- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- William Saunders oral history interview conducted by Kieran Walsh Taylor in Charleston, South Carolina, 2011 June 09
- Contributor to Resource:
- Saunders, William, 1935- interviewee
Taylor, Kieran Walsh, interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2011
- Subject:
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
African American civil rights workers--South Carolina--Interviews
African American veterans--Interviews
Civil rights movements--South Carolina
Civil rights movements--United States
Discrimination in the military--United States
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969
Korean War, 1950-1953--Participation, African American - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
United States, South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, 32.77657, -79.93092 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- William Saunders remembers his childhood on Johns Island, South Carolina, and working with Esau Jenkins, a local civil rights leader. He recalls serving in the army during the Korean War, attending the Highlander Folk School, and working at a mattress factory. He also discusses founding the "Lowcountry Newsletter," helping the workers in the Charleston Hospital Strike of 1969, and running unsuccessfully for the state senate.
Recorded in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 9, 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.
William Saunders was born 1935 in New York, New York, married Henrietta Jenkins, and had 10 children. He attended Southern Business College, Southern Illinois University Vocational Education, and the University of Nevada. He worked as a politician and CEO of Committee on Better Racial Assurance Human Services Agency.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0027
- 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:
- 4 video files of 4 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (84 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (49 pages) - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0027
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
