- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011-07-08.
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Cox, Courtland, 1941- - Date of Original:
- 2011-07-08
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American college students--Interviews
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Voter registration--Alabama
Pan African Congress
Howard University. Nonviolent Action Group
Howard University
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.) - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- 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:
- Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merged with other groups to become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses the March on Washington, the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, changes in SNCC, and attending the Sixth Pan-African Congress.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0030/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9 video files of 9 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (104 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (46 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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