Annie Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Selma, Alabama, 2011 May 31
Avery, Annie Pearl,
1943-
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
7 video files of 7 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (91 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (45 pages).
Annie Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeting in Atlanta and being stranded and threatened in Marietta, Georgia, on the way home. She discusses her involvement in the Albany Movement, her many arrests for protesting, marching with William Moore, and participating in voter registration drives in many locations across the South.
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Recorded in Selma, Alabama, on May 31, 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 Pearl Avery was born in 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She married Harrison Avery, had two children, and worked as a dishwasher in the 1960s. Avery was a civil rights activist and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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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Avery, Annie Pearl,
1943-
Interviews
Moore, William Lewis,
1927-1963
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
Civil rights movements
United States
Civil rights workers
Alabama
Interviews
Freedom Rides, 1961
Voter registration
Alabama
Voter registration
Georgia
Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
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Civil Rights History Project collection
(DLC) 2012655221
AFC 2010/039: 0019
2015669118
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DLC
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