- Collection:
- W. W. Law Collection
- Title:
- Interview with Mercedes Arnold Wright, Part 3 of 3 ; B-Roll footage of still photographs with voiceover
- Creator:
- York, Lisa
Kuhn, Cliff
Wright, Mercedes Arnold - Date of Original:
- 2002-06-08
- Subject:
- Armstrong State College (Ga.)
Segregation in education--Georgia--Savannah
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Savannah
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Savannah
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Savannah
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Savannah
Savannah (Ga.)--Race relations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Savannah Branch (Savannah, Ga.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council
Catholic schools--Georgia--Savannah
Presidents--United States
Race relations--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
Politicians--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:
- 00:00:00 - "W. W. Law is our Henry David Thoreau"| 00:00:50 - The Savannah civil rights movement was entirely volunteer-based| 00:01:29 - W. W. Law remains, at age 79, an active and essential member of the community| 00:02:22 - W. W. Law's impeccable character| 00:02:25 - Advice from W. W. Law on how to handle adversarial situations| 00:03:29 - The Civil Rights Movement could not have succeeded without the participation of white Savannahians.| 00:04:31 - Fighting the segregated school system from kindergarten to college| 00:05:17 - Otis Johnson, Dr. Mason Gordon Robertson, and the Savannah NAACP's desegregation of Armstrong State College| 00:10:07 - Civil rights allies and Mercedes Arnold Wright's family's desegregation of the Catholic schools| 00:14:28 - "The people must lead"| 00:14:38 - W. W. Law meant more to Savannahians than nationally-known leaders of the Civil Rights Movement| 00:16:51 - Things weren't always "lovey-dovey"| 00:18:45 - The importance of education, independence, and self-sufficiency| 00:23:23 - Mercedes Arnold Wright's personal observations about the Movement| 00:24:51 - Meeting President Lyndon Johnson, Shirley Chisholm, and other political and religious figures
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wwlaw_wwlaw-0042
- Digital Object URL:
- http://purl.libs.uga.edu/brown/wwlaw_0042/ohms
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 video file (mp4) : 29 min., 30 sec., sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights: