- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Gwendolyn M. Patton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Montgomery, Alabama, 2011-06-01
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Patton, Gwendolyn M, 1943- - Date of Original:
- 2011-06-01
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Freedom Rides, 1961
African American college students--Interviews
Tuskegee Institute
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Interviews
Discrimination in medical care--Alabama
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.) - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997 - 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:
- Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders in 1961, and spending a year in a segregated sanitarium when she had tuberculosis. She recounts organizing Tuskegee students for the Selma to Montgomery March, occupying the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and registering voters in Lowndes County.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0020/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video files of 8 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (111 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (50 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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