- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Kathleen Cleaver oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011-09-16
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Cleaver, Kathleen - Date of Original:
- 2011-09-16
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American college students--Interviews
Black Panther Party
Police brutality
Black nationalism - People:
- Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- 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:
- Kathleen Cleaver recalls growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, India and the Philippines while her father worked for the foreign service. She remembers dropping out of college to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as a secretary, and witnessing the dissolution of that organization. She discusses meeting her husband, Eldridge Cleaver, joining the Black Panther Party, and organizing against police brutality.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0051/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 10 video files of 10 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (123 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (57 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: