Gertrude Newsome Jackson Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.4.1a and 2011.174.4.1b.

Gertrude Jackson recalls growing up in Madison, Illinois, and Marvell, Arkansas. She recalls organizing her community to renovate a local segregated school and becoming involved in the civil rights movement in rural Arkansas. She discusses assisting Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers Howard Himmelbaum and Myrtle Glascoe, working for Head Start, and starting a community center. Jackson's grandson is also interviewed. He joins her towards the end of file #2.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: November 22, 2011
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Gertrude Newsome Jackson, American, born 1923
• Interviewed by: LaFleur Paysour
• Subject of: Myrtle Gonza Glascoe, American, 1936 - 2019
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Subject of: Howard Himmelbaum, American
• Subject of: Head Start Program, American, founded 1965
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 57 min., 1 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 178.77 GB
• Place collected: Marvell, Phillips County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Madison, St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Segregation
• Object number: 2011.174.4.1ab
• 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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