Williams, Cecil J., 1937- 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

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5 video files of 5 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (117 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (58 pages). Cecil J. Williams remembers his childhood in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and starting his career as a photographer for several African American publications in his teens. He remembers photographing President Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, and other civil rights leaders. He also discusses the Briggs v. Elliot school desegregation case, and his photographs of the Orangeburg Massacre. Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at Recorded in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on June 9, 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.). Cecil J. Williams was born in 1937 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and married Constance Goode in 1959. He attended South Carolina State College and Claflin College, and worked as a photographer. 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 n-us-sc Williams, Cecil J., 1937- Interviews African American photographers South Carolina Interviews Civil rights movements South Carolina Civil rights movements United States Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, S.C., 1968 School integration South Carolina 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_crhp0026 (DLC) 2012655221 AFC 2010/039: 0026 2015669125 hdl:loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0026 dacs DLC 150728 20250607065900.4 18889587 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng