- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Kay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013-08-14
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Tillow, Kay - Date of Original:
- 2013-08-14
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Women civil rights workers--United States--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta
Women labor leaders--United States--Interviews
Service Employees International Union. Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.)
Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.) - Location:
- United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
- 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:
- Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She remembers attending the trials of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers in Cairo, Illinois, and traveling to Ghana in 1962. When she returned to the United States in 1963 she participated in sit-ins in Atlanta, Georgia, and demonstrations in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She discusses her work with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1199, a hospital workers' union, and organizing victories in Pennsylvania. Tillow also discusses her role in the Coalition of Labor Union Women and her current work on health care reform.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0099/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video files of 5 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (73 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (32 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: