- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Walter Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013-06-21
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Tillow, Walter M., 1940- - Date of Original:
- 2013-06-21
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Voter registration--Georgia
Civil rights workers--Interviews
Communists--United States--Interviews - Location:
- United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
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application/pdf - Description:
- Walter Tillow discusses how he joined the Civil Rights Movement as a college student and how that led him into labor and leftist movements. He describes his childhood in New York City and the leftist politics of his parents, as well as how he learned about the Movement as a college student at Harpur College and as a graduate student at Cornell University. In 1963 he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and moved to Fayette County, Georgia where he worked on voter registration drives. He later worked in the SNCC communication office in Atlanta. He describes in detail the movement for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In 1965 he left the Movement to work for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and he later worked for the Communist Party.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0092/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 7 video files of 7 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (108 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (59 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: