- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Richard Orton, June 15, 2016
- Creator:
- May, Meredith
Howard, Jasmin
Orton, Richard - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-15
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Orton, Richard
- 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:
- Richard Orton's family came from Nacogdoches, but he spent most of his childhood in Midland. He went to UNT and then moved to Austin, where he worked at one of the first rape crisis centers in the nation. He also founded an organization to help and educate others about child sexual abuse. Orton is a photographer, which is how he became involved with the Upshaw family, who are the descendants of freed slaves who founded County Line, a community near Nacogdoches. Mr. Orton began a photograph project documenting the community, which is now a book. Mr. Orton described his career helping to found rape crisis centers, working with child sexual abuse victims, and his connections to the County Line community, founded by freed slaves.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth984377/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 7 video recordings (1 hr., 25 min., 3 sec.) : sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
-
