- Collection:
- Civil Rights Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Verda Lofton discusses her involvement as a young teenager in a 1965 civil rights march in Spokane
- Creator:
- Lofton, Verda
- Publisher:
- Civil Rights Oral History Interviews, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University, Spokane, Wash.
- Date of Original:
- 2001
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--Washington (State)--Spokane
African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (State)--Spokane
Spokane (Wash.)--Race relations
Elementary schools--Washington (State)--Spokane
Oral history--Washington (State)--Spokane
Civil rights workers--Washington (State)--Spokane
Protest marches--Washington (State)--Spokane
African American teenagers--Washington (State)--Spokane
Demonstrations--Washington (State)--Spokane
Nonviolence--Washington (State)--Spokane
African American civil rights workers--Washington (State)--Spokane - People:
- Lofton, Verda
- Location:
- United States, Washington, Spokane County, 47.62064, -117.40401
United States, Washington, Spokane County, Spokane, 47.65966, -117.42908 - Type:
- Sound
- Description:
- Verda Lofton discusses her involvement as a young teenager in a March 26, 1965 civil rights march in Spokane, Washington. She also talks about the effects participation in that march may have had on her later life.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/cvoralhist/id/17
- Rights Holder:
- For permission to publish please contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335-6691
- Extent:
- audio/x-pn-realaudio
- Contributing Institution:
- Washington State University. Library. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
- Rights:
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