Interview with Mercedes Arnold Wright, Part 3 of 3 ; B-Roll footage of still photographs with voiceover

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: