Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson Oral History Interview: Date: May 27, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Cynthia Baker Anderson, American.
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The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.16.1a, 2011.174.16.1b, 2011.174.16.1c, and 2011.174.16.1d.
Cynthia and Fletcher Anderson remember the segregation and job discrimination they faced in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their decision to join the civil rights movement. Fletcher recalls working many different jobs at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill, the harassment of the police and Ku Klux Klan, and joining the Deacons of Defense and Justice. They discuss their job discrimination lawsuits, their friends involved in the civil rights movement, and the current state of race relations in Bogalusa.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: May 27, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Cynthia Baker Anderson, American
- Interview of: Fletcher Anderson, American, born 1938
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: Ku Klux Klan, 3rd, American, founded 1946
- Subject of: Deacons for Defense and Justice, American, founded 1964
- Subject of: Crown Zellerbach Corporation, American, founded 1928
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 22 min., 9 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 136.92 GB
- Place collected: Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Law
- Topic: Race relations
- Object number: 2011.174.16.1a-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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