Clifford Browner Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Clifford Browner Oral History Interview: Date: March 9, 2013. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Clifford Browner, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.61.1a and 2011.174.61.1b.
Clifford Browner discusses his childhood in Sasser, Georgia, and how he came to be involved in the Southwest Georgia Movement for civil rights in the early 1960s. He describes mass meetings at Mount Olive Baptist Church, protesting racial segregation at his high school, and participating in the March on Washington. He concludes the interview by evaluating the changes he has seen in southwest Georgia over his lifetime.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: March 9, 2013
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Clifford Browner, American
- Interviewed by: Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, American, born 1973
- Subject of: Southwest Georgia Project for For Community Education, Inc., American
- Subject of: Mt. Olive Baptist Church, American
- Subject of: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 5 min., 31 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 66 GB
- Place collected: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Sasser, Terrell County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Baptist
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Segregation
- Topic: Social reform
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2011.174.61.1ab
- 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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