Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s Search this
William Lewis Moore, American, 1927 - 1963 Search this
Medium:
digital
Dimensions:
Duration: 1 hr., 31 min., 4 sec.
Total: 149.42 GB
Type:
video recordings
oral histories
digital media - born digital
Place collected:
Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted:
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Date:
May 31, 2011
Description:
The oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.19.1a, 2011.174.19.1b, 2011.174.19.1c, 2011.174.19.1d, 2011.174.19.1e, 2011.174.19.1f, and 2011.174.19.1g.
Annie Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeting in Atlanta and being stranded and threatened in Marietta, Georgia, on the way home. She discusses her involvement in the Albany Movement, her many arrests for protesting, marching with William Moore, and participating in voter registration drives in many locations across the South.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
