Louise Willingham Broadway Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Louise Willingham Broadway Oral History Interview: Date: March 9, 2013. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Louise Willingham Broadway, American, born 1930.
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The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.68.1a and 2011.174.68.1b.
Louise Willingham Broadway shares her experiences of segregated education in Baker County, Georgia, and she discusses the lessons that her parents taught her when she was a child. Broadway describes her experiences as a mother sending her daughter to an all-white school. She also describes her involvement in the Baker County Movement, especially her work for a doctor who treated Freedom Riders.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: March 9, 2013
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Louise Willingham Broadway, American, born 1930
- Interviewed by: Willie James Griffin Ph. D., American, born 1974
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 33 min., 59 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 54.24 GB
- Place collected: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Baker County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Medicine
- Object number: 2011.174.68.1ab
- 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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