Jamila Jones Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Jamila Jones Oral History Interview: Date: April 27, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Jamila Jones, American, born 1944.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.9.1a, 2011.174.9.1b, 2011.174.9.1c, and 2011.174.9.1d.
Jamila Jones recalls participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a child and forming a singing group at age 11, the Montgomery Gospel Trio, to raise money for the civil rights movement. She recalls helping the Freedom Riders, visiting the Highlander Folk Center, writing a new verse of the song "We Shall Overcome", and founding the Harambee Singers.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: April 27, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Jamila Jones, American, born 1944
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: The Montgomery Gospel Trio, American
- Subject of: Highlander Folk School, American
- Subject of: Harambee Singers, American, founded 1966
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 49 min., 27 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 148.42 GB
- Place collected: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Topic: Social reform
- Topic: U.S. History, 1953-1961
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2011.174.9.1a-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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