Annie Pearl Avery Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

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.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: May 31, 2011
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Anne Pearl Avery, American, born 1943
• Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Subject of: William Lewis Moore, American, 1927 - 1963
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 31 min., 4 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 149.42 GB
• Place collected: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Law
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Social reform
• Object number: 2011.174.19.1a-g
• 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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