- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Myrtle Gonza Glascoe oral history interview conducted by Dwandalyn Reece in Capitol Heights, Maryland, 2010-11-17
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza
Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Date of Original:
- 2010-11-17
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Arkansas
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Avery Research Center
Congress of Racial Equality - People:
- Jackson, Gertrude Newsome, 1923-
Himmelbaum, Howard - Location:
- United States, Maryland, Prince George's County, Capitol Heights, 38.88511, -76.91581
- 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:
- Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work. She remembers joining the Baltimore Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), moving to California, and her work as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in West Point, Mississippi and Phillips County, Arkansas, where she worked closely with Howard Himmelbaum and Gertrude Jackson. She also discusses her work as the director of the Avery Research Center and her opinions on the education of African Americans.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0003/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 videocassettes of 2 (DVCAM) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master. 3 photographs : digital, jpg files, color. 1 transcript (83 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
