- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Harry Blake oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Shreveport, Louisiana, 2013-10-03
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
Blake, Harry, 1934- - Date of Original:
- 2013-10-03
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
African American civil rights workers--Louisiana--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Louisiana--Shreveport
African American clergy--Louisiana--Interviews - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, 32.58017, -93.88235
United States, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, Shreveport, 32.52515, -93.75018 - 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 - Description:
- The Reverend Doctor Harry Blake discusses his childhood on a plantation in Louisiana in the 1930s and 1940s and how he became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Shreveport, Louisiana. Blake joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1960 after he heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., give a speech at Bishop College in Texas, where he was a student. Blake discusses his pastorate at Mount Canaan Baptist Church in Shreveport, how he came to develop a good relationship with local politicians, and the work he continues to do within the context of the civil rights struggle.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0107/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 video files of 4 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (70 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (28 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
