- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011-05-27
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Anderson, Fletcher, 1938-
Anderson, Cynthia Baker - Date of Original:
- 2011-05-27
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Louisiana--Bogalusa
Discrimination in employment--Louisiana--Bogalusa
Labor unions--Louisiana--Bogalusa
Crown Zellerbach Corporation
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Bogalusa Voters League - People:
- Hicks, Robert, 1929-2010
Hicks, Valeria Payton - Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Washington Parish, 30.85334, -90.04052
United States, Louisiana, Washington Parish, Bogalusa, 30.79102, -89.84869 - 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
application/x-video
image/jpeg - Description:
- Cynthia and Fletcher Anderson remember the segregation and job discrimination they faced in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their decision to join the Civil Rights Movement. Fletcher recalls working many different jobs at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill, the harassment of the police and Ku Klux Klan, and joining the Deacons of Defense and Justice. They discuss their job discrimination lawsuits, their friends involved in the civil rights movement, and the current state of race relations in Bogalusa.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0016/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 video files of 4 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (82 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (39 pages)
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project, (U.S.) (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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