- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011-04-26
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Derby, Doris Adelaide - Date of Original:
- 2011-04-26
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Head Start programs--Mississippi
Voter registration--Georgia
Free Southern Theater
Hunter College
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- 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:
- Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and dance, and traveling to Albany, Georgia, to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with voter registration. She remembers teaching adult literacy in Mississippi with SNCC, starting the Free Southern Theater, and working for Head Start.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0008/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video files of 8 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (111 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (46 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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