Robert L. Carter Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Robert L. Carter Oral History Interview: Date: October 22, 2010. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Robert L. Carter, American, 1917 - 2012.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of three digital files 2011.174.1.1a, 2011.174.1.1b, 2011.174.1.1c. There is also a transcript of the interview 2011.174.1.2.
A digital oral history interview with Robert L. Carter that recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial and his service in the segregated army during World War II. He recounts his career as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including the Brown v. Board of Education case and other legal cases that ended segregation.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: October 22, 2010
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Robert L. Carter, American, 1917 - 2012
- Interviewed by: Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan, born 1950
- Subject of: Lincoln University, American, founded 1866
- Subject of: Howard University School of Law, American, founded 1869
- Subject of: Columbia University, American, founded 1754
- Subject of: Marian Anderson, American, 1897 - 1993
- Subject of: United States Army, American, founded 1775
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 3 hr., 5 min., 50 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 275.99 GB
- Place collected: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Law
- Topic: U.S. History, 1953-1961
- Topic: World War II
- Object number: 2011.174.1.1abc
- 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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