Barbara Edna Vickers Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Barbara Edna Vickers Oral History Interview: Date: September 13, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Barbara Edna Vickers, American, born 1923.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.46.1a, 2011.174.46.1b, 2011.174.46.1c, and 2011.174.46.1d.
Barbara Vickers recalls growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, working in a shipyard in New York during World War II, and returning to St. Augustine with her husband. She remembers working as a beautician, working with her neighbor, Robert Hayling, D.D. to organize civil rights protests and participating in kneel-ins in segregated churches. She also discusses raising money to build a monument to the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement in St. Augustine.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: September 13, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Barbara Edna Vickers, American, born 1923
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: Robert Bagner Hayling D.D., American, 1929 - 2015
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 58 min., 57 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 97.84 GB
- Place collected: Saint Augustine, Saint Johns, Florida, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Christianity
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Religion
- Object number: 2011.174.46.1a-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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