Dorie and Joyce Ladner Oral History Interview
Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner, who knew and worked with Medgar Evers, spoke about becoming civil rights activists as yo…
David and Satoko Ackerman, classmates of Jesse Jackson at the Chicago Theological Seminary in the mid-1960s, talked about their participatio… read more
David and Satoko Ackerman, classmates of Jesse Jackson at the Chicago Theological Seminary in the mid-1960s, talked about their participation in a Selma, Alabama civil rights march.
This interview was part of an oral history project on the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century initiated by Congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Library of Congress, and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The interview was conducted at the Library of Congress Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C., by Joseph Mosnier of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with curator Elaine Nichols. close
Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner, who knew and worked with Medgar Evers, spoke about becoming civil rights activists as yo…
The Reverend Joseph Lowery talked about his life and his involvement in the civil rights movement. He was a co-founder o…
Marilyn Hilderth talked about her family’s role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly the work of her mother, who w…
The Reverend Joseph Lowery talked about his life and his involvement in the civil rights movement. He was a co-founder o…