- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland, 2013 June 27
- Contributor to Resource:
- Zapata, Luis, 1944-2015, interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2013
- Subject:
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
United Farm Workers
Agricultural laborers--California--History
Agricultural laborers--Mississippi--History
Civil rights movements--California
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights workers--United States--Interviews - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, California, 37.25022, -119.75126
United States, Maryland, Montgomery County, Silver Spring, 38.99067, -77.02609
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did with the United Farm Workers and how he ended up moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, for four years where he organized for the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union and helped to register voters with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Zapata also discusses his later involvement in the congressional campaign of Mike Espy as well as his participation in international movements for human rights.
Recorded in Silver Spring, Maryland, on June 27, 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.).
Luis Zapata was an civil rights activist and labor organizer. He worked for the United Farm Workers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, and many other organizations.
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_crhp0095
- 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:
- 6 video files of 6 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (122 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (71 pages). - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0095
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
