Robert McClary Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.64.1a and 2011.174.64.1b.

In this short interview, Robert McClary discusses his involvement in the Southwest Georgia Project. McClary describes attending mass meetings in Worth County, Georgia, and he discusses his work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which consisted of keeping the books, registering voters and informing people about welfare services.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: March 9, 2013
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Robert McClary, American, born 1938
• Interviewed by: Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, American, born 1973
• Subject of: Southwest Georgia Project for For Community Education, Inc., American
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 28 min., 17 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 28.32 GB
• Place collected: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Worth County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Social reform
• Topic: Suffrage
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2011.174.64.1ab
• 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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