- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Gertrude Newsome Jackson oral history interview conducted by LaFleur Paysour in Marvell, Arkansas, 2010-11-22
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jackson, Gertrude Newsome, 1923-
Paysour, LaFleur - Date of Original:
- 2010-11-22
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Arkansas
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Arkansas--Interviews
African American farmers--Arkansas--Interviews
Head Start programs--Arkansas - People:
- Himmelbaum, Howard
Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, Phillips County, 34.42829, -90.84802
United States, Arkansas, Phillips County, Marvell, 34.55566, -90.91289 - 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:
- Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in rural Arkansas. She discusses assisting Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers Howard Himmelbaum and Myrtle Glascoe, working for Head Start, and starting a community center. Jackson's grandson is also interviewed.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0004/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 videocassettes of 2 (DVCAM) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master 3 photographs : digital, jpg files, color. 1 transcript (102 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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