Bay Area Movement Veterans Collection, 1977, 2001-2020

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Summary

Creator:
Hartford, Bruce (Civil rights activist)
Abstract:
Two hundred seventy oral histories, conversations, and meetings, documenting the memories and experiences of members of SNCC, CORE, SCLC and Delta Ministry, who were active during the Civil Rights/Freedom Movement, focusing primarily on the period 1950-1970. While the bulk of the recordings were made between 2001 and 2020, the collection includes a 1977 interview of Rosa Parks by Don Jelinek. A portion of the recordings are accompanied by notes and transcripts downloaded from crmvet.org.
Extent:
487 items (341 audio files, one video file, 145 html files.)
31 Gigabytes
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11801

Background

Scope and content:

Two hundred seventy oral histories, conversations, and meetings, documenting the memories and experiences of members of SNCC, CORE, SCLC and Delta Ministry, who were active during the Civil Rights/Freedom Movement, focusing primarily on the period 1950-1970. While the bulk of the recordings were made between 2001 and 2020, the collection includes a 1977 interview of Rosa Parks by Don Jelinek. A portion of the recordings are accompanied by notes and transcripts downloaded from crmvet.org.

Biographical / historical:

The Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement is an organization comprised of civil rights workers who were members of SNCC, CORE, SCLC, and Delta Ministry. Bay Area Movement veteran Bruce Hartford created the Civil Rights Movement Archive in 1999, collecting resources -- including papers, photographs, oral histories and other recordings -- documenting the experiences of Movement veterans, and sharing these on the website crmvet.org.

Acquisition information:
The Bay Area Movement Veterans collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2020.
Processing information:

Audiovisual materials processed by Craig Breaden, November 2023

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2020-0009

Arrangement:

Chronological within series.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Congress of Racial Equality
Delta Ministry
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Civil rights movements -- United States
Format:
Audiovisual materials
Oral histories

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[Identification of item], Bay Area Movement Veterans collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.