- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011-05-24
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Hildreth, Marilyn Luper, 1947- - Date of Original:
- 2011-05-24
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council
Civil rights demonstrations--Oklahoma--Oklahoma City
Civil rights movements--Oklahoma
Discrimination in public accommodations--Oklahoma - People:
- Luper, Calvin, 1942-
Luper, Clara - Location:
- United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma City, 35.46756, -97.51643
- 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:
- Marilyn Hildreth describes growing up in segregated Oklahoma and the leadership of her mother, Clara Luper, in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group. She recalls participating in a drug store sit-in as a child, and the success the group had with several restaurants in Oklahoma City. She remembers her mother's leadership in the African American community in Oklahoma, and her involvement in the 1968 sanitation workers' strike.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0012/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 video files of 3 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (33 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (16 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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