- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Charlotte Stokes, June 24, 2016
- Creator:
- Howard, Jasmine
May, Meredith
Stokes, Charlotte - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-24
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Stokes, Charlotte
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Nacogdoches County, Nacogdoches, 31.60351, -94.65549
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Mrs. Stokes was born and raised in Nacogdoches. She is the daughter of Arthur Weaver, the founder of the NAACP in Nacogdoches. She then became a teacher in Washington DC and St. Louis. She returned to Nacogdoches in the late 1970s, where she worked at Head Start. Retired now, she is active in civic organizations, particularly the annual Juneteenth celebration. In her interview, Mrs. Stokes describes her childhood in Nacogdoches, the difficulties of segregation, her father's activism, and the community activism she's been involved in in Nacogdoches since her return in the 1970s.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth984050/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video recordings (1 hr., 11 min., 12 sec.) : sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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