Alfred Moldovan, MD Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Alfred Moldovan, MD Oral History Interview: Date: July 19, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Alfred Moldovan MD, American, born 1921.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.36.1a, 2011.174.36.1b, 2011.174.36.1c, and 2011.174.36.1d.
Alfred Moldovan, MD remembers growing up in the Bronx and the influence of his parents, who were Jewish Hungarian immigrants. He recalls serving in the air force as a radio repairman during World War II and later attending medical school. He discusses founding the Medical Committee for Human Rights and traveling to the South to assist injured civil rights activists at events such as the Selma to Montgomery March.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: July 19, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Alfred Moldovan MD, American, born 1921
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: United States Air Force, American, founded 1947
- Subject of: Medical Committee for Human Rights, American, founded 1964
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 58 min., 31 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 154.27 GB
- Place collected: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Immigration
- Topic: Judaism
- Object number: 2011.174.36.1a-d
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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