- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Evans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Richmond, Virginia, 2011-07-07
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Hopkins, Evans D., 1954- - Date of Original:
- 2011-07-07
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
African American prisoners--Interviews
School integration--Virginia--Danville
Black Panther Party - People:
- Seale, Bobby, 1936-
- Location:
- United States, Virginia, City of Richmond, 37.55376, -77.46026
United States, Virginia, Henrico County, 37.45771, -77.29646 - 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:
- Evans Hopkins recalls growing up in Danville, Virginia, and participating in efforts to desegregate public schools and the library. He remembers joining the Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Oakland, California, and working on Bobby Seale's campaign for Mayor of Oakland. He also discusses his imprisonment for car theft and the high rate of incarceration among African American men.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0029/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9 video files of 9 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (118 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (45 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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