- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Thomas Walter Gaither oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011-09-12
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Gaither, Thomas Walter, 1938- - Date of Original:
- 2011-09-12
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Congress of Racial Equality
Freedom Rides, 1961
African American college students--Interviews
Nonviolence--Southern States--History--20th century
Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Hollywood
Civil rights demonstrations--South Carolina--Orangeburg
Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.) - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- 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:
- Thomas Gaither recalls growing up in Great Falls, South Carolina, attending Claflin College, and leading the college's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter. He remembers the student sit-ins in Orangeburg, South Carolina, joining the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and being arrested for protesting in Hollywood, Florida. He discusses organizing the Freedom Rides, his belief in nonviolence, and earning his PhD in biology at the University of Iowa.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0043/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9 video files of 9 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (131 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (63 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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