Hicks Family Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Hicks Family Oral History Interview: Date: June 4, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D..
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The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.17.1a, 2011.174.17.1b, 2011.174.17.1c, 2011.174.17.1d, 2011.174.17.1e, 2011.174.17.1f, 2011.174.17.1g, 2011.174.17.1h, and 2011.174.17.1i.
The Hicks family remembers their childhood in segregated Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their father, Robert Hicks, a local civil rights leader. They recall leading a children's civil rights march in Bogalusa to protest discrimination at Woolworth's, hosting two white civil rights workers, Bill Yates and Steve Miller, and being protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice. THIS INTERVIEW IS CURRENTLY RESTRICTED.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: June 4, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: Robert Hicks, American, 1929 - 2010
- Subject of: F. W. Woolworth Company, American, 1879 - 1997
- Subject of: Bill Yates, American
- Subject of: Steve Miller, American
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 2 hr., 34 min., 42 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 252.48 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: Law
- Topic: Segregation
- Topic: Social reform
- Object number: 2011.174.17.1a-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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