- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Hicks family oral history interview in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011-05-27
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Hicks, Charles Ray, 1945-
Hicks, Valeria Payton
Collins, Barbara Maria, 1947-
Burras, Carol Cummings, 1945-
Hicks, Robert Lawrence, 1948-
Hicks, Darryl Robertson
Hicks, Gregory Vincent, 1950-
Hicks family - Date of Original:
- 2011-05-27
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Louisiana--Bogalusa
Discrimination in employment--Louisiana--Bogalusa
Crown Zellerbach Corporation
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Bogalusa Voters League
School integration--Louisiana--Bogalusa - People:
- Hicks, Robert, 1929-2010
Jenkins, Gayle, d. 2002
Anderson, Fletcher, 1938- - Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Washington Parish, 30.85334, -90.04052
United States, Louisiana, Washington Parish, Bogalusa, 30.79102, -89.84869 - 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:
- The Hicks family remembers their childhood in segregated Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their father, Robert Hicks, a local civil rights leader. They recall leading a children's civil rights march in Bogalusa to protest discrimination at Woolworth's, hosting two white civil rights workers, Bill Yates and Steve Miller, and being protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0017/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9 video files of 9 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (154 min.) : digital, sound, color. 2 transcripts (71 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
