- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Robert Bagner Hayling oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida, 2011-09-14
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Hayling, Robert Bagner - Date of Original:
- 2011-09-14
- Subject:
- African American veterans--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American
Civil rights movements--Florida--Saint Augustine
African American civil rights workers--Florida--Interviews
Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Saint Augustine
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Florida--Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine (Fla.)--Anniversaries
African American dentists--Interviews
Meharry Medical College. School of Dentistry - Location:
- United States, Florida, Saint Johns County, 29.91218, -81.40989
United States, Florida, Saint Johns County, Saint Augustine, 29.89469, -81.31452 - 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:
- Robert Hayling recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental practice in St. Augustine, Florida, leading the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and the exclusion of African Americans from St. Augustine's 400th anniversary celebration, and being attacked by the Ku Klux Klan. He also discusses resigning from the NAACP, the support of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for local protests, and his move to Cocoa, Florida.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0048/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video files of 6 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (115 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (45 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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