- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi, 2015 December 05
- Contributor to Resource:
- McLaurin, Charles, interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2015
- Subject:
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Delta Ministry
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Mississippi Freedom Project
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
Discrimination in the military--United States
Freedom Rides, 1961
Nonviolence--Mississippi
Racism--Mississippi
Voter registration--Mississippi
Jackson (Miss.)--History
Mississippi--Politics and government--1951
Mississippi--Race relations - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
United States, Mississippi, Sunflower County, Indianola, 33.45095, -90.65509 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Charles McLaurin discusses his work as a Civil Rights activist in the 1950's and 60's. He begins by discussing the racism he experienced growing up and how this shaped his personal and political values. McLaurin mainly describes working with African American voter registration rights issues, SNCC, and the Freedom Riders. He describes how he became a congressional officer for a number of years in Mississippi, working closely with Fannie Lou Hamer as her congressional campaign manager. McLaurin describes his involvement in a range of Mississippi-based protests, as well as his experiences with the judicial system and his personal arrests.
Recorded in Indianola, Mississippi, on December 5, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0121), 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.).
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_crhp0121
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
- Extent:
- 14 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (4:36:56) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0121
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: