- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Johnnie Ruth McCullar oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013-03-09
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-
McCullar, Johnnie Ruth, 1940- - Date of Original:
- 2013-03-09
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Voter registration--Georgia
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- 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:
- Johnnie Ruth Browner McCullar describes growing up in southwest Georgia, attending segregated schools in Sasser, Georgia, and her work in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She was a secretary of the Terrell County Movement and she also participated in sit-ins and helped to register voters. McCullar reflects on the legacy of the movement, noting the changes in social and political life that she has witnessed during her life, but also recognizing present-day challenges.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0065/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 video files of 2 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (62 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (36 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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