- Collection:
- W. W. Law Collection
- Title:
- Interview with Mercedes Arnold Wright, Part 1 of 3
- Creator:
- York, Lisa
Kuhn, Cliff
Wright, Mercedes Arnold - Date of Original:
- 2002-06-08
- 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 - 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: 0:09:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright introduces herself | 0:50:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright describes growing up in segregated Savannah | 7:09:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright describes how W. W. Law got her to join the NAACP | 10:35:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright describes how she became involved in the civil rights movement | 13:56:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright describes how she became known as the 'sweetheart' of the movement | 14:53:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright describes the beginning of the Broughton Street boycott | 17:06:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright recalls her feelings for outing boycott breakers | 19:26:00 - Wear old clothes with new dignity' | 21:31:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright describes organizing the Broughton Street boycott | 27:54:00 - Mercedes Arnold Wright discusses the Levy's Lunch Counter sit-in
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wwlaw_wwlaw-0040
- Digital Object URL:
- http://purl.libs.uga.edu/brown/wwlaw_0040/ohms
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 video file (mp4) : 29 min., 24 sec., sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
Interview with Mercedes Arnold Wright, Part 1 of 3
