- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Robert McClary oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia, 2013 March 09
- Contributor to Resource:
- McClary, Robert, 1938-2017, interviewee
Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973- interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2013
- Subject:
- Southwest Georgia Project
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Georgia
Civil rights movements--United States
Voter registration--Georgia - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- In this short interview, Robert McClary discusses his involvement in the Southwest Georgia Project. McClary describes attending mass meetings in Worth County, Georgia, and he discusses his work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Along with keeping the books, he registered voters and informed people about welfare services.
Recorded in Albany, Georgia, on March 9, 2013.
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.).
Robert McClary was a civil rights activist with the Southwest Georgia Project in Worth County, Georgia.
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_crhp0064
- 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:
- 2 video files of 2 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (28 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (14 pages). - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0064
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
