Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.79.1a, 2011.174.79.1b, 2011.174.79.1c, 2011.174.79.1d, 2011.174.79.1e, 2011.174.79.1f, 2011.174.79.1g, and 2011.174.79.1h.

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland shares how, as a child in Arlington, Virginia, her awareness of racial disparities grew. As a student at Duke University, she began participating in the sit-in movement. She soon moved to Washington, D.C. and joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), which led her to participate in the Freedom Rides of 1961. She describes in detail serving time at Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) with other civil rights activists. Mulholland also discusses attending Tougaloo College and her involvement in the Jackson sit-in movement.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: March 17, 2013
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, American, born 1941
• Interviewed by: John Dittmer Ph. D., American, born 1939
• Subject of: Duke University, American, founded 1838
• Subject of: Howard University Nonviolent Action Group, American, founded 1960s
• Subject of: Mississippi State Penitentiary, American, founded 1901
• Subject of: Tougaloo College, American, founded 1869
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 2 hr., 6 min., 4 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 213.55 GB
• Place collected: Arlington, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Education
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Prisons
• Object number: 2011.174.79.1a-h
• 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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