- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Cecilia Suyat Marshall oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, D.C., 2013-06-30
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Crosby, Emilye
Marshall, Cecilia, 1928- - Date of Original:
- 2013-06-30
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Women civil rights workers--United States--Interviews - People:
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
- Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- 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:
- Cecilia Suyat Marshall recalls moving from Hawaii to New York where she found a job as a secretary with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1948. Marshall notes some of the highlights of her experiences at the NAACP offices, including the organization's victory in the Brown v. Board case, traveling the South with NAACP staff, and attending conferences. There she met the many local people who gave the Civil Rights Movement strength. She left the organization after her marriage to Thurgood Marshall, and with that departure became more of a mother and wife than an activist, but retained her activist spirit with membership on the boards of progressive organizations.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0097/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video files of 6 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (31 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (20 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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