- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Seattle, Washington, 2013-05-12
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Branch, Taylor
Russell, Bill, 1934- - Date of Original:
- 2013-05-12
- Subject:
- African American basketball players--Interviews
Discrimination in sports--United States
Boston Celtics (Basketball team) - Location:
- 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
application/x-video
image/jpeg - Description:
- Basketball player Bill Russell remembers his childhood in Louisiana and Oakland, California, in the 1940s. After winning two Final Fours with the University of San Francisco, he won an Olympic gold medal and an NBA championship playing for the Boston Celtics, one of thirteen Russell would win, including eight in a row. Russell had a difficult relationship with the sports media in Boston, but a better one with his Celtics teammates. He defends the organization as progressive on racial matters (as opposed to the Red Sox) and describes a post-retirement reconciliation with Boston that resulted in considerable Red Sox support for his mentoring organization and a statue of him, erected in 2013.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0088/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 11 video files of 11 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (187 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (60 pages)
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
