- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- William G. Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Detroit, Michigan, 2011-07-26
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Anderson, William G., 1927- - Date of Original:
- 2011-07-26
- Subject:
- African American veterans--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American
Osteopathic physicians--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Georgia - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Sherrod, Charles, 1937-2022 - Location:
- United States, Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit, 42.33143, -83.04575
- 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:
- William Anderson recalls growing up in Americus, Georgia, serving in the navy during World War II, and his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. He remembers opening his osteopath practice in Albany, Georgia, becoming a leader of the Albany Movement, and supporting protesters from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He discusses his several arrests with King and Abernathy, appearing on Meet the Press, the closing of all public facilities in Albany, and his later friendship with Sheriff Laurie Pritchett.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0041/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video files of 6 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (153 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (56 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: