Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26
Anne Sobol and Richard Barry Sobol oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 May 26
Sobol, Richard B.,
interviewee
Sobol, Anne Buxton,
interviewee
Mosnier, Joseph,
interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
moving image
videorecording
two-dimensional moving image
Filmed Interviews.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Video recordings.
dcu
2011
monographic
2011.
eng
8 video files of 8 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (121 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (59 pages).
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.
Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at
Recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 26, 2011.
Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
Anne Sobol was a lawyer and wife of Richard Sobol.
Richard Sobol was born in 1937 in the Bronx, New York and married Anne Buxton in 1975. He attended Union College and Columbia University School of Law. He worked as civil rights attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C.
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005
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Sobol, Anne Buxton
Interviews
Sobol, Richard B.
Interviews
Hicks, Robert,
1929-2010
Crown Zellerbach Corporation.
Deacons for Defense and Justice.
Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.)
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Civil rights movements
Louisiana
Bogalusa
Civil rights movements
United States
Discrimination in employment
Louisiana
Bogalusa
Labor unions
Louisiana
Bogalusa
Lawyers
Louisiana
New Orleans
Interviews
Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0015
Civil Rights History Project collection
(DLC) 2012655221
AFC 2010/039: 0015
2015669114
hdl:loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0015
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