Richard Barry Sobol and Anne Buxton Sobol Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.15.1a, 2011.174.15.1b, 2011.174.15.1c, 2011.174.15.1d, 2011.174.15.1e, 2011.174.15.1f, 2011.174.15.1g, and 2011.174.15.1h.

Richard Sobol discusses his early career as a lawyer in Washington, D. C., his involvement with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, and his decision to move to New Orleans to become a civil rights lawyer. He recalls meeting Robert Hicks of Bogalusa, Louisiana, being personally protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice, and his involvement in many job discrimination cases brought against the Crown Zellerbach paper mill. He also discusses other employment, labor union, and housing discrimination cases he argued. His wife, Anne, is also briefly interviewed.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: May 26, 2011
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Richard Barry Sobol, American, born 1937
• Interview of: Anne Buxton Sobol, American
• Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
• Subject of: Robert Hicks, American, 1929 - 2010
• Subject of: Deacons for Defense and Justice, American, founded 1964
• Subject of: Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, American
• Subject of: Crown Zellerbach Corporation, American, founded 1928
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 2 hr., 1 min., 7 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 201.77 GB
• Place collected: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Housing
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Law
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2011.174.15.1a-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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