Marilyn Luper Hildreth Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Marilyn Luper Hildreth Oral History Interview: Date: May 24, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Marilyn Hildreth, American, born 1947.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of three digital files: 2011.174.12.1a, 2011.174.12.1b, and 2011.174.12.1c.
Marilyn Hildreth describes growing up in segregated Oklahoma and the leadership of her mother, Clara Luper, in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group. She recalls participating in a drug store sit-in as a child, and the success the group had with several restaurants in Oklahoma City. She remembers her mother's leadership in the African American community in Oklahoma, and her involvement in the 1968 sanitation workers' strike.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: May 24, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Marilyn Hildreth, American, born 1947
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: Clara Luper, American, 1923 - 2011
- Created by: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 33 min., 16 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 54.38 GB
- Place collected: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Social reform
- Object number: 2011.174.12.1abc
- 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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