Mildred Bond Roxborough Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of two digital files, 2011.174.2.1a and 2011.174.2.1b, as well as a transcript, 2011.174.2.2.

Mildred Bond Roxborough discusses how she became active in the civil rights movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP magazine, The Crisis. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker and worked in a variety of administrative positions including as director of development.

Julian Bond, the interviewer, was a Civil Rights icon and one of the founders of the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: October 29, 2010
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Mildred Bond Roxborough, American, born 1926
• Interviewed by: Rep. Julian Bond, American, 1940 - 2015
• Subject of: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
• Subject of: The Crisis, American, founded 1910
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 24 min., 26 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 111.62 GB
• Place collected: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: U.S. History, 1933-1945
• Object number: 2011.174.2.1ab
• 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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