- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Gainesville, Florida, 2011-09-14
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Date of Original:
- 2011-09-14
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Mississippi Freedom Project
African American college students--Interviews
Voter registration--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Laurel
Black nationalism
American Friends Service Committee. Program on Government Surveillance and Citizens' Rights
Mississippi Freedom Schools
Spelman College - Location:
- United States, Florida, Alachua County, 29.67476, -82.3577
United States, Florida, Alachua County, Gainesville, 29.65163, -82.32483 - 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 Simmons recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Spelman College. She remembers directing SNCC's voter registration and Freedom School, called the Freedom Summer Project in Laurel, Mississippi. She discusses learning about Black Nationalism in New York, the decision in SNCC to expel white members, and her work with the American Friends Service Committee's Program on Government Surveillance and Citizens' Rights to interview members of organizations investigated by the FBI's Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO).
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0049/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video files of 5 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (97 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (43 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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