- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Mildred Pitts Walter oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Mateo, California, 2013-03-01
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Walter, Mildred Pitts - Date of Original:
- 2013-03-01
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Congress of Racial Equality
Civil rights movements--California
African American civil rights workers--California--Interviews
Discrimination in housing--California--Los Angeles
African American women authors--Interviews - People:
- Walter, Earl, d. 1965
- Location:
- United States, California, San Mateo County, 37.43621, -122.35566
United States, California, San Mateo County, San Mateo, 37.56299, -122.32553 - 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:
- Mildred Pitts Walter discusses her early life in Louisiana, attending Southern University, and moving to Los Angeles in 1944. Pitts recalls meeting Earl Walter whom she married two years later, her work with Earl who headed the Los Angeles chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1951 to 1963, CORE pickets of housing developers in Los Angeles, and her work as a clerk in the LA school district while getting her teaching credentials. She also discusses her career writing over 20 books for children, her work with a national association of nurses to develop culturally sensitive training, marching in the Soviet Union for peace, her ideas about civil rights and human rights.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0059/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video files of 5 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (91 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (36 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
