- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Walter Bruce oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Durant, Mississippi, 2013-03-11
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Bruce, Walter, 1928-
Dittmer, John, 1939- - Date of Original:
- 2013-03-11
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Mississippi Freedom Project
Civil rights movements--United States--Songs and music
School integration--Mississippi--Attala County - People:
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Holmes County, 33.12351, -90.09205
United States, Mississippi, Holmes County, Durant, 33.07513, -89.85453 - 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:
- Walter Bruce shares memories of his childhood in Durant, Mississippi, where his family sharecropped. As a young man he became a carpenter and also a gospel singer. He describes his early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, including his participation in Mississippi Freedom Summer. Bruce was involved in community and political organizing throughout the 1960s, from helping to start health clinics and participating in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to his involvement in sit-ins and marches. Bruce also discusses the process of choosing and running black candidates for political office in the 1960s.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0071/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9 video files of 9 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (85 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (50 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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