- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Norma Mtume oral history interview conducted bv David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 27
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mtume, Norma, interviewee
Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2016
- Subject:
- Black Panther Party
Cointelpro
US (Organization)
African American women civil rights workers--California--Interviews
Civil rights movements--California
Civil rights movements--United States
Clinics--California
Community health services - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, California, 37.25022, -119.75126
United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Norma Mtume talks about her involvement with the Black Panther Party (BPP); her work in the free medical clinics established by the BPP and her incarceration on trumped-up charges orchestrated by the COINTELPRO initiative of the FBI. She talks of her subsequent work to establish city-wide free health-care programs
Recorded in Los Angeles, California, on June 27, 2016.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0138), 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.).
Norma Stoker Mtume was born in 1949 in San Diego, CA. She moved to South Central Los Angeles at the age of four. After graduating from high school in 1967, she attended Cal State LA and became involved in the Black Student Union and met her first husband, Albert Armour. Through Armour, she became involved with the Black Panther Party. She worked in free clinics in LA and Berkeley in the 1970s. She went on to work for non-profit community health organizations including SHIELDS for Families.
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_crhp0138
- 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) (1:25:12) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0138
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
