Courtland Cox Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.30.1a, 2011.174.30.1b, 2011.174.30.1c, 2011.174.30.1d, 2011.174.30.1e, 2011.174.30.1f, 2011.174.30.1g, 2011.174.30.1h, and 2011.174.30.1i.

Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merged with other groups to become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also discusses the March on Washington, the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, changes in SNCC, and attending the Sixth Pan-African Congress.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: July 8, 2011
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Courtland Cox, American, born 1941
• Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
• Subject of: Howard University, American, founded 1867
• Subject of: Howard University Nonviolent Action Group, American, founded 1960s
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Subject of: 1964 Democratic National Convention, American, founded 1964
• Subject of: Sixth Pan-African Congress, founded 1974
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 43 min., 40 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 171.5 GB
• Place collected: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, South America
• Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Education
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Social reform
• Object number: 2011.174.30.1a-i
• 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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