- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Chicago, Illinois, 2011 May 23
- Contributor to Resource:
- Parker, Wheeler, 1939- interviewee
Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2011
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Lynching--Mississippi
Trials (Murder)--Mississippi - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Wheeler Parker, Jr., discusses his visit to Mississippi with his cousin, Emmett Till. He recalls the incident at Bryant's store and the night that Till was kidnapped, and Till's funeral in Chicago. He remembers how the murder and publicity affected his family, the reopening of the case in 2004, and efforts to memorialize Till.
Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, on May 23, 2011.
Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
Wheeler Parker was born in 1939 in Schlater, Mississippi, grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and married Marvel McCain in 1967. He worked as a barber, photographer, and pastor. At age 16, he traveled from Chicago to Mississippi with his cousin Emmett Till and witnessed his kidnapping.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0011
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
- Extent:
- 6 video files of 6 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (67 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (39 pages). - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0011
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
