Audrey Nell Hamilton and JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.44.1a and 2011.174.44.1b.

Audrey Hamilton and JoeAnn Ulmer recall growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, and participating in sit-ins led by Robert Hayling, D.D. at Woolworth's drug store as teenagers. They recall serving a sentence in jail, attending reform school, and meeting Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jackie Robinson.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: September 13, 2011
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Audrey Nell Hamilton, American
• Interview of: JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer, American
• Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
• Subject of: Robert Bagner Hayling D.D., American, 1929 - 2015
• Subject of: F. W. Woolworth Company, American, 1879 - 1997
• Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
• Subject of: Jackie Robinson, American, 1919 - 1972
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 6 min., 20 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 108.45 GB
• Place collected: Saint Augustine, Saint Johns County, Florida, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Prisons
• Topic: Resistance
• Topic: Segregation
• Topic: Social reform
• Object number: 2011.174.44.1ab
• 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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