- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Market, Tennessee, 2011-09-19
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Carawan, Guy
Carawan, Candie - Date of Original:
- 2011-09-19
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
We shall overcome
Civil rights movements--United States--Songs and music
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Folk singers--Interviews
Civil rights workers--Interviews
Fisk University - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Hamblen County, 36.21715, -83.26666
United States, Tennessee, Jefferson County, New Market, 36.10398, -83.55268 - 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
application/x-video
image/jpeg - Description:
- Candie Carawan recalls attending Fisk University as an exchange student and meeting civil rights activists in Nashville, Tennessee. She discusses meeting Guy Carawan at the Highlander Folk School, the importance of music to the civil rights movement, and Guy's work to record singers involved with the movement. The two perform several songs, including "Tree of Life," "Eyes on the Prize," and "We Shall Overcome."
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0052/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video files of 5 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (54 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (29 pages)
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project, (U.S.) (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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