Ann Jimerson Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Ann Jimerson Oral History Interview: Date: July 25, 2016. Created by: National Museum of African American History and Culture, American, founded 2003. Recorded by: Patrick Telepictures, Inc., American.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of 2016.129.9.1a and 2016.129.9.2a: two versions (unedited, and edited) of a single digital video recording.
Ann Jimerson was interviewed as part of the NMAAHC Donor Oral History Collection. Ms. Jimerson donated shards of glass from the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Her family had kept them as a reminder of their commitment to Civil Rights.
In this oral history interview Ann Jimerson recounts moving from the North to Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960s. She discusses her memories of what it was like to be a white child from up North in a liberal family, during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: July 25, 2016
- Created by: National Museum of African American History and Culture, American, founded 2003
- Recorded by: Patrick Telepictures, Inc., American
- Interview of: Ann Jimerson, American, born 1951
- Interviewed by: William S. Pretzer, American
- Subject of: 16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration (2016.129.9.1b): 36.25 min.
- Dimensions: Duration (2016.129.9.2a): 35.22 min.
- Dimensions: 55.06 GB
- Place collected: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Baptist
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Museums
- Topic: Race relations
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2016.129.9.1a-.2a
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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