- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Elmer Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seattle, Washington, 2013-02-28
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dixon, Elmer
Cline, David P., 1969- - Date of Original:
- 2013-02-28
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Black Panther Party
Civil rights movements--California
African American civil rights workers--California--Interviews - People:
- Seale, Bobby, 1936-
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
Dixon, Aaron, 1949-
Newton, Huey P. - Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, 47.49084, -121.83583
United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207 - 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:
- Elmer Dixon discusses his childhood in Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington, where he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., and heard Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader Stokely Carmichael speak. At 17 he met Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in Oakland and established, with his brother Aaron Dixon as Defense Captain, the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. Dixon discusses his work with the Panthers, the survival of several of the programs he started, including a health clinic, his work after the Panther chapter closed down in 1978, and his current position as director of an executive consulting firm specializing in diversity issues.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0057/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 11 video files of 11 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (152 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (66 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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