- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Dallas, Texas, 2013 May 10
- Contributor to Resource:
- Siler, Charles E., interviewee
Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2013
- Subject:
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
African American artists--Interviews
African American civil rights workers--Louisiana--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Louisiana
Civil rights movements--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Participation, African American - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Louisiana, 31.00047, -92.0004
United States, Texas, Dallas County, Dallas, 32.78306, -96.80667 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Charles Siler remembers his early life in Louisiana, including a penchant for drawing that began before the age of two, quitting the Boy Scouts when his troop made black Scouts walk behind the horses in a local parade, and picketing Louisiana's segregated State Library as a senior in high school. He was eventually expelled from Southern University because of his activism. He joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was drafted in 1967 and served in the military in the Vietnam War. He continued his civil rights advocacy as he took a variety of positions at cultural institutions and began a career as a cartoonist. The interview closes with Siler's reflections on identity and the process of learning from those who are ideologically different.
Recorded in Dallas, Texas, on May 10, 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.).
Charles Siler attended Southern University in Louisiana and became a civil rights activist. He also was a Vietnam veteran, museum curator, and cartoonist.
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_crhp0086
- 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:
- 4 video files of 4 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (102 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (46 pages). - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0086
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
