- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Rick Tuttle oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Culver City, California, 2013-04-11
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Tuttle, Rick - Date of Original:
- 2013-04-11
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Voter registration--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--Georgia
Civil rights workers--Interviews
United States National Student Association - Location:
- United States, California, Los Angeles County, 34.19801, -118.26102
United States, California, Los Angeles County, Culver City, 34.02112, -118.39647 - 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:
- Rick Tuttle describes his family background and when he first became aware of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides when he was a student at Wesleyan University. As a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he was recruited to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1963 and went to Greenwood, Mississippi, to work on voter registration drives. He also briefly spied on white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan meetings. After being driven out of Mississippi by threats, he joined the Chatham County Crusade for Voters in Savannah, Georgia. Tuttle describes being arrested in Savannah for disturbing the peace and the subsequent trial. Tuttle discusses the work he did after leaving the Movement: as the comptroller in Los Angeles he helped to bring an end to segregation at private clubs and participated in the anti-apartheid movement.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0078/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video files of 6 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (125 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (58 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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