Gloria Claudette Grinnell Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.83.1a, 2011.174.83.1b, 2011.174.83.1c, and 2011.174.83.1d.

Gloria Claudette Grinnell recounts her participation in the sit-in movement in Richmond, Virginia, when she was a student at Virginia Union University. She describes her family's history on the East Coast and explains how she and her mother ended up in San Francisco. She discusses her decision to move from California to attend Virginia Union. She describes the sit-in movement that she joined in 1960. She discusses returning to California and her career with the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: April 14, 2013
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Gloria Claudette Grinnell, American, born 1939
• Interviewed by: David P. Cline Ph. D., American, born 1969
• Subject of: Virginia Union University, American, founded 1865
• Subject of: Los Angeles Unified School Disctrict, American, founded 1961
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 6 min., 45 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 110.94 GB
• Place collected: Ojai, Ventura County, California, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Richmond, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Education
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Social reform
• Object number: 2011.174.83.1a-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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