Items and Collections

Date of Original
1940/1969

Subject
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights workers--United States
African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Racism--United States
Race relations
United States--Race relations
Segregation--United States
African Americans--Segregation
Segregation in education--United States
Segregation in transportation--Southern States
School integration--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--United States
Voter registration--United States
African Americans--Violence against--United States
Labor movement--United States
Nonviolence--United States
United States--Religion

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5

Medium
oral histories (literary works)
interviews

Type
MovingImage

Description
The Civil Rights History Project collection contains oral history interviews with civil rights activists conducted as part of the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009. The interviewees for this project were active in national civil rights organizations and specialized local groups, and represent a wide range of occupations. The video recordings of their recollections cover a wide variety of topics within the civil rights movement, such as the influence of the labor movement, nonviolence and self-defense, religious faith, music, and the experiences of young activists. Actions and events discussed in the interviews include the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), the Albany Movement (1961), the Freedom Rides (1961), the Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965), the Orangeburg Massacre (1968), sit-ins, voter registration drives in the South, and the murder of fourteen year old Emmett Till in 1955.

Metadata URL
http://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

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