Myrtle Gonza Glascoe Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.3.1a and 2011.174.3.1b.

Myrtle Gonza Glascoe recalls growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her early career in education and social work. She remembers joining the Baltimore Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), moving to California, and her work as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Field Secretary in West Point, Mississippi and Phillips County, Arkansas, where she worked closely with Howard Himmelbaum and Gertrude Jackson. She also discusses her work as the director of the Avery Research Center and her opinions on the education of African Americans.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: November 17, 2010
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Myrtle Gonza Glascoe, American, 1936 - 2019
• Interviewed by: Dwandalyn R. Reece, American
• Subject of: Howard University, American, founded 1867
• Subject of: University of Pennsylvania, American, founded 1740
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Subject of: Gertrude Newsome Jackson, American, born 1923
• Subject of: Howard Himmelbaum, American
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 33 min., 35 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 146.28 GB
• Place collected: Capitol Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: West Point, Clay County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Phillips County, Arkansas, 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: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2011.174.3.1ab
• 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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