights--United States--Cases
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
African American veterans--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States
African American judges--Interviews
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- 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:
- Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial and his service in the segregated army during World War II. He recounts his career as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including the Brown v. Board of Education case and other legal cases that ended segregation.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0001/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 videocassettes of 3 (DVCAM) (186 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master. 2 photographs : digital, jpg files, color. 1 transcript (87 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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