- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2011-07-15
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Churchville, John Elliott - Date of Original:
- 2011-07-15
- Subject:
- African American lawyers--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American clergy--Interviews
Voter registration--Georgia
Voter registration--Mississippi
Black Muslims--Interviews
Black People's Unity Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.)
N.S.M Freedom Library - People:
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
- Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 39.95233, -75.16379
- 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:
- ohn Churchville recalls growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother's career as a music teacher, moving to New York, and converting to Islam. He remembers joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), registering voters in Americus, Georgia, and in Mississippi. He discusses moving back to Philadelphia, converting to Christianity, and founding the Freedom Library and Black People's Unity Movement
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0033/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 7 video files of 7 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (153 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (73 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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