- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Gloria Hayes Richardson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York, 2011-07-19
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Richardson, Gloria, 1922- - Date of Original:
- 2011-07-19
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
African American civil rights workers--Maryland--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Maryland--Cambridge
Police brutality
Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (Cambridge, Md.) - People:
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894-1962 - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- 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:
- Summary: Gloria Richardson recalls growing up in Cambridge, Maryland, attending Howard University, and joining Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with her daughter, Donna, after returning to Cambridge and running her father's drug store. She recalls traveling to the South with her family to assist SNCC with voter registration, organizing the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, assisting E. Franklin Frazier with research on African Americans, and marching in a protest where the police used cyanogen gas. She also discusses attending the March on Washington, her involvement with the Nation of Islam, and meeting Malcolm X.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0035/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video files of 5 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (92 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (49 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: