- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Barbara Edna Vickers oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida, 2011 September 13
- Contributor to Resource:
- Vickers, Barbara Edna, 1923- interviewee
Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2011
- Subject:
- African American beauty operators--Interviews
African American civil rights workers--Florida--Interviews
Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Saint Augustine
Civil rights movements--Florida--Saint Augustine
Civil rights movements--United States
Monuments--Florida--Saint Augustine - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
United States, Florida, Saint Johns County, Saint Augustine, 29.89469, -81.31452 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Barbara Vickers recalls growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, working in a shipyard in New York during World War II, and returning to St. Augustine with her husband. She remembers working as a beautician, working with her neighbor, Dr. Robert Hayling, to organize civil rights protests and participating in kneel-ins in segregated churches. She also discusses raising money to build a monument to the foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement in St. Augustine.
Recorded in Saint Augustine, Florida, on September 13, 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.).
Barbara Vickers was born in 1923 in Saint Augustine, Florida, and attended Excelsior High School. She was a beautician and civil rights activist in Saint Augustine.
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.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0046
- 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) (59 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (31 pages). - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0046
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
