<I>Gwendolyn M. Patton Oral History Interview</I>
date: label: Date
content: June 1, 2011
name: label: Created by
content: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
label: Interview of
content: Gwendolyn M. Patton, American, born 1943
label: Interviewed by
content: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
label: Subject of
content: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
label: Subject of
content: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, American, founded 1877
notes: label: Description
content: The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.20.1a, 2011.174.20.1b, 2011.174.20.1c, 2011.174.20.1d, 2011.174.20.1e, 2011.174.20.1f, 2011.174.20.1g, and 2011.174.20.1h.
label: Description
content: Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she became involved in many civil rights organizations and was elected student body president. She recalls hosting the Freedom Riders in 1961, and spending a year in a segregated sanitarium when she had tuberculosis. She recounts organizing Tuskegee students for the Selma to Montgomery March, occupying the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and registering voters in Lowndes County.
label: Description
content: LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0020
place: label: Place collected
content: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Lowndes County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Associations and institutions
label: Topic
content: Baptist
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
label: Topic
content: Medicine
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Social reform
label: Topic
content: Suffrage
label: Topic
content: The Black Church
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1961-1969
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Civil Rights History Project
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
label: Movement
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: Movement
content: Freedom Riders
label: Movement
content: Selma to Montgomery Marches
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.174.20.1a-h
objectType: label: Type
content: video recordings
label: Type
content: oral histories
label: Type
content: digital media - born digital
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 1 hr., 51 min., 26 sec.
label: Dimensions
content: Total: 185.43 GB