- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Matthew J. Perry oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Columbia, South Carolina, 2011-06-07
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James), 1921-2011 - Date of Original:
- 2011-06-07
- Subject:
- African American veterans--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
South Carolina State College
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American
African American lawyers--South Carolina--Interviews
African American judges--South Carolina--Interviews - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
StillImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
image/tiff
text/xml
application/pdf - Description:
- Judge Matthew J. Perry recalls serving in the military during World War II, and experiencing discrimination during the war. He remembers watching a trial that inspired him to go to the newly formed law school at South Carolina State College. He discusses his start as a trial lawyer in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the famous civil rights cases he argued, joining the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and his admiration for the African American lawyers who mentored him.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0024/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 video files of 3 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (55 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (23 pages)
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project, (U.S.) (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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