- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Michael D. McCarty oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 26
- Contributor to Resource:
- McCarty, Michael D., 1950- interviewee
Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2016
- Subject:
- Black Panther Party.--Illinois Chapter
Cointelpro
National Rainbow Coalition (U.S.)
Assassination--Illinois--Chicago
African American civil rights workers--Illinois--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Illinois
Civil rights movements--United States
Community health services
Social justice
Storytellers--United States--Interviews
Storytelling--Social aspects
United States--Race relations--History - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368
United States, Illinois, 40.00032, -89.25037
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Michael "Mac" McCarty talks about joining the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago, IL. He discusses racism in Chicago and the leadership of Fred Hampton of the Party and the beginnings of the Rainbow Coalition that brought together African Americans and Appalachian whites. He recalls the circumstances under which Hampton was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 21 by the COINTELPRO operation of the FBI.
Recorded in Los Angeles, California, on June 26, 2016.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0137), 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.).
Michael D. "Mac" McCarty was born in 1950 in Chicago. As a young man, he attended St. Ignatius College Prep, where he started a Black Student Union, and he was subsequently expelled for his involvement in protests. In 1968, he joined the Black Panther Party as part of the education cadre. He left the party after the assassination of Fred Hampton. He joined the Army in 1972 to avoid being a target of the FBI. After leaving the military, he became an acupuncturist. Since 1992, he has been a professional storyteller.
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_crhp0137
- 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:
- 8 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (1:37:09) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0137
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
