- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Lisa Anderson Todd oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, D.C., 2013-06-24
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Crosby, Emilye
Todd, Lisa Anderson, 1942- - Date of Original:
- 2013-06-24
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Mississippi Freedom Project
Voter registration--Mississippi
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Lawyers--United States--Interviews
Women civil rights workers--United States--Interviews
American Friends Service Committee - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
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- MovingImage
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application/pdf - Description:
- Lisa Anderson Todd shares memories from when she was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteer in Mississippi in 1963 and her recollections of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Todd describes how she was introduced to the Movement during her participation in a work camp at Tougaloo College and how she went on to do voter registration work, first with the American Friends Service Committee in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then with SNCC in Greenville, Mississippi. Todd shares her memories as well as her book research on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. She also describes her college years at Cornell University; her decision to attend law school at Stanford; her interest in civil rights law; and her work as a lawyer and later as an administrative judge.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0093/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video files of 8 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (169 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (67 pages)
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image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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