- Collection:
- W. W. Law Collection
- Title:
- Interview with Carolyn Coleman
- Creator:
- York, Lisa
Kuhn, Cliff
Coleman, Carolyn - Date of Original:
- 2002-08-07
- Subject:
- Segregation--Georgia--Savannah
Savannah (Ga.)--Race relations
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Savannah
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Savannah
Boycotts--Georgia--Savannah
Discrimination in public accommodations--Georgia--Savannah
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Savannah Branch (Savannah, Ga.)
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Savannah
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Savannah
Boycotts-Georgia--Savannah
African American women civil rights workers
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council
Arrest--Georgia--Savannah - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- moving images
oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Segment timestamps: 0:01:13 - Carolyn Coleman introduces herself.| 0:51:18 - Carolyn Coleman remembers meeting and participiating in sit-ins with Edna Branch Jackson and Mercedes Arnold Wright.| 2:07:00 - Carolyn Coleman remembers meeting W. W. Law.| 3:00:00 - Carolyn Coleman describes growing up in Savannah and the sit-in movement organized by W. W. Law.| 10:43:00 - Carolyn Coleman recalls driving protesters to the Tybee wade-in and getting arrested for it.| 13:30:00 - Carolyn Coleman describes the dynamics between the adult and teen chapters of the local NAACP group.| 16:20:00 - Carolyn Coleman gives her thoughts on charges brought against W. W. Law. | 17:42:00 - Carolyn Coleman describes how Clarence Thomas' grandfather put up his business as collateral to help bail protestors out of jail.| 21:46:00 - Carolyn Coleman describes the struggles growing up in segregated Savannah.| 26:24:00 - Carolyn Coleman describes the influence W. W. Law and the NAACP had on her.
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wwlaw_wwlaw-0039
- Digital Object URL:
- http://purl.libs.uga.edu/brown/wwlaw_0039/ohms
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 video file (mp4) : 30 min., 42 sec., sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
