- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011-05-26
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Sobol, Anne Buxton
Sobol, Richard B. - Date of Original:
- 2011-05-26
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Civil rights movements--Louisiana--Bogalusa
Discrimination in employment--Louisiana--Bogalusa
Labor unions--Louisiana--Bogalusa
Lawyers--Louisiana--New Orleans--Interviews
Crown Zellerbach Corporation
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.) - People:
- Hicks, Robert, 1929-2010
- Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, 30.06864, -89.92813
United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 29.95465, -90.07507 - 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:
- Richard Sobol discusses his early career as a lawyer in Washington, D. C., his involvement with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, and his decision to move to New Orleans to become a civil rights lawyer. He recalls meeting Robert Hicks of Bogalusa, Louisiana, being personally protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice, and his involvement in many job discrimination cases brought against the Crown Zellerbach paper mill. He also discusses other employment, labor union, and housing discrimination cases he argued. His wife, Anne, is also briefly interviewed.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0015/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video files of 8 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (121 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (59 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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