- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- William Lamar Strickland oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Amherst, Massachusetts, 2011 September 23
- Contributor to Resource:
- Strickland, William, 1937- interviewee
Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2011
- Subject:
- Boston Latin School (Mass.)
Harvard University
Institute of the Black World
Northern Student Movement
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
African American college teachers--Interviews
African American veterans--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Amherst, 42.36723, -72.51852 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- William Strickland recalls growing up in Boston, Massachusetts, attending Boston Latin High School and Harvard University, and serving as a Marine. He remembers his friendship with Malcolm X, joining the Northern Student Movement, and his work with Vincent Harding and the Institute of the Black World. He also discusses the current research on Malcolm X and his opinions on politics.
Recorded in Amherst, Massachusetts, on September 23, 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 Strickland was born in 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University and worked as a professor of political science and Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0055
- 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:
- 12 video files of 12 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (130 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (56 pages). - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0055
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
