- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- William S. Leventhal oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Segundo, California, 2013-04-13
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel), 1946- - Date of Original:
- 2013-04-13
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
Voter registration--Georgia
African Americans--Relations with Jews
Civil rights movements--Georgia
Civil rights workers--Interviews - Location:
- United States, California, Los Angeles County, 34.19801, -118.26102
United States, California, Los Angeles County, El Segundo, 33.91918, -118.41647 - 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:
- Willy Siegel Leventhal discusses his childhood in California, his experiences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1960s, and his involvement in the Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE). Leventhal describes what it was like to be a Jewish child in a mostly Catholic community and how his childhood experiences informed his later activism and identity. Baseball was especially important to him, as he witnessed the first Jewish and African American ballplayers desegregate the Major Leagues. Leventhal became active in SCOPE during his first year at UCLA, after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visited campus to recruit students. Leventhal describes the SCOPE training in Atlanta, and he shares his memories of living and working in Macon and Americus, Georgia.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0082/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video files of 8 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (182 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (113 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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